"Resolute and firm in his convictions" is not the same as....

[kentuck]

...bellicose and misguided with his judgements. The Republicans and many of the Bush supporters are trying to portray Bush as "resolute" in his convictions. He is stubborn and his judgements have been terrible for this country and our standing in the world. If the convictions are wrong and misguided, "resoluteness" cannot be portrayed as a "positive". But that is how they are trying to portray George W Bush...

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. He refuses to change his mind

Even when the facts say that he should. That's not resolute, that's ignorant!

[madokie]

2. insane is the word I would use

[bluerum]

8. ,,, incapable of critical thought and re-assement.

[tridim]

10. That's exactly how the 30%-ers think

Their pride is more important than accepting reality.

[Skidmore]

3. How about "just plain pigheaded stubborn."

That's more to the point and the most misguided and basest of his supporters should be able to understand it.

[gratuitous]

4. Strong and wrong is a character flaw, not an asset

We all know the guy, the know-it-all who actually doesn't know a goddam thing. As long as it's his own stuff he's fucking up with his antics, he can be almost amusing. But put him in charge of the country? Suddenly you're wondering why all those bodies are piling up, why is gas so expensive, and where did that federal budget surplus go?

[kentuck]

6. Right on...

target.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Unveering bad judgement

unquestionable poor ethics
rock steady stupidity

stay the damn course

[liberal N proud]

7. bu$h is not capable of deviating from a set plan.

Past records with failed business shows that bu$h can not change direction until there is complete and total failure.
He was put in office to follow the plan set forth by the PNAC and he will not deviate from it until there is complete and total failure. The problem now is this involves the government of the United States and all our lives are at stake in this little charade bu$h calls a presidency.

[Warpy]

9. Nor does it mean pigheaded and WRONG.

You might call him resolute in his convictions were we to see any positive results at all. We simply haven't seen anything but destruction at all levels of government, the economy, foreign relations, and civil liberties.

Congress may not have a choice in 2007. They will have to get rid of this bunch.

[mcscajun]

11. Resolute? Yes. Wrong? Also Yes.

Resolute has never been a substitute for "correct".

David Neiwert's September 2004 blog entry spells it out.

-- It wasn't a Democrat who went on vacation for month after receiving initial intelligence warnings about an imminent terrorist threat, and who failed to act on that intelligence in any discernible fashion.

-- It wasn't a Democratic administration that first focused its attentions on Iraq after the 9/11 attacks, only changing to Afghanistan after it became irrevocably clear that Osama bin Laden, and not Saddam Hussein, was responsible.

(snip)

-- It wasn't, in other words, a Democratic administration that foolishly, through its own arrogance and incompetence, handed Al Qaeda leadership nearly everything it hoped for at nearly every step of the drama: a lax mindset regarding security, an escape through Pakistan, a gift invasion of Iraq that diverted precious resources from the serious work fighting terrorism, a mishandled occupation that provided a groundswell of recruitment.

Bush's entire appeal is crafted around the notion that he is a strong and decisive leader -- even if he does sometimes make the wrong call, this meme hints. But being wrong again, and again, and again, makes all the decisiveness in the world a mere fig leaf for what can only be described as overwhelming incompetence. This is incompetence that, when the record is tallied, leaves no doubt that the voters already made the wrong choice, back in 2000, a choice that clearly left us vulnerable to being hit by terrorists in a way that is devastating to the nation -- then, now, and for the foreseeable future.

Wrong leadership is not strong leadership.
Drill that into the public consciousness, and the rest will follow.

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_09_05_dneiwert_archive.html#109466044209644952