"W" Too Nice To Be President?

by Larrey Anderson - December 1st, 2008 - American Thinker

The Bush administration was a near disaster even when the president stuck to his "compassionate conservative" principles. Bush spent the first few years of the war in Iraq conducting a "kinder and gentler" conflict. (Remember all of those months when the Islamofascists ran Fallujah?) If not for the absolute strategic necessity of the very late "surge" the war would have been lost.

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In short, almost nothing good was accomplished during the Bush Administration -- either for conservatives or for America. Let us no longer fool ourselves. Let us stop defending the indefensible. George W. Bush was no conservative. And he was too nice to be president.

The only real question is whether we have waited too late. There is a real question as to whether the hostility to conservatives and libertarians, the gullibility of the young me-me-me generation and the relentlessly adoring Bush acolytes among the social conservatives have left us with any chance to turn the nation around before government is so powerful that freedom and liberty has no chance. What do you think?