Bush Looks Back

by Byron York & Rich Lowry - December 8th, 2008 - National Review

"Conservatives will rebound,” President Bush said during an Oval Office interview Friday, but only with “new blood,” “new ideas,” and a “new wave” of leadership. In a candid exchange during an hour-long session with National Review editors and writers, the president conceded that his eight years in office have sometimes been tough for conservatives, but said his philosophy of “compassionate conservatism” is still the guiding belief of a majority of Americans.

Tough for conservatives? How about tough for America.

Does George W. Bush actually believe that the disastrous economy is not the fault of 8 years of spending like a drunken sailor? Does George W. Bush actually believe that the corruption, waste and pork that happened on his watch is not his fault? Does George W. Bush actually believe that "compassionate conservative" is not simply a semantic renaming of the socialism that he has practiced? It is socialism "light" maybe, but it is still socialism ... and still tyranny.

Bush may be right that the American people have decided to abandon the greatest economic system, free enterprise, and protector of individual liberty, constitutional rights, ever invented and become one more failed socialist state that allows tyrannical bureaucrats to destroy individuals with impunity. That does not make it right ... or conservative.

The problem is that the inarticulate retard does not have a clue what conservatism really means. Liberty. Freedom. These are concepts beyond his understanding. He still does not understand why the hard core socialists hate his guts. You have to concede Bush is a patriot. That alone means the real socialists, who want a global society, will berate anything he does. No matter how many times they have insulted him and denounced him, he keeps reaching out to the socialists to be his friend. It will never happen. Why can't he see that?

If Bush had not botched the war against Islamo-fascism I might even feel some empathy for his plight. However he allowed the left to claim Iraq was a separate war, almost causing defeat on that front. His failure to communicate what the war was about also lost the American people ... who turned against Republicans over this one issue of Iraq.

Now the American people have elected the stealth socialist, Barack Obama. The surge towards tyranny is unstoppable while some Republicans still hope for socialism light to become fashionable again. Bush still does. I ifnd that amazing.