Bully?

The other day Beth at Blue Star Chronicles was blogging about John Kerry's arrogant "apology" which was posted on his website in which he basically said that he was sorry that average Americans were just too stupid to "get" his humor.

I speculated that the reason he was so willing to be open with these kind of comments was that he had finally come to grips with the fact that he was never going to be president. With no political future outside of his position as a senator from a deep blue state he is at last free to be who and what he is.

I went on to speculate that he probably felt a great sense of relief. The mask which he had been forced to wear for the past six years was probably suffocating him.

I'm afraid that another mask has come off today.

I caught part of the President's early press conference on the Rush Limbaugh show today. Rush termed it the "what do you want" press conference because Bush seemed to be saying that since the Democrats won yesterday that they had the right to get whatever they wanted legislatively. In fact Bush seemed totally at peace with the idea and even became passionate when asked if this would make it more likely that he would get his amnesty for illegal aliens passed.

What we saw this afternoon and will continue to see for the next two years is the fact that George W Bush is not a conservative. He is a smart and principled liberal. He believes in big government because of what he sees as its potential to help people. Unlike the Democrat left which sees big government as a way to create a population in dependency who will be forced to vote for Democrats in order to continue to receive the basic necessities of life.

Unlike the modern left George W Bush does not hate businessmen and capitalism. If a person on the dole is able to better himself the modern left liberal curses the fact that he has lost another welfare slave, while George Bush rejoices at another person who is coming up in the world.

The left hates capitalism because it is a rival to socialism. They love high taxes because they are a hindrance to business, making it less efficient and dynamic. They are fully aware that high taxes lower total government tax revenue by slowing the nation's economic activity, but they don't care. George W Bush wants lower taxes because that will stimulate economic growth which will lead to higher tax revenues which will fund further expansion of government spending.

Unlike the modern left George W Bush loves his country and wants to defeat its enemies on the battlefield. He loves the military as an institution and he loves the individual soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, unlike the left which agrees with all of John Kerry's characterizations of them - from the ones he made of them in 1972 to the ones he made this last couple of weeks.

George W Bush is not sad at the results of the election. He is ready to proceed into the next phase of his presidency which will involve the greatest expansion of the federal government in the history of the nation. He is confident that he can use his approval of massive social spending as a bargaining chip to keep the war on terror alive. He is almost certainly correct.

When Republicans elected George W Bush in 2000 they hoped they were getting another Ronald Reagan. These past six years the lunatic left has been convinced that Mr. Bush is another Adolph Hitler. I'm afraid that they are both wrong.

George W Bush is another Teddy Roosevelt.