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Bush's lingering presence over his party
Bush's lingering presence over his party
By Steve Benen
Over the weekend, Bill Maher presented a worthwhile new rule about the Republican Party and its reluctance to acknowledge the most recent GOP president.
"Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and I need them to admit the historical existence of George W. Bush," Maher explained. "If your party can run the nation for eight years and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, or Tom DeLay, you're not a political movement, you're the witness protection program."
To borrow a Homer Simpson line, it's funny because it's true. Bush is the only former president from either party in 40 years to stay away his first national convention after leaving office, and for the most part, Republicans pretended he doesn't exist.
But before the political world completely shifts its attention from Tampa to Charlotte, it's worth pausing to appreciate the fact that Bush and Cheney may be carefully hiding from public view, and the GOP may seem largely ashamed of them, but their influence hasn't faded at all.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/03/13636086-bushs-lingering-presence-over-his-party
By Steve Benen
Over the weekend, Bill Maher presented a worthwhile new rule about the Republican Party and its reluctance to acknowledge the most recent GOP president.
"Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and I need them to admit the historical existence of George W. Bush," Maher explained. "If your party can run the nation for eight years and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, or Tom DeLay, you're not a political movement, you're the witness protection program."
To borrow a Homer Simpson line, it's funny because it's true. Bush is the only former president from either party in 40 years to stay away his first national convention after leaving office, and for the most part, Republicans pretended he doesn't exist.
But before the political world completely shifts its attention from Tampa to Charlotte, it's worth pausing to appreciate the fact that Bush and Cheney may be carefully hiding from public view, and the GOP may seem largely ashamed of them, but their influence hasn't faded at all.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/09/03/13636086-bushs-lingering-presence-over-his-party
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