GOP Nominee
Former Candidates
By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority Report and The HinzSight Report
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Gamecock watches in agony as Republicans and even conservatives like Sean-bound by the TV sound bite attention deficit disorder and obsessed with the low level sin of hypocrisy while American values get slaughtered-Hannity, once again miss opportunities to advance a Reaganite WINNING agenda, defending American institutions.
Whether its:
(a) ignoring Obama’s huge and egregious sin attacking the mortgage industry that has helped Americans (overall, blacks and other minorities) achieve record levels of home ownership (see America Dream) only to focus on the puny sin of hypocrisy while aiding and abetting the unfounded smear of good man named Johnson;
(b) surrendering unilaterally to the Church of Goreman-made Global Warming’s attack on American industry and the energy that makes modern civilization and liberty possible, all in the name of saving polar bears, whose population now is at record numbers; or
(c) accepting the left’s narratives without a fight over Saddam’s ties to terrorists and wmd threat despite President Clinton’s eloquent statements in the 1990s thru President Bush’s “new tone” appeasement of Ted Kennedy forsaking black children in the ghetto; Bush and McCain’s tone appeasing La Raza’s demands for their race; and so-called Republican Fiscal Conservatives AWOL status since 1995 [(see Tom Coburn's "Breach of Trust" book and JC Watt's betrayal by Newt Gingrich (also co-staring with Nancy Pelosi in a Gore TV ad near you)].
But speaking of President Bush’s new tone, here is the latest surrender:
President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war
President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a “guy really anxious for war” in Iraq. He said that his aim now was to leave his successor a legacy of international diplomacy for tackling Iran.
In an exclusive interview, he expressed regret at the bitter divisions over the war and said that he was troubled about how his country had been misunderstood. “I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric.”
Phrases such as “bring them on” or “dead or alive”, he said, “indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace”. He said that he found it very painful “to put youngsters in harm’s way”. He added: “I try to meet with as many of the families as I can. And I have an obligation to comfort and console as best as I possibly can. I also have an obligation to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain.”
Mr. President, can we talk?
NOTHING you could have SAID differently would have prevented the attacks on you from the left for daring to call evil by its name and act accordingly.
Well, maybe you could have apologized for “allowing” of even “causing” Muslims to hate and attack us on 911 and for Saddam to violate the (American hero deaths in Kuwait bought) ceasefire.
So, Bush apologizes for not rhetorically surrendering while still enforcing the ceasefire? and then what do the earnest leftist “reporters” do? Why, they continue the lying re-write of history that President Bush just refused to contest when they say:
The unilateralism that marked his first White House term has been replaced by an enthusiasm for tough multilateralism.
Unilateralism?
See Mr Bush, if you just sing the song they write and dance to their tune (or at least with a “new” tone) they will treat you fairly.
NOT!
Wake up GOP. Its up to US, not Bush or McCain.
STOP!
Not Long says this Rooster.
It starts by not missing opportunities. Don’t fall for the trap that we can accept the premises of the left and put a conservative twist on it. Don’t pass up opportunities to make powerful arguments for basic American values for the cheap and lazy MSM sound bite route of “hypocrisy” indignations that never won a single vote.
No. Let’s be like Rush, sitting around minding our own business. Then, the left attacks the institutions and values that made this country great.
Let’s defend the institutions and values rather than follow a media narrative whose main goal is that their narrative and liberalism never let be discredited.
The latest narratives they seek to protect is that America is the cause of evil in the world and that the foreclosed upon homes were due to evil mortgage bankers.
LIES!!!!
Bigger than any hypocrisy.
America is the arsenal of liberty and the reason there is any freedom on Earth.
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“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson
June 11th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Sigh, just more of Gamecock –in all his third person glory– advocating for more of the same… Meanwhile, President Bush’s approval ratings are somewhere south of Nixons and rival Warren Hardings. Oh, and a record number of Americans think we’re on the wrong track. I think you’re a bit out of touch, buddy.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Most Americans are out of touch. We are still the most free and wealthy in the world. It is a disgrace that Americans think that we are on the wrong track. What malcontents!
