Bush Derangement Syndrome Alive and Well
posted at 10:05 am on September 22, 2009 by Track-A-'Crat
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In today’s least surprising news, The Washington Times reports that various Democrats are preparing to run in 2010 on platforms of re-re-iterating just how downright mean and nasty the 43rd POTUS was (and evil! Mustn’t forget to include evil!).
Yeah, this one’s gotten old, already.
We’d better get used to it, though. As with so many things, the United Kingdom provides a window to the future for what lies ahead for US conservatives. Despite having been in power there for 12 years now, the Labour Party still runs against opponents whom they defeated all that time ago, barely cognizant of how the Conservative Party has changed in the interceding years.
But why stop with President Bush? There’s no statute of limitations, is there? So why not make it party policy to equate modern Republicans with Herbert Hoover, thus drawing a straight line between the Great Depression and its modern variant (in that inimitable Democratic way of making nonsensical mental leaps that would make even Rep. Alcee Hastings proud)?
Oh, that’s why: because it’s stupid.
This either speaks to the stupidity of the politicians (in rehashing an exhausted tactic from yesteryear) or the stupidity of the electorate (in potentially falling for this alleged “strategy” so soon after its last deployment), but I’m not sure which. Let’s split the difference – there’s plenty enough stupid to go around.
Forget the so-called personal anecdotes, character-assassination pieces and Democratic/media hysteria.
Those who know President Bush almost unanimously portray him as charming, personable and a history buff. The first MBA president (Woodrow Wilson – the man who segregated Washington D.C., let it never be forgotten – was the first with a PhD), he had a higher GPA at Yale than John Kerry. He also had substantial private sector experience, the success of which I’ll leave up to you.
He did make mistakes. Some quite large. And he knows that the Left will cravenly denounce them at every opportunity.
So it reveals the dignity of the man that he won’t criticize President Obama, because the president “deserves my silence.” Remember that, creatures of the Left, or has your selective-amnesia kicked in once again?
That’s called “civility” (n. ci·vil·i·ty).
Former Presidents Clinton and Carter, please take note.
Unfortunately for President Bush and us, however, it is now official Democratic Party policy to blame him for anything that goes wrong anywhere until 2067.
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John Kerry’s people were still spouting Herbert Hoover lines during the 2004 election, due to the Democrats’ DNA that equated attacking Hoover with 20 straight years in the White House. So it’s no surprise they’re going to try and attack Bush in 2010 and 2012, though massive losses in the next two elections could curtail that urge slightly, by 2020 or so.
jon1979 on September 22, 2009 at 10:57 AM
I say, “Bring It On!” They are afraid to be equated with Obama’s policies, so they fall back on Bush’s…We have them running when they have to “fall back”.
lovingmyUSA on September 22, 2009 at 11:30 AM
In my respects Obama’s policies are Bush’s policies. Like Bush, Obama has continued the bailouts and runaway spending.
Howard Portnoy on September 22, 2009 at 12:18 PM
The left positively *loves it* when Republicans are too “civil” to go after them hammer and tongs. I wish Bush would pop up every other day and just rip into the jug-eared Marxist in the White House.
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I’m sorry, but this “civility” nonsense just plays into their hands; they get to slam conservatives, their families, and their policies in the most vile terms imaginable … and we promptly kitten up and lick their hand.
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Gawd, I wish conservatives everywhere would grow a pair, stop being “civil” to these @sshats, and adopt the take-no-prisoners attitude that has characterized the left for the last 80 years or so.
Sheesh.
sanssoucy on September 22, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Well, there’s civility, and then there’s pacifism. Just because I like someone doesn’t mean I won’t beat them at tiddly-winks. And just because I fail to call someone a racial epithet doesn’t mean I don’t despise them for the ugly monster they may be.
fronclynne on September 22, 2009 at 12:32 PM
+1,000
Man, am I with you! I get tired of the knee-pad media and the DNC hirelings lecturing everyone about rudeness and then continually take a poke at us. When, oh when will folks wake up? I’m thinking 2010 and 2012..unless there’s another 9/12 pitchfork-and-torchlight special in Washington sooner.
VoyskaPVO on September 22, 2009 at 12:39 PM
jon1979 – exactly, if they’re going to flog a dead horse, then the results shouldn’t come as a surprise to them. I hope that the Blame Bush Doctrine is dropped long before I fear that it will be, though. How bereft of ideas must the Democrats be to recycle the Bush line?
Howard – the similarities are indeed numerous, to the discomfort of many on both sides. But, of course, Obama does the same things as Bush did “for the right reasons.” Love those Lefty double-standards.
sanssoucy, Voyska – my stance veers (so is along the lines of what fronclynne wrote). I love that Romney slammed the Democrats with his Carter-reference the other day and hope that more conservatives start doing likewise – the difference being that whereas Democrats see fit to mount national campaigns based on opposition to previous presidents, we do not, yet (as maybe that’ll change if the opportunity to twin Obama with Carter just becomes too good to pass up).
And I detest our weakness in the face of left-wing thuggery, as do you. There’s no point in remaining civil to those how consistently thank you by taking a dump on your doorstep.
But I’d rather not see former presidents from either side (although it almost always turns out to be those from the Left) weigh in with their views. President Bush refrains from doing so, Presidents Clinton and Carter not so much. Both sides have enough attack dogs without drawing former presidents into the mug-slinging, however much they might enjoy it.
Track-A-'Crat on September 22, 2009 at 1:56 PM