Is Bush suppose to represent the “conservative” acquiencence? ‘splains a lot. Wrong premiss. Let's see.
1. We special delivered Bin Laden's family and other Saudi nationals out of the country, without investigating them.
2. A few days after 9-11 Bush paraded on stage with officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an Islamist organization, associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR. Imagine if after Pearl Harbor FDR paraded with some Shinto priests pushing for emperor worship and bushido or members of the Nazi-controlled German American Bund.
3. The CIA and FBI hired not just Muslim, but Islamist officials for sensitivity training.
I'm now up to November 2001. Should i continue?
The fact is that if Al Gore had done this we would all be screaming. But because a self-proclaimed conservative did, we rally around him for partisan reasons and define conservatism down.