June 11th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Gamecock:
Isn’t your article advocating basically what the late, great WFB said:
“I desire to stand athwart history and yell “STOP!”
June 11th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I am against more of the same. You need to actually read.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
#3 yes, and more. It says HOW we acheive STOP.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Sampo:
If you think Bush’s approval rating is bad, just imagine what Washington’s was the day the British took Philadelphia.
Or imagine Lincoln’s in the summer of 1864. Perhaps Harry Truman’s numbers after the Chosen Resovoir. Great leaders tell the polls
to go where the sun don’t shine. Bill Clinton let the polls tell him how to make policy. Do we really want to go back to that?
June 11th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
This post was very rant-y, but it is true.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Um, and to that I say: Bush is no “Jack” Lincoln. Guess what? President’s polls have been low because some of them have sucked.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Mr. Bush does not suck. He has protected us from terrorism! If people are too nutty to realize this, perhaps we deserve Mr. Obama as President.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
#8:
I’ll concede that he is no Abe Lincoln, but he maybe the Republican Harry Truman. Give’m Hell Harry had the forsight
to stand up to the Soviets when they blockaded W. Berlin. He announced the Truman Doctrine which kept Greece and
Turkey from becoming Soviet satelite states. He fought the Korean War to check the spread of Communism and now
S. Korea is own of Asia’s great democracies. Since 9/11 there has been no terrorist attack on American soil and
50,000,000 people are free from tyranny. I for one still proudly call myself a “Bush Republican”
June 11th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
If you think 4000 dead soldiers and trillions of dollars spent is worth it, so be it. I happen to think there are more effective ways.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Mike,
While I agree there’s nothing Bush could have said differently that would’ve resulted in him getting a fair shake in the liberal media, I do believe some fence-sitters would’ve been more receptive to his resolute post-9/11 rhetoric had he slightly tweaked the tone of his message. Instead of saying “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”, he could have used more inclusive language, stating “Unless you are with the terrorists, we are all in this together.”
What I found most troubling in that article was Bush irresponsibly conceding that he intends on leaving the task of dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat to his successor.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
There’s nothing Bush can do in his Presidency to rehabilitate his image and he shouldn’t try. The glorious thing about being a lame-duck that no one pays attention to, is that you can stand for something, without worrying how it’ll effect politics. Bush should continue to stand for his vision of the world, albeit quietly. He should leave his image rehabilitation to a President McCain, who’ll get us out of Iraq with victory and therefore vindicate Bush.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I’m not the only one that thinks that Bush’s incompetence has handicapped the 2008 election so badly that it is virtually unwinnable by a Republican. If you guys are so terrified of an Obama presidency, maybe you should blame Bush for making Obama an attractive president.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Aron,
I think Bush wasted his capital in overselling Iraq. He wanted to make it seem easy, completely and utterly necessary, and still in keeping with his promises of a humbler foreign policy. So he said “this is terribly important, otherwise I wouldn’t be doing it. But, we’re not going to be occupiers; gggggggggwe’ll just knock down the government and hand things over to a newly free Iraqi people”. This was a politically broad message; it could be sold to the realists as some sort of crafty calculation of interestes and power necessities. It could be sold to the neo-cons, based on it’s pre-emptive nature. It could be sold to some Democrats, on the basis of it’s liberating aspects. But, it was a fiction, and an unnecessary one. With the capital he had, he could have passed the resolution even if he’d said something like “Look, the post-Gulf War containment of Saddam is collapsing. He’s recalcitrant, and we have reason to believe that he has or is pursuing nuclear weapons. In a post 9/11 world, this is utterly unnacceptable, and frankly, we made a mistake by allowing this tyrant to run free in the first place. Either Saddam wholly submits to our demands, or we’ll have no choice but to change the regime by force. America’s security and the World’s security depends upon it. But, it won’t be easy and we’re going to have to get the Iraqi people back on their feet in the aftermath. That’s going to take awhile, but it’s in our interests, and it’s in keeping with our great tradition of promoting freedom across the world”. This would have been a less appealing narrative, it would have had less support, but it would have been truer, it would have allowed Bush to send something more like the 300k troops we ought to have sent in, and it would have prepared the American people more for the future struggle.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Seriously, why is this person featured on this site? The awkward writing style, the inability to coherently make a point, and the childish third-person rhetorical style are better left for Red State. Oh, and he comes across as a lunatic.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
#12 We disgaree. Many of the fence sitters would have responded to strength, like the strength of gop senators calling out the dems and msm for their unpatrtiotic enemy emboldening speech. Instead they see ’safe” strength in dems that stand up to Bush.
