I blame Bush for far more crimes against ‘We the People’ in so far as doing all and everything he could to show he was above the law and could care less about the Constitution. He did more to disgrace that document and all the people who have given their lives to make sure it was safe then anyone I can think of.

Not even close, Tribal. Do some studying on Wilson and FDR. For that matter, Lincoln did more damage to the Constitution than Bush did. The Marxist in Chief is now shredding it.

I frequently called for Bush’s impeachment over his dereliction of duty on the Border issue. Look how insignificant that issue seems now that the Obamessiah is nationalizing our banks, insurance companies, automobile industry, and coming soon the health care and energy industries. He and his Progressive sycophants in Congress are spending our great grandchildren’s money like a drunken sailor, and utterly trashing our currency in the process.

The Patriot Act had some onerous features; but it was a bipartisan bill and all it did was give law enforcement the same power to deal with international terrorists as it already had to deal with international drug cartels. One can make the argument that they shouldn’t have those powers at all, and in most cases I would; but it is disingenuous to imply that they were invented out of whole cloth by Bush.

I have immense reverence for the Constitution; but it is not a suicide pact. One can be sure that if Bush had failed to be as aggressive as possible in preventing a repeat of 9/11 and the Jihadis had pulled off another attack, Bush would have been rightly crucified; and any excuse on his part that spying on terrorists would have been unconstitutional just wouldn’t have cut it.

Don’t you find it interesting that on defense issues, now that the Obamessiah is on the throne and gets to see the daily threat assessment intel, he has pretty much abandoned his anti-war election rhetoric and is following the same policies as Bush?

Much as I detest McCain, and I didn’t vote for him either, he would have been infinitely better than the Usurper. First, we would have had divided government, which always slows down the process of undermining the Constitution. We would still be eroding toward socialism; but not at light speed, as we are now. Then, the R’s would have forced him to pick originalist SCOTUS judges like Bush did, not these activist “living document” types we will get now.

You are right that neither wing of the Incumbrepublocrats will ever get us back to Constitutional government; but we don’t have the time required to build a third party. This country is history. It will disintegrate from the crushing debt, devalued currency, and civil war long before enough people could be educated enough to stop it. ◄Dave►