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> … GWB is now realizing that the Dems write the history books
> … serving as Teddy Kennedy’s tea-boy
> … a real Republican of the Reagan/Goldwater stripe
> … But to keep the SCOTUS from turning us into a Eurabian dystopia,

What can I say: When you have lost the hyperbolic mouth-breathers like daveinboca, you’re done.

Here’s hoping your New Hope Fred Thompson does a little better balancing budgets than Reagan did, Dave.

“Peggy is being too kind. GWB has the lack of depth and perspective a C-student at Yale who never cracked a book might be expected to have. Although his reasons for invading Iraq were not ironclad, we gave him the benefit of the doubt. But he devolved the peace after the war into the hands of a total arrogant incompetant named Rumsfeld, who grabbed the development of democracy from seasoned “professionals like Jay Garner and his team, and gave it to a loyalist hack named Bremer. And GWB was somnambulent as Ken Lay was at Enron, allowing “experts” like Cheney and Rumsfeld to overrule Shinseki and do a peace on the cheap. Of course, it was new wine into old wineskins and the seams broke.”

“Peggy does a somber sum-up that reflects my own misgivings—especially about Poppy Bush and his singular insouciance about taxes and the economy that led to Perot. Then his son squandered trillions with a Republican Senate resembling Ali Baba and his forty thieves. GWB is now realizing that the Dems write the history books and is trying to salvage his reputation by serving as Teddy Kennedy’s tea-boy, the same Kennedy who in ‘65 promised that that Immigration Law would “not allow a million immigrants a year nor change the ethnic composition of the country.” both of which it eventually did. [ditto ‘86]”

“Now REAL conservatives will have to latch onto a real Republican of the Reagan/Goldwater stripe—not transplanted Rockefeller Easterners affecting drawls and down-home cowboy charm. Like Fred Thompson or Romney. Peggy continues with a sad summary of the Bush Betrayal Family Tradition, both father and son wobbly and spineless…”

But to keep the SCOTUS from turning us into a Eurabian dystopia, I’ll hold my nose and vote for Giuliani, as long as he has Fred or Mitt on the ticket.

When the chips are down, the neanderthal wing of the GOP will remind themselves that, no matter how despicable the traitors within their own party may be, the alternative is infinitely worse.

This is probably the only sentiment of theirs that I can empathize with.

But I’m with Eli (and Krugman) on this: I’ll buy the de-Bushification of the Republican party when their voters laugh at those BS scare tactics and abjure those candidates who use them. As it stands, all of their “serious” candidates are pushing the same 2004 line.

You might throw in a dose of juvenile playground style bullying. It seems to be a regular tactic in the memory squelching process.