Should President Bush Retire or Resign?

Authored by JOHN W LILLPOP



"If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign."

What irresponsible, whacked-out liberal said that about our president and commander-in-chief?

Nancy Pelosi? Cindy Sheehan? Howard Dean?

Actually, that is a direct quote from the Father of the modern conservative movement. None other than William F. Buckley, himself.

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There he was with those New England eyebrows jumping damn near off his head. Caustic tongue darting in and out of his puckered mouth like a cobra in heat.

As usual, Buckley used long, complex words not spoken in decades. In some cases, never before, at least not on CBS.

And this icon of right-wing thinking took GW Bush to the shed and gave the president a frightful good whipping.

Ten lashes to the president's bum for presiding over out-of-control spending. Deserved!

But Buckley's belt was stretched to the limit in meting out punishment for Bush's greatest failure: Foreign policy.

Specifically, Iraq.

Asked what President Bush's foreign policy legacy will be to his successor, Buckley says "There will be no legacy for Mr. Bush. I don't believe his successor would re-enunciate the words he used in his second inaugural address because they were too ambitious. So therefore I think his legacy is indecipherable"

Indecipherable?

Seems a quite precise description of the Bush agenda concerning illegal immigration as well.

Buckley even went so far as to suggest that George Bush is not a true conservative.

Buckley may be 81, but in my view he is right on the money. GW Bush is no conservative.