re: #609 Salamantis

He liberated 50 million people, in two countries, from two totalitarian regimes, and they’ll remain grateful. At least most of them will.

Bush was fiscally reckless. And he lacked the courage or was too proud to change course in Iraq when it was obvious that the course needed to be changed. His actions, and his horse manure “compassionate conservatism” concoction, are what have brought the GOP to the point that international papers are publishing articles entitled “the incredible shrinking elephant.”

The GOP is not losing support because they’ve driven moderates from the “big tent.” The GOP is on the brink of permanent obscurity because they abandoned bedrock conservative values: fiscal responsibility and a limited federal government.