Like Pundits From A Sinking Ship

Johno Johno

Yesterday Buckethead wrote:

One of the signal failures of the Bush administration has not been its judgment in the conduct of the war on terror; but rather its perverse inability to make a case for its actions. While I have been doing so on a ( very ) small scale along with numerous other bloggers and journalists, the unconvinced need to hear it from the man at the top. Bush should be screaming this news from the rooftops.

He is dead on target. In fact, it could do a lot of harm to Bush's reelection chances, and I can't say it's undeserved.

Matthew Yglesias notes that even Bill O'Reilly has even publicly expressed regret for supporting the President's "Weapons of Mass Destruction" thesis: "I was wrong. I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans should be concerned about this." Seriously, George. When Bill Fricking O'Reilly is off the bandwagon, you've got a problem.

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Don't get me wrong, I still think that the WMD threat was a good reason to move on Iraq. And conservative pundits expressing frustration with the administration does not mean that Bush will lose their support come November. The media loves the smell of blood, and would love to report on "conservative disillusionment with Bush" or "Bush losing base" or "conservaative infighting." There is very little chance that Bush will lose the support of the conservative base, for two reasons: 1) John Kerry and 2) Karl Rove

I just pray that Rove gets over his fixation with winning the Hispanic vote by pressing programs that nearly half of them don't like, and that half is the one most disposed to vote Republican anyway.

Buckethead Buckethead

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Buckethead, right on both counts. But defections like O'Reilly does make it all the harder for Bush to win soundly.

On another note, I will amend my previous opinion on the November elections: Anybody but Bush, unless it's John Kerry. If Bush is a low-down sack of manure, Kerry is a mealy-mouthed, spineless four-flushing nebbish of a Senator who should never be put in charge of ordering a pizza, much less the nation.

Johno Johno

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Well, I'm glad we agree on that. I could have coped, if grudgingly, with Edwards or Lieberman. But Kerry just... bothers me.

O'Reilly will be supporting Bush again before its all over. Except for Spoons, most conservatives would never consider rejecting Bush on the off chnace that they might get a better candidate next time.

Buckethead Buckethead

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But that doesn't mean I'm voting for W, either.

I'm going to write in the candidate of my conscience.

Johno Johno

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