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theory9 said:
DTWB:
Politicians are all spawned from the same social DNA; your arguments lack focus and factual basis if you continue to claim that only one political party has a monopoly on bad habits. Republicans mess up, Democrats mess up--that's how it is.
Additionally, it appears as if you're falling into the trap of protecting people rather than rights. Does Coulter have the right to speak her mind? Absolutely. But the right to speak one's mind should be universal, rather than being selective in your application of rights. If you preserve a right and hold it in high regard, you don't have to worry about standing up for the person.
I certainly concede that, theory9. That both Democrats and Republicans mess up, and both should be held accountable.
I find it odd that you say that immediately after I posted a laundry list of Bush's mistakes.
And if you look through my last 100 posts, or even back over the last 3 or 4 years of my RKMB posts, you'll see that while a majority of the time I've defended Bush, I've been critical of him as well.
Constructively critical of Bush, but critical nonetheless.
I only say that:
more often for me, the Republican stance rings truer, as the more logical common sense approach.
As in the Afghan and Iraq wars, for example.
Clinton talked about Afghanistan being a haven for terrorists, and that Saddam was a threat to the U.S. and the Arab world.
But
G.W. Bush did more than sabre-rattle, he did what needed to be done in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
And
as I just said, my only problem with that decision is that Bush tried / is trying to do it with a light force, instead of the 200,000 -300,000 troops the Pentagon said were needed to do the job right.
And as a result, I fault Bush and Rumsfeld for doing the job more slowly / more destructively / less efficently than it could be done.
But even so, (despite liberal partisan remarks and media coverage) Iraq is slowly, inexorably becoming more independent and militarily ready every day.
But meanwhile, the Democrats are pushing for faster troop withdrawals, and elimination of U.S. forces before the Iraqis are ready.
Which just further convinces me that whatever problems I see with Bush's conducting of the war, the Democrats are even worse !
I fail to see how this is vague or one-sided of me to say, as you allege.
If I didn't say it before, I'll say it clearly now:
both Democrats and Republicans have made mistakes.
But I think I've said it repeatedly, loud and clear already, in many of my prior posts.
