Bushism and Latimerism
21st September 2009
The Other McCain has an analysis.
Alas, Bush had a knack for surrounding himself with mediocre minds, to which category Matt Latimer clearly belongs (along with David Kuo and Michael Gerson).
An analysis with which I substantially agree.
So it can be said that Bush the son sought to redeem the family name by reversing what were widely considered two of Bush the father’s biggest errors. (Critics of the Middle East policies
Nevertheless, Bush 43 had that same New England WASP Republican commitment to “respectability” — the Politics of Niceness — which was the intrinsic flaw of his father’s politics, and which is why New England WASP Republicans are a dying breed.
And rightly so.