Its tougher to stand up to mean old terrorists. Wouldn’t want to pi*s them off.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
“the dems and msm for their unpatrtiotic [sic] enemy emboldening speech. “
Use hyperbole much?
June 11th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Sampo: If this kind of sentiment was promoted in previous generations, we would not have our country in the first place, we would not have survived the Civil War, WW II or the cold war. Yes soldier die and money is spent. Would you rather lose the whole country? Like it or not, we must fight to survive.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
#12 If you really think that slight change in that one line has anything to do with anything…please.
Bush was RE-ELECTED AFTER he made the 911 and axis of evil speeches. And 2006 was Year Six greivance election in which the out party made the smallest gains in history.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Lets not forget that lefty Hillary Clinton wasn’t a fence sitter —SHE WAS ON BUSH’S SIDE when she authorized him to go to war. 1,000 deaths later she was a fence sitter. 4,000 deaths later she’s in lock step with moveon.org and code pink.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
#18 UBL and Zawahiri and now dead AQinIraq leaders all stated the obvious: the prospect of the surrendercrats gaining power gave them hope. They planned their bombings to influence the dems and the voters here, not to win on the ground in Iraq or anywhere else since they know that is impossible.
btw your (sic) was sic. Study tenses of speech.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwn.
The “sic” was for the spelling…study your terms. You actually believe your own BS.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
#16 Hitting a nerve? R42008 envy? Charlotte Observer envy? DeVine Comedy? et al ad nauseum
Did Faulkner, Joyce and Shakespeare have awkward writing styles?
June 11th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
LMAO - only you could construe that as envy.
And yes, they did have award-winning writing styles.
“Gamecock compares himself to Faulkner, Joyce & Shakespeare! STOP!!”
Carry on…that sinking sensation you’re feeling is you bringing the site down.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
#24:
Hell, I’ve read about 5 of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets and I still barely get them.
“When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.”
Otto von Bismarck
June 11th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooosh.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
#25 Glad to help the humor deficit at the et al Says house, even if he is unaware of who got us on the Instapundit and Hugh Hewitt maps and that we are setting records everyday (with so statistically significant change in the rising graph due to discussions with grade-school hall monitor hobgoblin of puny minds peanut gallery critics-of the unpaid variety I might add)
Get a job man.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
If McCain lose is not because of Bush is just because he is not the best candidate.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Al Qaeda leadership has stated in no uncertain terms that the chaos in Iraq (read the 4 years prior to the surge) has been their greatest recruiting tool. Who’s responsible for that chaos? Bush or Obama?
Incompetence can go a long way in “aiding and abetting” enemies.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
29, i could talk polls, but it’s obvious you’re a poll nihilist.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Sampo:
Where have you been the last two years? The surge as crushed al-qaeda in Iraq. Don’t believe me? Check this out:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/11/guardian-aq-all-but-defeated-in-iraq/
“When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.”
Otto von Bismarck
June 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
#31 AQ has admitted they have lost Iraq and are losing the overall war. Hayden confirms. Wright agrees.
