Seven years today

Ann Coulter thanks God Bush cared more for us than himself In the years since 9/11.

If Bush’s only concern were about his approval ratings, like a certain impeached president I could name, he would not have fought for the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq. He would not have resisted the howling ninnies demanding that we withdraw from Iraq, year after year. By liberals’ own standard, Bush’s war on terrorism has been a smashing, unimaginable success.

In 2002, NYT’s Frank Rich gave him a year to prove his mettle. 

“Since major al-Qaida attacks are planned well in advance and have historically been separated by intervals of 12 to 24 months, we will find out how much we’ve been distracted soon enough.” (“Never Forget What?” New York Times, Sept. 14, 2002.)

So nothing in 2003 or since, for which achievement

President Bush has been the target of almost unimaginable calumnies – the sort of invective liberals usually reserve for seniors who don’t separate their recyclables properly. Compared to liberals’ anger at Bush, there has always been something vaguely impersonal about their “anger” toward the terrorists.

Very good, that “vaguely impersonal.” 

Bush’s conservative allies have slipped away, leaving Bush as .

Gary Cooper in the classic western “High Noon.” The sheriff is about to leave office when a marauding gang is coming to town. He could leave, but he waits to face the killers as all his friends and all the townspeople, who supported him during his years of keeping them safe, slowly abandon him. In the end, he walks alone to meet the killers, because someone has to.

Fanciful but accurate enough. 

Coulter even has a Grace Kelly for us, the wife who “appears out of nowhere and blows away one of the killers! The aging sheriff is saved by a beautiful, gun-toting woman.”

She’s the “one other person in Washington who would be willing to stand alone if he had to, because someone had to.”  Who might that be? 

Hint: “She’s not in Washington yet.”