Archive → May 10th, 2007
Is it his cologne?
Just about every GOP presidential aspirant is running in two opposite directions at the same time: they all want to claim the Ronald Reagan mantle, and they all want to distance themselves from George W. Bush.
Whether it’s Guiliani, Romney, McCain or one of the Seven Dwarfs, it seems like President Bush is as popular as a New York ticket broker 20 minutes after a football game is over; no one wants to be around him.
That’s not Reagan-esque.
One thing Reagan knew well is, you stick by your friends and fellow party members through thick and thin. But simply because a handful of MoveOn.org Democrats have stirred up Bush’s negatives, all these wannabe mini-me Reaganites are leaping to play “Dogpile on W.”
Well, remember, you GOP candidates: one of you just may win the office and when you do, is this the kind of “loyalty” you’d want from your own supposed allies?
Truth is, Bush may not be as good of a social conservative as Reagan, but in terms of foreign policy, he resembles Reagan’s “No BS” approach far more than any of these “American Political Idol” wannabes.
Bush has understood the nature of the terror war far better than just about anyone else. This country needs its next president to be as fearless. And it needs its next president to be as pro-Israel as Bush.
If we fall short of that, our country may see a much bleaker future in 2009 and beyond.
Fewer people divorcing!
According to a Breitbart.com article, fewer people are getting divorced these days, and far from the media drive to declare marriage dead by talking about a divorce rate over 50 percent, a recent study proves the divorce rate is actually going down, not up.
Are husbands suddenly becoming more loving and faithful, buying their spouses a set of Studio RTA furniture? Are wives suddenly appreciating their husbands more and browbeating them less?
Who knows?
But according to the study, the divorce rate peaked in 1981 with a rate of 5.3 per 1,000 people. It’s now down to 3.6 per 1,000, the lowest the divorce rate has been since 1970, almost four decades ago.
Now, the “nattering nabobs of negativism” will point out that there are more people living together without the benefit of marriage, so the lower divorce rate could be due to fewer people getting married in the first place.
There may be a point there, but I prefer to look at it this way: maybe, at last, there are fewer people rushing into marriages and more people waiting until they know they’ve found someone worth marrying.
One can always hope.
