“Good Lieutenant” at MeinBlogoVault has an excellent review of all the ways the Bush Administration has deserted conservatives, which everyone should read.  The only thing that he failed to mention, which is surprising given the level of transgressions, is the explosion of federal spending and growth that we have seen under this administration.

He sums up his arguments with this:

All this said, I have basically had my fill of defending George Bush. I had hoped that he would find a spine or a pair of brass ones in the past few years, but the immigration rhetoric and stupidity we are witnessing in Congress and from the White House has caused me to lose all faith that the man and his people are not completely and utterly tone-deaf as to the wishes of those who have been taking his arrows for all of these years.

I will not join the impeachment train. I will not take part in the high-school-crap-flinging that has become the hallmark of the Democrat Party voters. I will stand firmly with our military and their mission. But I have lost a lot of faith in the leader, who has even partially abdicated his Constitutional duties to a “war czar (whatever the f*ck that is). It pains me to say it, but Bush and me are history. Maybe time will put him into perspective. Maybe a lunatic Democrat Congress/White House bitch combo-plate will shock the nation back into reality as to how badly its is being screwed. Maybe Bush will grow a spine and win back my blessing in the waning years of his tenure.

But I doubt it, given the totality of what I’ve seen.

So President Bush - I love you, man, but you’ve been barking up the wrong trees and backing the wrong horses for quite some time now; it is simply too pervasive not to notice anymore. Stay classy, support the Troops, and take a looong vacation in 2009. I’ll be waiting to read your memoirs. You’re a good man in a bad situation, and that’s a sad thing to witness in real time.