Reply #144: Well, THAT was a bright idea.

[CBHagman]

:sarcasm:

"Conservative Web sites were all on fire Friday with reactions to Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen's announcement that he now supports George W. Bush for president. Gov. Bush, says Cohen, is the man who can best unite the nation after this divisive post-election experience, 'a conciliator, a likable guy who will make things better and not worse.'"

A "conciliator, a likable guy who will make things better and not worse"? Here among the cubicle rats, I can see how much more acrimonious politics are and what a beating bipartisanship has taken. And that's without going into the long-term fiscal, domestic, and foreign policy damage the Bush administration has inflicted.

If Cohen could believe in 2000 that Bush was conciliatory and inclined to make things better, he's had ample evidence debunking that belief since then. That Cohen could vote for that vindictive and incompetent thing in 2004 and still defend him in this fashion two years later speaks volumes on Cohen's self-delusion and moral failings.