Abbey-Roads2

I’m coming out. 

I rarely, if ever, post anything on politics - especially mine.  I love to vote, but hate the politics, not to mention the very early campaign circus we have all been living through for the past 6 months.  If anyone reads Abbey-Roads 1, they have gotten the hint that Mr. Bush drives me nuts.  (I honestly believe he is our punishment for the sin of abortion, despite the fact that he has appointed pro-life judges.  Just as war is a punishment for sin, bad political leaders can be as well.)

Nevertheless, I’m no longer afraid to “come out of the closet” with my unhappiness in the  way this Administration has been handling the country.  More and more conservatives are indeed fed up, as Wall Street Journal contributing writer, Peggy Noonan, in her insightful editorial (along with numerous other blogs) tells us.  It’s safe to come out now - not to be a Bush hater (I’m not), but to call a spade a spade.  Here is a snippet from Ms. Noonan’s terrific critique of the “Too bad if you disagree with us.”  Bush Administration domestic and foreign policy attitude:

“What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker–”At this point the break became final.” That’s not what’s happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.”

Further on in the editorial, Ms. Noonan tells us the point wherein she began to have misgivings about this Administration:

The beginning of my own sense of separation from the Bush administration came in January 2005, when the president declared that it is now the policy of the United States to eradicate tyranny in the world, and that the survival of American liberty is dependent on the liberty of every other nation. This was at once so utopian and so aggressive that it shocked me. For others the beginning of distance might have been Katrina and the incompetence it revealed, or the depth of the mishandling and misjudgments of Iraq.”  - Peggy Noonan; read the rest here. 

He lost me with his Social Security reform package proposals and the neo-imperialist image of the United States which he sometimes arrogantly conveys to the world.

He drives me nuts.