Posted on 09/16/2009 12:10:22 PM PDT by TBP
Bush was preparing to give a speech to the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. The conference is the event of the year for conservative activists; Republican politicians are required to appear and offer their praise of the conservative movement.
Latimer got the assignment to write Bush's speech. Draft in hand, he and a few other writers met with the president in the Oval Office. Bush was decidedly unenthusiastic.
"What is this movement you keep talking about in the speech?" the president asked Latimer.
Latimer explained that he meant the conservative movement -- the movement that gave rise to groups like CPAC.
"Let me tell you something," the president said. "I whupped Gary Bauer's ass in 2000. So take out all this movement stuff. There is no movement."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The Republican Party long ago ceased to be any kind of effective vehicle for advancing conservatism.
Do you remember when Ed Gillespie (then RNC chairman) said there was no place in the party for limited government types?
....Sorry, Mr.Bush, your time has come and gone, the conservative base has risen and it is working to take back the GOP.
I’m laughing right now at all the diehard GOP voters here on FR. You guys remind me of the typical beaten wife one sees attacking the cops as they haul away her abusive husband. “But Ah still loves him!” they cry. “Ah can change him!”
LOL
What year did this happen in since President Bush has not been in the Oval office for some time.
Yeah, thanks for that W...
He done remade the GOP so good they can’t even mount a filibuster.
Up until a couple of days ago, I had never heard of this Litimer guy. It sounds like he’s got an axe or two to grind.
Verify before firing begins.
Very typical.
http://www.podiumpundits.com/2009/09/16/the-speechwriter-as-gossipmonger/
.....one of the most warmed-over clichés about the Bush Administration: “[Chris Michel] was usually chipper, though at the moment his face was so pale he must have been the whitest man in the Bush White House. And that was no small accomplishment.”
Yowza! Republicans are white and out of touch. That’s fresh.
But wait, there’s more in that vein. Describing a previous job on Capitol Hill, Latimer writes: “I was assigned to coach Republican senators on how to reach out to the media and entertainment world. (You try explaining The View to a group of 65-year-old white Republican men.)”
Hah – ‘cause they’re white and men and old – they probably smell like Ben-Gay. And they’re clueless. White men are incapable of understanding four women who sit around a table and talk to each other on TV.
Yes, he did redefine the Republican Party.
However not for the better. As evidenced by the choice of McCain as the Standard Bearer.
Others in the mix were lost because of rule changes by Nat’l GOP Party leaders and by the go-along-get-along MSM.
End result: a screwing of the American people.
Yes, ‘We the People’ got screwed!
No one had.
Yet now he's the new hero for the knee-jerk crowd.
And yes, the best thing a former POTUS can do is ride off into the sunset...... silently.
Here we go again. Looks like “former White House speechwriter Matt Latimer” is hawking his tell-all book. Ooooh-ahhh...
What in the hell are you talking about? Nop One is posting their love of Bush on this tread...yet.
I for one can’t stand the socialist scummbag.
Latimer loves Obama....as he said in the WP recently:
“Obama is smarter than this. On the campaign trail, his speeches, in clear, coherent English...... Even some of us in the Bush White House studied Obama’s speeches and marveled at their grace.”
Yep, post-Katrina, right in the middle of his supine second term. "Redefine" must be another way of saying "surrender to the leftists".
GW is. The quote is from two years ago. This is a hit piece designed to sow dissention between conservatives who want to turn the GOP back to Reagan-style conservatism and conservatives who want to dump the GOP as a lost cause. (I could go either way. Both sides have good points, but now is NOT the time for dissension among conservatives. This question will answer itself, or rather the GOP will by how it acts in the coming months.)
That's Hilarious.
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