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Friday, July 13, 2007
Mike Gallagher :: Townhall.com Columnist
Conservatives Shouldn't Abandon Bush
by Mike Gallagher
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Besides, who really wants to be on the same side of the political fence as Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy…or Betty Williams?

Betty Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for creating a group that helped initiate peace talks in Northern Ireland. This week, she was the keynote speaker at The International Women’s Peace Conference in Dallas. According to the Dallas Morning News, during her speech she told the thousand or so attendees, “Right now, I could kill George Bush.” The paper said she went on to demand his impeachment since “the Muslim world right now is suffering beyond belief” as a result of this administration’s foreign policy.

What a woman of peace. That’s some “peace conference.”

I’m not sure what would happen if an American traveled to Northern Ireland and expressed a desire to kill Mary McAleese, the current President of Ireland. I doubt that such an opinion would be met with cheers and a standing ovation, as was reported had occurred when the Nobel laureate said what she said in Dallas.

And when we tracked Betty Williams down and put her on my radio show, I was shocked to hear her claim that any published report that quoted her as saying, “Right now, I could kill George Bush” was lying. I reminded her that according to numerous published reports, she used the exact same phrase in a July 24, 2006 speech to schoolchildren at the Brisbane City Hall. At that point in the interview, she sounded totally defeated and said she not only “regretted” saying it, when I asked her if she was sorry for saying it, she said she was. In fact, the Dallas Morning News sent me the audio of the speech which confirms their reporting of Ms. Williams comments about the president.

You can hear my interview with this awful woman at www.mikeonline.com.

People like Betty Williams and Michael Moore and Nancy Pelosi and Keith Olbermann and so many others on the left have made it quite clear what they think of George W. Bush. They teem with hatred and contempt.

They sure don’t need to get any assistance from us. Now, more than ever, we ought to stand behind President Bush.

But if people on the left OR right don’t want to support him these days, I have a heartfelt reminder: November of 2008 will be here soon enough.

Until then, how about getting off the president’s back?
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Reply # 1
Date: Dec 3, 2007 - 5:50 PM EST
Boosh
Let's see guys.

1) Bush failed to protect us from Osama bin Laden and 9/11
2) After 9/11 he failed to catch Osama bin Laden
3) Bush led us into the stupidest, most disastrous war in American history, over absolutely nothing
4) He is responsible for a One Trillion Dollar deficit, the largest in American history
5) He did this while cutting taxes for the rich
6) He is personally a coward
7) As are his kids
8) He has been a failure all his life
and
9) He dodged the draft and went AWOL

What should I like?
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Reply # 2
Date: Jul 23, 2007 - 10:39 PM EST
I am not giving up on the President!
I have defended the President on many issues, not the least of which is Iraq. But I don't walk in lock-step with the man either.

I felt he should have vetoed the McCain Fiengold bill because it steps on our right to speak out on political issues.

While I applauded the motives behind the No Child Left Behind bill, I felt and still feel that Education is primarily a State Responsibility. I'd like to see the federal government keep its distance, working more as an outside observer.

I am totally with him when he talks about the reasons we need to stay engaged in Iraq. That doesn't mean I think that we did everything right over there.

What I do know about war I learned in the Marine Corps. I know that wars are fought until one side or the other loses the will to fight. When that side loses their will to fight and quits then the other side wins. It is that simple.

I also know that wars of this sort can go on for decades. History tells us that. The Vietnameze war wasn't just our war, it had been going on for years prior to that with the French.

World War II had been going on for some time before we got involved. We also stayed in Germany and Japan for a long time after the main hostilities ended. We didn't do that for our health.

If only people had a better perspective of history, I think we would be better off.

I am glad that the President commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby. I am sorry that he didn't go all the way and pardon him. That was a political prosecution from the beginning. The President had to know that he would get criticized no matter what he did. I wish he would take off the gloves.

I wish he would pardon the two border patrol agents, Compean and Ramos and I have told him so, if any get through the WhiteHouse comments email.

I am with him on taxes, but wish he would go further and promote the Fair Tax or a Flat Tax.

I think he gave up too easily when he tried to take on the Social Security mess. The present system is a Ponzi scheme if ever there was one.

I agree with him that something needs to be done about immigration, but I think he has his head up his a## on the process. I wish he would put more emphasis on just Border Security and uphold current laws more effectively.

So what do I do? When I disagree with him I let him know as best I can. I also tell him when I think he is right.

I tell people who attack him as stupid or dishonest that, that kind of language hurts us, the country, more than him, because our enemies are listening. I tell them that though they may not realize it, they are doing the bidding of the enemy, that they are useful idiots.

I think their rhetoric tells us more about the accusers than the President.
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