The Discerning Texan

Maybe it’s just my perception, but it seems to me that there’s been a certain sneering tone to the coverage about Bush’s visit to the Albanians — along the lines of “can you believe that those primitive yahoos admire President Bush (guffaw!!)?” Here’s part of the WaPo story, via the SF Chron:

Evidence of Albania’s love for the United States lined the road leading into this capital Sunday. U.S. and Albanian flags flew from lampposts. People wearing cardboard Uncle Sam hats milled in the streets. Oversize billboards and banners heralded the American president’s visit.

“Albania welcomes President Bush,” some of the signs announced. Others proclaimed he was “making history” as the first U.S. president to set foot in the country.

Throughout much of Europe — particularly in France and Germany — a Bush visit is frequently seen as cause for protest.

But in this former communist nation, Bush was accorded a hero’s welcome. He was awarded the Order of the Flag medal, the nation’s highest honor. His visage is on a new line of commemorative postage stamps, and the street in front of the parliament building has been renamed in his honor. [...]

I’ve actually been thinking a lot about President Bush’s supporters. Not the old white shoe conservatives who are rather nastily spoofed in a Washington Mutual TV commercial I saw the other day [...]

Nope, I’m talking about some of the less expected Bush supporters: the Czechs, the Albanians, the Angela Merkels, the Nicholas Sarkozys, the Ayaan Hirsi Alis, and the Neocons. What all of these people have in common is that they’ve either been complicit in or victims of Communism or Socialism or some other statist ideology (such as Islam, which is statism decked out in religious trappings). People who have lived in and looked into those totalitarian abysses love Bush. They have no truck with the Soros, and Chomskys and Ward Churchills, and even the Hillarys, Obamas and Edwards, of this world, all of whom, in one form or another, and dressed up in pretty language, would like to recreate a United States in which the government, not the citizen, is dominant. And as I’ve pointed out time and time again, governments are utterly without conscience and will invariably end up destroying their citizenries to maintain the power of those who have risen up inside the government bureaucracy.

Bush currently stands as the antithesis and enemy of Leftism, Islamism and other forms of fascism (despite the fake cries of outrage about his daring to be a committed Christian). And I say that despite the fact that, sadly, he’s been a sort of blank check conservative, who has never met a cause at which he hasn’t thrown taxpayer money. He may be a spendthrift, but he’s still someone who believes in basic principles of individual and market freedom, and who stands as a bulwark against fascism, whether it’s dressed up as old-fashioned Communism, or medieval (or, some might say, new fashioned) Islamism.

Labels: Illegal Immigration, Islamic Fascism, President Bush