How precious.
You do know the Neocon tag as an indictment for everything that is true and blue and beautiful, has lost traction, even on this site, don't you? You would make a suck lawyer. You don't know how to use a knife to go for the critical artery, and instead just damage subcutaneous tissue. By the way, Bush is not ever going to run again for anything. As one who has become somewhat disenchanted with Bush, the exercise of Bush bashing seems just so yesterday. The issue is, what do we do now? Bush is not going to change his hard wired views to accommodate anyone. What you see with Bush, is what you get.
Bush is not a complex man. He never took Machiavelli to heart. In fact, I doubt if he ever read him, which is a pity, because I quite like the M man, and in fact wrote a rather serious paper about him in college.
It's not Bush-bashing. The initial article posted in this thread discussed Bush's impact on the GOP, and I'm merely saying that I agree with it to a certain extent. Whether we like it or not, Bush WILL be a factor in 2006 and 2008. He really shouldn't be, because not all Republicans are like Bush and Bush isn't like all Republicans, but politics is politics. Just as we tried to link Gore to Clinton's corruption back in 2000, you know Hillary or whoever else will do the same in 2008 with respect to Bush. As a result, Bush owes it to this party to have the White House communicate better, to promote policy that Republicans can be proud of, and to do anything he can to make sure the GOP ISN'T demonized as the party of corruption or incompetence. He may not be running again, but the party certainly will be. It's the least he could do.