This article from the January 5, 2004 issue of Rolling Stone gives a lot of good background on the Bush family. It features an interview with Kevin Phillips who wrote a book called "American Dynasty" about the Bush family. This snip from the article explains why I would include it better than I could.
The House of Bush
Rep. strategist Kevin Phillips on the Bush family's hunger for power
By Eric Bates Rolling Stone 1/5/04
http://www.rollingstone.com/features/nationalaffairs/featuregen.asp?pid=2751<snip>
But Phillips is no left-wing demagogue. He's not only a lifelong Republican, he's also the guy who literally wrote the book that became the blueprint for the party's dominance of presidential politics. Phillips served as the chief political strategist for Richard Nixon in 1968, and, in The Emerging Republican Majority, he formulated the "Southern Strategy" that helped hand the White House to the GOP for a generation.
In his new book American Dynasty, Phillips lays out his almost visceral distaste for what he calls "the politics of deceit in the House of Bush," accusing the administration of dishonesty and secrecy that would make Tricky Dick blush. He traces the course of Bush's family over the past 100 years, detailing how they sought influence "in the back corridors" of the oil and defense industries, investment banking and the intelligence establishment. Elites, not elections, put Bush in power. "I'm not talking about ordinary lack of business ethics or financial corruption," says Phillips, who recently registered as an Independent for the first time. "Four generations of building toward dynasty have infused the Bush family's hunger for power and practices of crony capitalism with a moral arrogance and backstage disregard of the democratic and republican traditions of the U.S. government." As a result, he says, "deceit and disinformation have become Bush political hallmarks."
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