He has faced the most intense fire, hatred, contempt, heavily moneyed and bitterly acidic partisan opposition, underhandedness, betrayal, of any president in the last hundred years...
He has faced almost unbroken contempt from the academy, from the mainstream press, from Democratic elites, from Moveon and all the other holders of the Democratic-party purse strings, from the Democratic Congress, from his treacherous (if not treasonous) Central Intelligence Agency, and from many levels of the permanent State Department. Almost every day, he has been pummeled and undermined by powerful forces of American power. Still, he has stayed firm, with clear arguments, and an even clearer vision.
And now, of course, we conservatives are getting tired of him, tired of defending him, and tired of the dangers of the times.
It takes more bravery to continue walking calmly through immense hostility at home, than to face down a foreign foe, with a united nation at one's back. This, as I say, is a very brave president.
After all the rage and the invective they have indulged themselves in over the last six years, the Democrats are going to face a problem when they return to power and return to the only politics they know: patronage and pensions. If President Bush that was so dreadful and the nation was in such a mess, how come it’s just back to politics as usual?
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