Milbloggers Meet with Bush, Liberals Lose It
I can’t say I’m surprised by the reaction of commentors and bloggers across the bloggisphere but at the same time . . . I am surprised. I mean, holy shit, folks, all the ten of us did was sit down with President Bush for a conversation and a quick spin around the Oval Office. And on the backside of that event, all most of us did was blog matter-of-factly about it.
Apparently that’s a crime or at least an opportunity squandered according to those to the left of me. Apparently the idea that the president might be a decent man in person is anathema to them, and that someone might relate that sort of observation makes him a heretic. So what would others have had us do? Wear Code Pink tiaras? Spill cow’s blood on the conference table in the Roosevelt Room? Gimme a break. (And these people wonder why other blogging groups haven’t received a similar invitation?)
I went into the meeting with an open mind and came away impressed by the man and the place. No more; no less. My politics haven’t changed. I still think the Iraq invasion was a mistake . . . like I’ve always thought the Iraq invasion was a mistake. (Check my op-ed archives at Military.com for proof.) But we’re in now, and, in spite of what the Democrats would have us believe, if we truly give a damn about our future, there’s only one way out. And if you pull the string with any of the candidates from either party you’ll find that to be true. Only the exceptionally wreckless like Ron Paul (not Bill Richardson) have a plan that’s notably different – and fortunately for the world, Ron Paul doesn’t have any chance of getting elected.
But this sort of reality doesn’t keep liberals — if they are in fact liberals of which I refer – from jumping up and down and getting all red-faced. Their reaction is obligatory and derivative now, like a commercial starring Dennis Hopper. And it doesn’t represent how most of Americans feel about - not the war - but the way forward out of the war and those fighting it on their behalf.