I was actually all set to write about the ways in which President Bush has strayed from the conservative values that got him elected, but his 9/11 speech changed that.

On that Monday night, the President gave a solemn, heartfelt speech that I hope resonated among the vast majority of Americans. He once again pointed out the seriousness of the terrorist threat still out there, terrorists rabidly wanting to destroy our way of life and value system.

After eight years of Clinton and his Cabinet’s weak, ineffective strategy, the responsibility fell into the lap of President Bush, and he acted with decisive action in the way of any good leader. The facts are strongly on Bush’s side.

But for some reason, the extreme hatred for the president blinds the Democrats and their far-left liberal leadership. Name me one time when the Democrats gave Bush credit for doing something positive, other than the war votes (which were politically beneficial), in the first six years of his presidency.

You can’t. Like the whiners they are, they still haven’t gotten over the fact that Bush legally, officially and even unofficially won the 2000 election over their inferior candidate, Al Gore.

It’s sad that these facts have to be continually brought up. Our legal system worked just the way it should have, and the Democrats still won’t accept the decision.

By a 7-to-2 vote, the Supreme Court ordered the Florida recount to be stopped due to a lack of a consistent standard being followed. Only Justices Stevens and Ginsberg (the ACLU’s poster girl) dissented.

Then the court followed up with a 5-to-4 count that determined there was insufficient time for a recount in order to meet Florida’s deadline for certifying the state electors.

Remember how the Democrats moaned and groaned, worrying who would replace Sandra Day O’Connor, the court’s voice of reason and balance? She voted with the majority on both of the above votes. Oops, I guess she wasn’t reasoned and balanced that time. But supposedly the facts don’t count.

Even when the unofficial recounts done by independent bodies declared that Bush’s margin of victory would have been larger if a recount had been taken, this didn’t matter to the Democrats. They still would prefer making up "facts" that suit their purposes. [an error occurred while processing this directive]