Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed. After the "Bridge to Nowhere" transportation bill, the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination and the Dubai Ports World deal, the immigration crisis was the tipping point for us. . . .
The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative.
The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative.
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed that a lot of conservatives are acting like those Communists you see from time to time around college campuses? Their argument is that conservatism and neoconseratism are excellent ideas, but that they shouldn't be judged harshly. Just like the Commies say that Communism is good an that the USSR, China and every other country country is not a good example of Communism because the USSR, et al were not true to Communism. So, by their argument, Communism is great. Now we have the argument that George W. Bush and his ilk are huge failures not because they were stupid, arrogant and incompetent, but because they didn't stick with conservatism. In short, they failed because they were liberals.
An excellent rejoinder to Mr. V's natterings.
ReplyDeleteI was having a not dissimilar argument with a friend over the war in Iraq. I argued that neocons like William Kristol and Francis Fukayama and old-timers like William F. Buckley should not be overly blamed for the Iraq war because they never intended for their neocon "values" to be used in the manner that they were.
My friend said that I was letting these dudes off the hook. The more I think about it, she's right.