victory_sml.jpe

The Anchoress has expressed tonight what I have been thinking but couldn’t put into words recently because it would have taken too many words and too much time and I didn’t have either.

I think best when I am not at the computer keyboard. It’s usually when I am taking a shower. Keyboards don’t work well in there. But I have been processing what I have been reading on some “conservative” blogs and some of it has been unbelievably negative.

Some of the most negative, defeatist stuff I’ve read recently has come from the likes of some of the best bloggers in the blogosphere. When I read that conservative blogger, La Shawn Barber actually proposed impeaching President Bush over his immigration policy I thought it had to be a joke but it wasn’t. La Shawn has a right to think and blog about whatever she wants but so do I.

What Barber proposed was hysterical, overwrought and terribly insulting. I take it personally because unlike La Shawn, I have a big stake in President Bush’s presidency. I have a son and brother who are going to war.

But worse than any perceived insult to her fellow conservatives, La Shawn’s insulted the very man who is fighting this war on her behalf and mine. That’s about as far as I can go in my comments. I don’t want to get ugly.

So here, in her fearless clarity are the words of The Anchoress.

When Clinton was being waylaid, his party closed ranks. Now Bush - a good man despite his flaws, (and what president is not flawed) is being attacked on all sides, and his party just jumps in with both feet and kicks away. It just doesn’t seem right to me.

And I know, I KNOW…he’s been a job to defend for all these years against unprecedented attacks - I’m tired, too. But I cannot go along with the “get Bush” mentality from the right. The question I keep asking myself is…right now, at this moment in time, who is BETTER than him? Giuliani? The religious right will never go for him.

Allen? Mush-mouthed bore, the religious right will love him, and the rest will turn the page, and neither of them will be elected in this atmosphere - and if they could be, it won’t be for two more years. Bush is what we’ve got, the best we’ve got…but you know, maybe he’s too punch drunk, after 6 years of abuse, and a feckless party that squanders its majority again and again…one year ago, on May 10, he was dancing with free Georgians…but none of that counts, anymore, right? We forget the good stuff pretty easily, it seems to me.

There is much more. Read it.

Point Five wonders how happy all those pissed off conservatives will be when the Democrats are in charge.

Hat tip: My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy