“The lesson is obvious, Mr. President: You're a lot closer to Nixon than you are to Eisenhower, Reagan, and Clinton. And that's not where you want to be. Nixon's second term ended rather badly, as you will recall.”
When it comes to unprincipled grovelling and brown-nosed sychophantism, nothing surpassed the '04 GOP convention.
The endless, tedious, hyperbolic paeans to leadership of the Maximum Leader George W. Bush demonstrate the loyalty of the elephants.
The figures cited in the article as GOP rivals of the Bushites are either departing or are secondary figures.
In the case of the latter, their only prominence is in the novelty of GOP "opposition" to the Glorious Helmsman.
There will be no mass defections from the GOP or its Man of Destiny.
Political opponents of Bush must stop underestimating him and expecting him to fail.
These lowered expectations actually redound to his credit as he is repeatedly able to pass them off to his slavish followers as signs of his Ceasarean resiliency and resourcefulness.
The only effective opposition is to continue to point out that the Empereor has no clothes and to organize NOW at the grass roots level to beat the GOP juggernaut in the ground war in 06.
Robert Chapman
Lansing, New York
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on Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 11:13:41 AM
