re: #379 Talking Point Detective

I don’t think the term was completely empty for Bush. It was completely empty for Rove, however:

From the same source:

I’m not inclined to give Bush the pass that some of the folks here seem to be inclined to do. I suspect it’s because some of them weren’t concerned about what Bush was doing when he was doing it. For others, what we have today was the logical extension of what was happening back then.

I think Kuo left the administration in disgust pretty quickly when it became clear that his organization was going to get a budget of only 1% of what they wanted.

The GOP was a pretty conservative party in 2000. But it’s lurched far to the right over the last 3 years. Purely anecdotal, but I know plenty of people—from all walks of life—who voted for Bush at least once but now view the GOP as poison.