Comments on Bush Alone

I don't agree.

Bush can't go on without the GOP shoring him up in congress and their media running dogs still reporting Bush/Cheney spin on cue. And the GOP in congress is shoring him up and running interference for him non-stop.

Charles: the GOP in the US congress and in WA state would like voters to believe they somehow aren't responsible for what Bush/Cheney does here on out. It is unproductive of you to give support this spin. The GOP made him and they are protecting him AND his policies right now!

You are responding very well to the Republicans' strategy, then.

They are all running away from Bush as fast as they can, because they want to win elections in the future; this "difference" you are seeing between Republicans and Bush is illusory and is the result of a deliberate strategy. Bush doesn't need to win anymore; they still do. But he is still completely and utterly of them, with them, by them. They gave us Bush. What are you going to give them in return?

it's reallllllllly obvious you don't live in the south.

Just because one is evil incarnate doesn't mean the other isn't as well.

The distance between the Republican Party and Bush/Cheney now is similar to the "distance" between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party 3 years ago on issuses of Iraq. This is a bit of a daft way to say I agree with #2, and that most national legislators are somewhere between fools and scum.

FNARF, i thought about that. i thought at first this is really a republican trick. but bush has such a bloated sense of his place in history, as a historic man, the one who gave the republican party its spine and substance and the nation renewed meaning. i feel that sense of importance has not left bush. if it is a republican trick, then bush is not aware of such a trick. he really is alone.

Fnarf: we almost agree on something!

Yes, I think he is alone. That's part of his problem: he's been alone from the beginning, in a world where political "strategery" is the only thing that matters. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, as they say, and everything looked that way for Bush.

But while this attitude works great for winning elections (remember "compassionate conservative" and how Bush was supposedly NOT one of the "mean kook Republicans"?) but was woefully inadequate for 9/11, which I think completely unhinged the man. He was left flapping in the breeze, with no serious understanding of what he was supposed to do -- remember how scared he looked, and how he ran for hours in his plane on that day -- and his Christian faith, as it so often does in crisis, drove him to think millennially, that this was the end of the world, and he was chosen by God to save the world. He has said many times that this is precisely what he believes.

But of course, what he was really being "chosen" to do was run a government through some difficult situations. The millennial "save the world" approach is extremely unhelpful in the real world, and so instead of doing his job, and seriously addressing the issues of terrorism and rogue states and so forth, he banished all reality from his court and proceeded into hell.

All Republicans followed him in lockstep, because following The Leader in absolute lockstep is a hallmark of modern Republicanism (not traditional Republicanism). The Leader is, after all, here to save the world. If you have any questions at all, you are clearly on the other side and must be banished.

It has taken a very long time and an extreme crisis to make some, just some, Republicans start to question the wisdom of this approach. As usual, electoral reality is what is changing their minds. This is very difficult for them to accept, because modern Republicanism has been built around this notion that The Leader is everything. You still hear the hard-core faithful, the bloggers and others who never have to answer to voters, accusing each other of treason; that's the word they use, on their own kind now, those who have turned on Bush. By "turned on" they merely mean "have had even a moment's doubt about".

So Bush still has supporters, rabid supporters who believe he is omniscient -- God, basically -- but they are being shut out of the politics of the thing, because Republicans who have to face votes are starting to realize they have to get away from him. He still has friends but only unimportant friends. All of his important friends have abandoned him, and are pretending that they were never really with him in the first place.

I expect this is making Bush's incipient Jesus Complex even worse, as he strides around his Rose Garden of Gethsemane, crying about all those who have forsaken him.

The bottom line is, the leader of the most powerful country in the world is insane. No, I don't feel better.

This man was never meant to be anything other than a caretaker president. By that first August he was becoming a lame duck, his idiocy and unsuitability for the job laid bare.

The attacks unhinged more than just Bush. I too remember vividly Bush on that day, the look on his face when he finally addressed the nation. Devoid of any substance, thought or true contemplation, he was utterly and completely lost. I half expected him to resign.

The electoral defeat has a lot to do with the turn, but not all. It must be dawning on even the most ideologically pure republicans just how badly we've stumbled, how dire the situation has become. Those in power of all stripes must know by now what attacking Iran will reap for us, and just how capable Bush is of that colossal mistake.

Remember also how, after Bush ran, and no one could find his plan, and they were flying all around the South without filing flight plans, and after his deer-in-the-headlights performance when he finally showed up -- remember that after that the Republicans started saying in unison that he was a great and powerful leader who refused to flinch in the face of terror, who refused to run. Which is the opposite of what happened. That's the day we entered bizarro world.

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