Hi Guys,
After the Miers nomination, what has me somewhat confused is why the left still hates Bush so much. What is it that makes this man seem conservative anyway?
Perhaps its because he's a member of the Republican party? So are Lincoln Chafee and Arlen Specter, and no one has ever accused them of being particularly conservative (incidently Bush supported both of them and AGAINST their conservative oponents - in fact I can't think of a single case where a liberal Republican incumbent has come up against a conservative challenger and the President hasn't backed the liberal).
Ok, so he invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and hasn't raised taxes or been in favor of gun control. So far that qualifies him to be about as conservative as JFK was.
On the other hand though, he's socially moderate, never picks ideological fights with liberals on anything, has grown the government at a rate greater than both Carter and Clinton and spends like a drunken sailor. And now, given a Republican Senate and a Republican Congress and the opportunity to replace two Supreme Court judges - one a relatively Conservative positivist and the other a Moderate positivist judge, he nominates two cyphers whom almost every conservative in America rightly fears will revert to David Souter mode immediately after the President leaves office if not sooner.
Given that Clinton nominated two liberal positivists (including Ruth Bader Ginsberg, probably the most liberal judge ever to sit on the Court) and they both sailed through the Senate with nearly unanimous votes (both also applied the "keep your trap shut" methodology during questioning, this is hardly what one would expect a conservative to do. When a man picks a candidate even Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid are happy with, and almost every conservative leader [with the exception of those in the government who are prevented from speaking out against the President] in America is dismayed, how conservative can he be?
Is it that liberals have become so liberal that Bush, a moderate at best, seems conservative? If so, what would happen if America ever elected a real conservative? Civil War?
Just curious...
