re: #258 Killgore Trout

As long as republicans keep repeating that Bush’s problem was his “moderation,” well, I don’t have much hope for a turnaround.

Bush wasn’t a moderate. He was a big government, religious evangelical. And he was pretty darned incompetent, or hired an awful lot of pretty darned incompetent people who screwed a lot of stuff up. He had no clue about the economic meltdown that hit right before the presidential election. He had no clue that FEMA was screwing the pooch after Katrina (didn’t get better until LtGen Honore arrived to take charge; yes the military response was outstanding before that, but the civilian FEMA response was embarrassing). He had no clue how to handle the deteriorating situation in Iraq—went around all summer/fall of 2006 campaigning on “staying the course” in Iraq, when that course was going from bad to worse. McCain had been calling for an increase in troops, equipment, and different tactics since late 2004 (and “conservatives” like Limbaugh savaged him for it for years because he dared to criticize Bush.)

But no, Bush’s failures were all the MSM’s fault.

The GOP won’t win if it won’t grow up and face facts about what got them here.