Rush Limbaugh is interviewing him right now and wrapping up the interview as I type this. Asked him about TARP and the tea partiers, why he did not defend himself against attacks, etc..
“why he did not defend himself against attacks, etc..”
Because he didn’t have time to argue with idiots?
I just listened to the Rush interview and it make me grind my teeth. If his deficiency can be summed up in a phrase, he still mistakenly believes that politics can be a gentleman’s game. It ain’t and you have to get your knuckles bloody if you’re going to be truly effective.
He COULD have defended himself and his policies without lowering the office of president. That year-after-year steady drumbeat of attacks on him AND on the war effort may not have bothered him personally but it wore down the national morale and spooked his political allies.
And he still bullheadedly defends his transparent amnesty scheme; simply refusing to call amnesty by its true name does not make it something else. That did more to demoralize and outrage conservatives than any other single mistake. That rancid noblesse oblige that is the curse of the Bush family kept his administration from being as effective as it could have been.
Yeah, and he mistakenly thought it was beneath him and his dignity to defend Scooter Libby. He could have done plenty about the long-running Valerie Plame sideshow and did not.