Ann Coulter: Bush 7, Terrorists 0

Ann Coulter, writing at Human Events.com, gives President Bush his due for working tirelessly for the past seven years to prevent another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

Bush's dogged determination to take the battle to the terrorists has cost him popularity at home and made him Public Enemy No. 1 for the far left.

Coulter compares Bush to Gary Cooper in the classic western "High Noon."

"The sheriff is about to leave office when a marauding gang is coming to town. He could leave, but he waits to face the killers as all his friends and all the townspeople, who supported him during his years of keeping them safe, slowly abandon him," Coulter writes. "In the end, he walks alone to meet the killers, because someone has to. That's Bush. Name one other person in Washington who would be willing to stand alone if he had to, because someone had to."

From Coulter's column:

There wasn't a major al-Qaida attack in 2003. Nor in 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007. Manifestly, liberals thought there would be: They announced a standard of success that they expected Bush to fail.

As Bush has said, we have to be right 100 percent of the time, the terrorists only have to be right one time. Bush has been right 100 percent of the time for seven years -- so much so that Americans have completely forgotten about the threat of Islamic terrorism.

For his thanks, President Bush has been the target of almost unimaginable calumnies -- the sort of invective liberals usually reserve for seniors who don't separate their recyclables properly. Compared to liberals' anger at Bush, there has always been something vaguely impersonal about their "anger" toward the terrorists.

By my count, roughly one in four books in print in the world at this very moment have the words "Bush" and "Lie" in their title. Barnes & Noble has been forced to add an "I Hate Bush" section. I don't believe there are as many anti-Hitler books.

Read the full column at Human Events.com