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/gamecock/2008/jun/08/gitmo_in_hinzsight_a_metaphor_for_why_we_are_winning_the_war
June 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
#31 Would a poll that suggested sampo does not exist negate the fact that he does?
June 11th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
politico:
Among the 10 strategists interviewed by Politico for this story, there was near-uniform belief that had any other Republican been nominated, the party’s prospects in November would be nil.
“No disrespect to the other candidates,” said GOP pollster Glen Bolger, “but if anyone else had been nominated we’d be toast.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10585.html
…
But let’s be honest. What does Glen Bolger have on Falz–a peon poster at race42008?
June 11th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
#34 Near uniform belief….[stopped reading after that.] I mean hell, if its uniform, I must also believe it , and so what can I learn by reading further?
June 11th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
32, I was unaware that hundreds of polls existed telling me that I didn’t exist. But I’ve got hundreds of polls showing that McCain was and is the strongest candidate.
June 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
wow you stopped reading after 3 words? then you hacked away at the keyboard, hu? nice attention span.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
“Get a job man.”
LOL! Oh, I have one. And I’m a she not a he, kiddo. You just keep on keepin’ on, Gamecock. Your self-congratulatory style is fodder for a lot of laughs! But who am I to tell you that you’re not brilliant, when you so obviously believe otherwise. LOL.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
et al, I’m with you. The only difference is that I stopped reading his incoherent nonsense long ago.
Usually he doesn’t get any comments, since there’s so little to comment on. It was seeing there were comments that caused me to look in (though I still didn’t read his screed).
June 11th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Gamecock, I’d consider the advice in light of BobH’s #38, which is true.
Your style is so hard to read, usually nobody ends up commenting, implying nobody is reading.
You make great points, though. I think you can keep your unique style while making it more inviting, at least in the first couple paragraphs.
June 11th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
#35 He may be, but we will never know. I eschew these polls and Gore like predictions that we can never test.
June 11th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
#39 It only it were true. It not, even for him! He saw who wrote this and couldn’t resist. Like Rush’s callers that say they never listen or threaten to stop.
I got here without them. Where is here?
Charlotte Observer columns @
http://gamecock.blogtownhall.com/default.aspx
Blogs as Gamecock @
http://www.redstate.com/blogs/gamecock_0 , and
http://www.race42008.com and is Legal Editor for
http://theminorityreportblog.blogspot.com and
http://thehinzsightreport.com/.
“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson
and many jury trial victories later
June 11th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
#39 If only it were true. But its not. Even for him. He saw I wrote it and couldn’t resist reading Gc anyway, But I appreciate your…actually I don’t. Screw peanut gallery critics. Do I critique the commenters? No. I have a life and I’m a Christian!
June 11th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Nos. 36,37 and 38 Better to be hated that not cared about.
Rev 3:16
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
June 11th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
>”He saw I wrote it and couldn’t resist reading Gc anyway,”
No, actually I didn’t read your post — I never do. I checked out the comments because it is so odd to see comments on your posts.
Maybe you should consider taking a high school composition course so that you could learn to organize and express your thoughts in a coherent manner.
June 11th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Gamecock, I will admit that your writing style is rather clunky. :\
And puffing up your chest and comparing yourself to Shakespeare isn’t doing you any favors.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
#43 I don’t believe you.
#44 There is a tide in the affairs of men.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
#44 All your musings are now being mailed to Safire and my 3rd grade teacher for an anal exam.
Meanwhile, this r42008 and Charlotte Observer vet continues to live…
June 11th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
An…anal exam? Was that supposed to be some kind of gay joke?
June 11th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
God, chill out, seriously — I have never seen someone get more goddamn defensive about the slightest bit of criticism.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:25 am
#48 But I didn’t stoop to profanity. Maybe AK is more defensive of criticism of his criticism that your humble Foghorn Leghorn?
Hey, let’s face it, gamecock is not perfect.
Voice vote? Unanimous consent!