Mark Steyn's Twilight of the Best?

Mark Steyn's commentary, Twilight of the Best? is right up there with the best commentaries written about President Bush and the current state of "partisan" politics in America. I'll try the link but will give you the information as well. (The Washington Times, October 30, 2006, Twilight of the Best?) While on C-SPAN, Paul Orgel asked Mr. Steyn what he thought about President Bush, the answer is well-worth repeating here.

"I replied that, whatever my differences with him on this or that, I thought he was one of the most farsighted politicians in Washington. That is to say, he is looking down the line to a world in which a radicalized Islam has exported its pathologies to every corner on Earth, Iran and like-minded states have applied nuclear blackmail to any parties within range, and a dozen or more nutcake basket-case jurisdictions have joined Pyongyang and Tehran as a Nukes R Us one-stop shop for all your terrorist needs. In 2020, no one will worry about which congressional page Mark Foley is coming on to.... But if it really is, as Democrats say, "all about the future of our children," then our children will want to know why our generation saw what was happening and didn't do anything about it. They will despise us as we despise the political class of the 1930s. And the fact that we passed a great prescription drug plan will be poor consolation when the entire planet is one almighty headache."

He goes on the write: "Bush hatred is silly and parochial and reductive: History is on the march, and the anti-Bush crowd is holding the telescope the wrong way round." In the Oval Office recently President Bush said, "We're in this grand ideological struggle. I am in disbelief that people don't take these people seriously." Our President Bush is a plain spoken man. He is not the great communicator; he is not the great liar of our times. He is a simple man who knows who the enemy is. That he is confounded about the Democrats abject refusal to look at the writing on the wall - writ large by the blood of all who died on September 11, 2001 and since then at the hands of terrorists - is not surprising. I'm confounded by it as well. But then every war/conflict we have engaged in since WWII has turned into a proxy-UN police action. Why exactly are we in the anti-American UN? The Democrats talk of flooding the White House with subpoenas "when" they win next week. They talk about cutting and running from Iraq; of increasing YOUR taxes; of crippling the President and his policies by choking him with reams of paper. Whether our children and grandchildren will hate us is up to you. The Islamists under the guise of CAIR and other such grand-sounding "Islamic Councils" are trying to beat us at our own game using our legal system and our cowardice in the name of multiculturalism against us. They are painting Muslims generally as the new "victim de jour." It won't wash, fellas. Do you believe that terrorists have given up on attacking us on our own soil? Personally, I believe they are just biding their time and hoping for a Hillary. They have taken the measure of our "cowboy" and they aren't willing to play "cowboys and Islamists". They will be ready, willing, and able with the Dems in charge. The Dems accuse this administration of "Vietnam-quagmires". But it has been Democrat presidents who have led us down that primrose path. To me, it is the Dems who are reliving their LSD days and like a bad trip, they demand that we relive it with them, over and over and over again. Not me, not by choice!