An Open Letter To President Bush
UPDATED, MAY 31, 2007; 0745 PDT:
This was emailed to the President using my real name and regular email address.
I doubt he'll see it, but I feel better!
VW
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Dear Mr. President,
Sir, I've supported you these past 6 years through thick and thin and I have to tell you, that is hard to do living in the People's Republik of Washington. People hate you out here. They get a hangnail out here and they somehow figure out some way to blame you for it.
I'm afraid, sir, that you've lost my political support. You lost me, not over the war in Iraq or the greater war on terror, but on the domestic issue of immigration. Your remarks over this travesty of an immigration package were uncalled for. This is where we part ways. From this moment on, you can place me in that polling statistic that no longer supports you.
Mr. President, you can call it what you want. You can wrap it in nuance and political doublespeak, but this bill is amnesty and laden with more loopholes then the tax code.
Honestly sir, can you really look me in the eye and tell me that any bill that Teddy Kennedy supports is good for America?
We need to control our borders first! Then we need to work on dealing with those illegal immigrants that are already here. We need to address local government and their idiotic policies of "sanctuary".
Mr. President, you and most liberals have it wrong. We are NOT a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of Americans. I'm not an immigrant, you aren't an immigrant and most people here today are not immigrants. There was a time in our history when we could take in the world's huddled masses, but times have changed.
So good-bye, Mr. President. If you had any political capital at all, it's now gone. You are now truly a lame duck. Amnesty is your legacy.
VW
"The government could start by securing our nation's borders. A sovereign nation that can't do that is not a sovereign nation." ~Fred D. Thompson~
And for damn sure Bush has done little, if ANYTHING to keep our nation sovereign, he lost me on Iraq, I was all for going into Afghanistan, but the Iraq debacle was my breaking point, right from the start, and yeah, I supported the soldiers, THEY were following orders, they had no choice and needed, still NEED our support, but the Iraq thing, and then the immigration issues really blew it for me, Bush is nothing but a Lib/Dem in disguise...
Posted by: TexasFred | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 14:31
wow.
Posted by: Kelly | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 16:12
Perhaps worded a little stronger than I would, but I have to admit that more and more I like Bush less and less. I am very reluctant to do that for the main reason that it aligns me with the likes of John Kerry and Michael Moore, but this president is not giving me much choice. I'm not sure who is giving him his political advice, but I have a feeling it is probably Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Braden Ellis | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 20:15
Conservative blogers and their readers all over the country have withdrawn their support for Bush over immigration. Men and women who I personally know, who campaigned for and donated money to his reelection are now regretting it. He has split Republicans over this issue and is following his daddy's legacy in handing the White House to a Democrat.
When Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have become his biggest critics over immigration, you know he's lost it.
Posted by: BobF | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 20:17
Wow, things are a roiling mess. Bush has really split the nation and the party itself. It will be interesting to watch to see if things will recover.
Posted by: canuckistani | Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 10:37
Thank you all for your comments. This is a serious issue and the Republican party is really not divided over it. Most of the rank and file are like me and firmly against it. It's only the politicians that seem to be for it.
VW
Posted by: Violence Worker | Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 16:24
All I can say is AMEN! I too have supported the President through thick & thin, but this really tears it.
I will not support another Republican if this passes.
Posted by: Kathy Burgoyne | Monday, June 04, 2007 at 11:23
I voted for Bush twice. I would now vote to have him impeached! If left unchecked Bush, Kennedy, McCain and the others will destroy our country's sovereignty. I will not support anyone who supports this legislation. Do they think all Americans are stupid? Apparently so. I think it is time for "Americans" to march on Washington, D.C. I understand a protest is being held there June 14, 15 & 16. Stand up America and speak loudly until they acknowledge our wishes! I'm fed up!
Posted by: Sandy James | Monday, June 04, 2007 at 14:50
Why do Bush and Kennedy ignore those who are trying to come to this country the legal way? All that left for Bush to do is staff all our consulates with illegals. Bush is a total disaster. (FRED THOMPSON YOUR TABLE IS READY)
Posted by: Old Cracker | Tuesday, June 05, 2007 at 15:20
I have to agree with wv. I backed bush until he got together with kennedy the biggest liberal in the country.
Posted by: michael mckenna boston | Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 12:51