The Black Republican

Lately I have been at odds with President Bush on several domestic issues, for instance on stemming the foreign invasion, but I have never wavered in my total support for this great leader. Opinion polls are supposedly telling us that his popularity is down, I don't care, he is the man for these times and I am fully behind him. In fact, as I told my anti-Republican brother-in-law back in February; since George W. Bush hasn't won the Presidency yet (the Democratic meme), I think he should run again in 2008. And if he does, he has my vote.

Btw, my brother-in-law knew he was forked between his favorite put-down of GWB, and his fear that Bush might actually serve four more years, and he could not muster a response. That moment still makes me laugh.

To understand why I support Bush 43, read this piece by Canadian writer Paul Jackson.

"President George W. Bush strides across the world stage as much as the U.S. dominates the world's stage.

This is very good news for those of us who still believe in decency and democracy.

So forget what some slanted opinion polls say about the leadership of the 43rd president and his patriot countrymen.

Recall, Sir Winston Churchill was once one of the most detested men in Britain, then went on to save the free world.

That's Churchill's undisputed legacy.

In another era it may be Bush's legacy, too."

Jackson goes on to remind us what we would have if we left the world leadership to the heads of many of the world's other nations, and it would be disaster. What he leaves out, perhaps because it is so apparent, is that we would face the same tragedy if the world was lead by Bush's American opponents, for they would capitulate rather than fight back.

While many are worrying about the coming mid-term Congressional elections I am looking ahead to 2008 and wondering who will be there who can fill Bush's role? I don't yet see anyone with the vision to understand the peril, the resolve to defend us, and the guts to take the barrage of political slings and arrows that will surely descend upon anyone who takes up the battle flag and marches on. Perhaps we need to take the Dems at their word, and agree that Bush hasn't won yet, and then run him again in '08.