Bush's Legacy: Conservatives Were Betrayed

Editorial - January 19th, 2009 - NewsMax

The best that can be said of President Bush is that he kept America’s homeland safe. During his watch, we did not experience another terror attack on U.S. soil after Sept. 11.

It is a laudable fact, but one that came at enormous financial cost and an erosion of personal freedoms. Still, for all the talk about al-Qaida’s weakened state, Osama bin Laden remains at large despite Bush’s pledge to capture him “dead or alive.”

And if a major terror attack were to take place under the new Obama administration, his supporters will be quick to pin the blame on the Bush regime.

The blame will stick too, since the overwhelming majority of the press will hammer this accusation endlessly.

The unintended consequences of Bush actions will be felt forever. George W. Bush has been the primary cause of turning America into a socialist tyranny. Bush did this by destroying the reputation of the Republican Party. He also leaves Republicans torn apart and warring over the party's philosophical direction by his impostor stance as a conservative.

Even last night, I was sickened by the number of people who were willing to laud Bush for commuting the sentences of Ramos and Campeon rather than pardoning them. Bush still does not understand that this was a political prosecution. Bush is proud of the fact that he has never seen the attacks against conservatives and conservative principals as "personal". I just wish a few more Republicans were conservative enough to be offended by this. Then maybe it would be more obvious that Bush never was conservative. He didn't take the attacks personally because he didn't care if our nation became a socialist tyranny. He did not care if Democrats lied about other conservatives because he was never one himself.

Bush has betrayed almost everyone who ever supported him, and betrayed our country in the process.