re: #92 metrolibertarian

While I hold no brief for the conservative movement, the left in 2005 looked eerily similar in its craziness until Katrina. The left and some Dems were celebrating people like Hugo Chavez, Cindy Sheehan, and George Galloway. Rumors that President Bush’s re-election was illegitimate because he “stole” Ohio were rampant on the internet, and even Keith Olbermann “investigated” this. The House even “looked” into it.

Then the Dems stopped, collected itself, and moved towards a less extreme position on the left/right spectrum, allowing people like Heath Shuler to run for office. If the GOP recognizes that politicians like Governor Crist of Florida are the way to go, it will revive itself.

Good comment. The Epic Fail of Katrina (yes, yes, I know that everybody had a hand in screwing the pooch, but the Feds looked entirely impotent, when they were the one entity that could have acted effectively, and didn’t) was a turning point for the Bush Presidency. When he said “Helluva job, Brownie.” he lost the rank and file.

Three words. Fancy that.