Bailing on Bush By Howard Kurtz /WaPo

[Demeter]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/06/05/BL2007060500451_pf.html

Bailing on Bush

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 5, 2007; 7:22 AM



Now that the Bush ship has hit its share of icebergs, it's interesting to watch how many conservatives are heading for the lifeboats.

The immigration bill, and the president's aggressive defense of the measure, has really ticked off some of his remaining pundit supporters. But the disaffection on the right has been building for some time, as I've chronicled in this space.

Which raises an interesting question: Let's say you support someone running for the White House, you support him as president, you roundly criticize your ideological opponents for taking potshots at your man and not recognizing his greatness.

Then, you have to admit, he screws up. He makes mistakes. He fails to live up to your high hopes and parts company with you on key issues. You feel betrayed.

If you're intellectually honest and not just a partisan water-carrier, you level with your readers or viewers. But questions arise: Why did it take six years for you to figure this out? Do you owe an apology to those you castigated for making the kind of criticism that you are now echoing? Or do you simply try to airbrush the past?

[damntexdem]

1. Those aren't lifeboats! Those are just ropes.

The rats are walking on them, abandoning the sinking ship, hoping the ropes lead to a wharf. ;-)

[Hand]

2. Including you, HOwie...

Arsehole.

[Demeter]

3. True!

:rofl:

[Jack Rabbit]

4. OK

Salon's Glenn Greenwald accuses conservatives of revisionist history:

"The great fraud being perpetrated in our political discourse is the concerted attempt by movement conservatives, now that the Bush presidency lay irreversibly in ruins, to repudiate George Bush by claiming that he is not, and never has been, a 'real conservative.'"

Bush isn't a conservative. He's a fascist.

[TrogL]

5. No True Scotsman logical fallacy

"The great fraud being perpetrated in our political discourse is the concerted attempt by movement conservatives, now that the Bush presidency lay irreversibly in ruins, to repudiate George Bush by claiming that he is not, and never has been, a 'real conservative.'