Indeed, since he never had to face re-election again, he couldn't have cared less about 2008 and made no moves to prepare the GOP for big fight with the Rats that lay ahead. Instead, he appointed his hack buddy Mel Martinez as the RNC chairman, and gleefully spent ALL of political capital (and then some) on trying to shove Amnesty down our throats. McCain was complicit in this and forever became associated with Bush.
In the meantime, the Republican national network withered on the vine, while the Rats ramped up their Soro-backed grass roots organizations and began to tear us apart on the streets.
So here we are...
I saw that careless, stupid side of GWB myself. A couple of days before the 2006 election, George W. Bush lied and said he intended to keep Don Rumsfeld as the Secretary of Defense, implying no big changes in his failed Iraq policy.
As a result, many voters through out Republican Congressmen who supported the war.
The day after the 2006 Election, Bush broke his word and promptly fired Rumsfeld. If he had done it a couple of days before, at least 8 GOP seats could have been saved.
But instead, Bush lied about it right before the election. What did Bush care about the GOP?