But I don't know who to be more angry at, Bush or McCain. I am angry at Bush in this context, for failing to enforce the law on the border, for failure to prosecute potentially criminal leaks at the CIA, for caving in to demands for a prosecutor in the Valerie Plame affair, for cravenly echoing liberals when they decry that leak as something worthy of national attention, for failure to prosecute voter fraud, for the attempted appointment of Harriet Myers, for failure to make its case on these issues to the American public and thereby permit his own reputation and the Republican brand to be brought to the verge of distruction.
In a perverse way, I can almost draw schadenfreude for the idea that Bush's folly and naïveté might finally brought home to him when he is prosecuted by the very people he sought to appease. But I can take no solace from that daydream because I know that at heart Bush is a good man who is very goodness prevented him from getting down into the muck with the Democrats and fighting his corner.
I am angry at John McCain. I am angry at John McCain for his failure to see his duty to morally destroy Barak Obama. Here again, my anger is tempered by the belief that his epiphany in his cell at the Hanoi Hilton was genuine and that he is proceeding from a conviction of the heart which is the heart of the patriot but not the heart of a partisan.
Both of these good men are leading the conservative cause to destruction with the best of intentions.
