The Right Kind of Change
Robert Novak is pleased with Josh Bolten's personnel changes in the wake of his becoming President Bush's chief of staff -- and actually has the grace (all too rare in the punditry business) to admit that his initial impression of Bolten's potential was mistaken.
He also concludes with a nugget of great insight:
The conventional wisdom is that the Democrats want to highlight Bush in nationalized midterm elections while Republicans want to hide him and let the party's congressional candidates run on their own. But the president of the United States cannot hide.
Absolutely. Republicans are making a dreadful mistake if they act ashamed of President Bush -- because doing so suggests that there is something to be ashamed of, and that implicitly validates every ridiculous accusation that every loony leftist has conjured up in the past year and a half.
Have mistakes been made in Iraq and elsewhere? Of course -- but they're neither of the sort nor the magnitude that Democratic propaganda would suggest. And if Republicans think they can save their electoral hides by cravenly running from President Bush, they've lost their minds. Republicans are in this together, and can best avoid an electoral debacle by making a spirited defense of Republican policy, especially in the war on terror.
Taking the offense against an opportunist policy-free group of aspiring peaceniks (a la Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean) draws instructive contrasts and reminds the American people that the Democrats simply can't be trusted, either with foreign policy in general or keeping the country safe in particular.
He also concludes with a nugget of great insight:
The conventional wisdom is that the Democrats want to highlight Bush in nationalized midterm elections while Republicans want to hide him and let the party's congressional candidates run on their own. But the president of the United States cannot hide.
Absolutely. Republicans are making a dreadful mistake if they act ashamed of President Bush -- because doing so suggests that there is something to be ashamed of, and that implicitly validates every ridiculous accusation that every loony leftist has conjured up in the past year and a half.
Have mistakes been made in Iraq and elsewhere? Of course -- but they're neither of the sort nor the magnitude that Democratic propaganda would suggest. And if Republicans think they can save their electoral hides by cravenly running from President Bush, they've lost their minds. Republicans are in this together, and can best avoid an electoral debacle by making a spirited defense of Republican policy, especially in the war on terror.
Taking the offense against an opportunist policy-free group of aspiring peaceniks (a la Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean) draws instructive contrasts and reminds the American people that the Democrats simply can't be trusted, either with foreign policy in general or keeping the country safe in particular.
posted by LadybugUSA at 9:54 PM
3 Comments:
Voters should show their support for Saddam and Bin Laden and vote for the dems party of retreat.
I doubt that anyone is trying to erase the toll of innocents, Sven. But there's something immoral about forcing such images in the faces of those who support the tough decision to stay the course. We did not start this. We're merely seeking to put an end to it. Amber's choice of words is unfortunate. But our forces go out of their way to minimize collateral damage and often at their own risk. No one is cool with the death or maiming of innocents. But there will be more and ongoing deaths and maimings if the scum we are fighting are allowed to prevail. How does your moral calculus deal with that?
Sven, go here and check out some Face of the Enemy that you and the MSM hide from Americans.
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