Posted on 09/21/2009 7:47:02 PM PDT by BufordP
If Matt Latimer’s new book had been released a few weeks ago, the Tea Party marchers would have hoisted him onto their shoulders and carried him -- laughing and cheering -- all the way up Capitol Hill.
Laughing, because Latimer’s new book,Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor, renews conservatives’ license to chuckle at ourselves. Cheering, because it lifts the burden of George W. Bush from our shoulders.
There are only two kinds of people who won’t like this book. First are the liberal media who tied the Gordian knot that binds conservatism to Bush.
As Byron York reported in the Washington Examiner, Latimer relates a conversation with President Bush in which the president said that there was no such thing as the “conservative movement” and quotes Bush as saying, "Look, I know this probably sounds arrogant to say, but I redefined the Republican Party."
And so he did. The media narrative that was built upon that redefinition also established false boundaries around the idea, and ideals, of conservatism. That narrative -- that Bushism is conservatism and conservatism is Bushism -- is now, thanks to Latimer, shattered.
The media will fight Latimer to defend their narrative. They created it to push John McCain as the Republicans’ only chance to win in 2008 and pave way for Barack Obama to campaign on it successfully. They will do their best to bury this book. They know that once the narrative is debunked -- and now it has been -- the restoration of conservatism as the main political force in America will be accomplished quickly.
The other people who will fight Latimer’s book are the gaggle of Bush political staffers whose careers depend on maintaining the media narrative. They are already out there -- former White House
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HAHA! Be that as it may...
George W. Bush = LOSER! FAILURE! ClueLESS
Turns out that voice he heard that he thought was his Father( the Father ) , was really George Soros setting him up with stupid ideas to destroy conservatism, or maybe GWB just worked for democrats after all.
I chose the line, not the man.
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