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I would also add that any criticism should be made constructively.

How we do in Iraq overshadows all else, so our objective should be convincing fellow Republicans in the defeatist Hagelian wing to oppose phased cut-and-run and support the Petraeus plan.

...in Iraq overshadows everything else. When this country had to make the hard choice of expanding the reach of liberty, freedom, and democracy in the world, this country gagged, choked, and fled from the challenge. The flight to the rear was led by the Democratic Party with White Flag Harry Reid and San Farn Nan Pelosi at point. Quite a legacy to leave your children. It makes one of George C Scotts opening lines in the first scene from "Patton" absolutely patriotic by contrast: "When your grandchildren sit in your lap and ask you 'Grandpa what did you do in the great WWII?' you won't have to tell them 'I shoveled s**t in Louisiana" Americans can just tell them you wanted a better life for yourself, so you went into the bedroom and hid under the mattress.

He is everything that whining, sniveling liberals and RINOs aren't and that is why the hate him so much. He makes them confront the fact that they are inferior human beings.

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

In a 10 minute period, I found a post by A Rational Liberal that I agreed with and a post by Tbone I don't.

I'll back Bush, not that it'll do much good. The guy refuses to fight the Democrats.
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I really think that this is going to be the year that Iraq finally turns around. When it does, Bush's repeated doubling down on the Iraq War is finally going to pay off.

This won't affect the Republican primaries all that much, but it will affect the Dems quite a bit. The winners on that side will be Hillary, who'll be able to say 'Well of course I had my doubts about the Iraq War, almost everyone did', and Al Gore, who has been awfully quiet on the subject of Iraq. Obama will be left flailing for a new position, and the Hillary camp will take that opportunity to finish him off, whereas Edwards will just flail and sink of his own accord.

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This sounds familiar ...

I agree with Hilyer that other Republicans on the national stage are not doing enough to help the President ... but it would be so much easier if Bush did not begin and end his speeches with enervating tributes to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi's sincerity and good will.

He needs to start swinging the sword on his own behalf.

George W. Bush: He's A Folder ... Not A Fighter.

Success speaks for itself. Failure though has to be rationalized and justified. IF the Iraq campaign had turned out as Cheney had promised "we will be greeted as Liberators.." then the we wouldn't be haveing this conversation. As The Great Prevaricator, Bill Clinton, showed us, you can spin and parse anything. Karl Rove and his Gang have taken that to the max. What is winning in Iraq? Will we at best come out with a chauvinistic theocracy? In the US media YOU NEVER HEAR from Iraqi's it's always our spinheads jabbering on. But these people seemingly prefer male dominated Sharia based theocracies, or military dictatorships. Is this what American men and women are fighting for? Do you have freedom in Saudi Arabia? Dubai? Kuwait? Jordan? There is alot of rationalization in this Administration they are FACTUALLY slow to frank acknowledgement.

He has let the dems bring immigration to the top of the list.
This is his weakest issue with the only supporters he has left. His support will now drop into the low 20s at best. He can't carry on a war if that happens. At least he could have held out for Iraq funding before climbing aboard this disaster. In one fell swoop he may have just lost it all.

Business needs it. Consumers need it. America is built upon it. We lionize the "Glorious ole South", " The Great Industrialists"..and now Wal-Mart and the Construction Boom. It's all about cheap labor. It's local communities though that have to deal with the health and welfare needs of this cheap labor force.