A book you should read (but liberals won't):
Fred Barnes has written a little book. It’s called Rebel in Chief.
It's an extension of what he wrote in 2004 right after Bush kicked Kerry's Butt.
Just reading exerpts I grasped why I and so many of my ilk are so slavishly loyal to George W Bush. He represents the person we wish we would be if somehow they made us President (or King).
Some of the things he says about our magnificent President in this book are:
GWB plays by a different set of rules, he has a complete lack of interest in being loved by the Beltway establishment.
He operates his administration like a small occupying band of insurgents, an elected band of brothers and sisters on a mission.
He sees himself as an alien in the realm of the governing class having been given a green card by the voters. 51-48%.
He avoids being sucked into the Washington mindset and echo chamber. He and Laura avoid the capital’s social whirl. He goes to bed early (he ducked out of a dinner with India’s prime minister at 9:30am to go to bed). He was up at 5:30am because, as he said, “I’ve got a lot to do”.
He goes to Crawford Texas, to relax, not to the Kennedy center.
His emotional distance makes it easy for him to break some furniture sometimes. In his first term metaphorically he busted up a whole living room. He abrogated the missile defense treaty (Star Wars), He gave a really cold shoulder to Al Gore’s Kyoto treaty (thank the Lord), He insisted immediately that 9-11 was an act of war, he ignored the international community’s insistence that the path to peace in the middle east was negotiating with Yasser Arafat.
He committed Washington’s cardinal sin of taking on Social Security, trying to do major reform.
And he cut taxes.
As a result his Rebel in Chief style has brought republicans to the mountaintop. He initiated a political realignment that continues today. He helped congressional republicans achieve a majority as well.
Clinton got what he strived for, Personal Popularity. Bush is willing to surrender personal popularity to get what he seeks: a transformation of American Politicos that makes the Republican Party the majority party.
Bush talks about Jesus far less than Clinton did. He doesn't wear his faith on his sleve like Clinton did. He is deeply religious but private about it. But his memorable quote is: Liberty is not America’s contribution to the world but is God’s gift to Mankind.
Somehow Bush is able to stand strong in the face of bad news:
The news media hammers hard on him about Iraq, Drug entitlement program, the accusation of a culture of corruption, $3 gasoline, Iran, the ownership society that hasn’t yet gotten traction.
George W Bush has recently been reading about George Washington. He is said to have commented, he was the first, I’m the 43rd. They’re still analyzing him. In 200 years they’ll still be analyzing me. I will do what I believe to be right.
I guess it will come as no surprise, I am so glad he is there in the White House and in Charge. He is my hero.
As for me and my house, God Bless President Bush
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