Today, while driving through Hollywood, I saw my first “Hillary Clinton ’08″ bumper sticker. When that car changed lanes, I smiled for the car in front of this one sported a “Viva, Bush!” bumper sticker. I gave a thumbs up to this Hispanic driver, delighted to know that despite our different backgrounds, we supported the president.

Last night, on Hannity & Colmes, former Clinton advisor Dick Morris said that Hillary has basically already sewn up the 2008 Democratic nomination and has a good chance to be elected president just under four years hence. A week ago, in his Best of the Web column, James Taranto made a similar comment:

the most likely next president of the United States is Hillary Clinton. We’re not saying the odds of a Clinton presidency are higher than 50%, just that they’re higher than for any other individual.

While I agree that the odds of Hillary becoming president are less than 50%, I still think (alas!) that she has a good shot of winning.
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One of the things which has most impressed me about the president’s leadership has been his steadfastness. Critics said we could never overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan. They insisted that the U.S. would not be able to transfer sovereignty to the Iraqis by the June 30, 2004 deadline. We did it a few days ahead of schedule. Elite opinion was nearly unanimous that continuing violence would prevent the Iraqi elections from taking place on schedule on January 30 — and that if they did, few Iraqis would bother to vote.

Despite this criticism, the president held firm to his plans. Not only did the elections take place, but it looks like they’re becoming a watershed in the history of the Middle East. A pro-Syrian regime in Lebanon has fallen. Elections in Egypt are to be open to opposition parties. The mullahs in Iran are running scared. The president has confounded his critics who, once again, have “misunderestimated” the plainspoken Texan.

In an excellent piece in “THE WEEKLY STANDARD,” Bill Kristol notes that not only do the elections vindicate the Bush doctrine “as the right response to 9/11,” but they bring with them “the prospect of further and accelerating progress.” Like my blog-league, the good Dr. Kristol quotes Lebanese Druze patriarch Walid Jumblatt who links the democratic revolt in the Arab world to the American invasion of Iraq.
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Perhaps this column by (yep, it is her name) Cinnamon Stillwell will help some of you understand my point of view and why I am a gay conservative/Republican.

The Making of a 9/11 Repubican – SFgate.com (hat tip: VietPundit)

Having been indoctrinated in the postcolonialist, self-loathing school of multiculturalism, I thought America was the root of all evil in the world. Its democratic form of government and capitalist economic system was nothing more than a machine in which citizens were forced to be cogs. I put aside the nagging question of why so many people all over the world risk their lives to come to the United States.

Freedom of speech, religious freedom, women’s rights, gay rights (yes, even without same-sex marriage), social and economic mobility, relative racial harmony and democracy itself were all taken for granted in my narrow, insulated world view. (GP note – Bolded highlights added by me)

So, what happened to change all that? In a nutshell, 9/11.

Read the whole thing….contemplate…. and learn…..

Hopefully some of you will finally realize why President Bush is doing the right thing and why 62 million of us voted for him to protect our entire way of live, not just our “gay way of life.”

Now I’m off to the airport for the long flight to Seattle. I’m off to the Left Coast to continue the battle there for a couple of days. Heh, heh.

Quick…. guess who made the following statements this week?

1 – Homosexuality is an aberration.

2 – Gay rights are a threat to society and should not be tolerated.

3 – There is a global responsibility to ensure that ethical values are upheld.

Nope, not one of America’s religious right cartoon characters… Those statements were made by Anis Ahmad, vice-chancellor of Pakistan’s Riphah International University, considered to be one of the world’s leading ISLAMIC scholars.

Gays “Threaten Society” Islamic Leader Claims – 365gay.com

And remind me again why the gay community as aligned itself with the anti-war radicals in our War on Terror? Why didn’t the gay community support the liberation of two countries whose people lived under BRUTAL and anti-gay oppressive regimes?

I think we all know the answer. Because the War on Terror is being led by a Republican.

Remember folks, our enemies want to KILL us. When this guy talks, little Osamas around the world listen.

As a follow up to my posting “Governor W. George Bush ‘Outed’” on February, 20…. I direct your attention to this news article from Joe Crea at the Washington Blade.

Secret tapes shed light on Bush and gays – Washington Blade

Apparently Doug Wead, the former Bush confidant with the secret tapes, was fired from the White House for showing his own anti-gay bias.

The man who secretly taped phone conversations with President Bush in 1998 was fired from the George H.W. Bush administration in 1990 because he objected to gay activists participating in two White House bill signings, according to media reports from the time.

Doug Wead, a former special assistant to the first President Bush, and the man who secretly recorded private conversations with then Gov. George W. Bush in 1998, was reportedly fired after objecting to the presence of gay leaders at two presidential bill signing ceremonies: the Hate Crimes Statistics Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Looks like when Bush told Doug Wead in the secret tapes that he didn’t want to “kick gays”…. he meant it and showed Doug the door.

UPDATE: Commenters have rightly pointed out that it was President Bush “41″ who fired Wead. My bad. I guess not wanting to “kick gays” runs in the family?

While I am not as harsh on Hollywood as my blog-league, I too found Chris Rock’s anti-Bush rant at the Oscar ceremonies to be in poor taste. And it wasn’t even funny. It seems Americans in the “red” states had similar feelings. While more younger viewers tuned in to watch the Oscars this year, the overall audience “down 2 million from last year’s show.” According to AP:

The drop in total viewership was an indication that this year’s Oscar ceremony was more popular in the big cities than rural areas, more so than an average Academy Awards, said Larry Hyams, vice president of audience analysis and research for ABC.

Hat tip:Drudge.

Oh and, by the way, “ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY” predicted all the big “races” accurately.