Conservatives Backing Away From Bush Plus, I'm the Commander Guy!

From Mother Jones

Like rats leaving a sinking ship...

That tinkle you hear these days is the sound of scales falling from the eyes of right-wing Washington pundits as they are oh-so-dismayed to discover that somehow, while they weren't watching, the country fell into the hands of a systematically lawless, reckless, corrupt, and authoritarian circle of false conservatives.

Did he change between the time they heralded him as a conservative hero and the time they threw up their hands deploring his errors?

Was his stupendous malfeasance a sign, perhaps, that they missed something essential in his nature way back in the glory days when they welcomed him unquestioningly into their hearts?

You can appreciate the conservative dilemma. They now have to wash their hands of the Bush catastrophe without taking any responsibility for it. An example:

George Will Before

"Critics…say Bush is a modest man with much to be modest about, and that he lacks complexity. But modesty is a political virtue and is especially desirable in the next president, who will replace the egomaniacal vulgarian [Bill Clinton]." —Washington Post, 11/5/00

George Will After

"This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be counted on to think and, having thought, to have second thoughts. Thinking is not the reiteration of bromides…." —Washington Post, 5/5/04

Will we be in the Middle East longer than we've been in Korea?

"Like rats leaving a sinking ship..."

It really restores my faith in democracy to see it's possible for Conservative Republicans to have eyes without scales over them.

RATS??

There AINT no STINKING rats!!

They is Skunks and Pole cats..and a few dozen cockroaches...