Bush is now hated even in Texas: Peggy Noonan

Too bad Peggy and the Texans waited so long to recognize that the emperor has no clothes. Millions of us saw this (and warned about it!) in 1999 when the idiot was running for president the first time--trailing a mile-wide stench of Texas pollution and arrogant elitism and entitlement behind him. All of us have had to suffer because of the blinders the Republican conservatives wore then (some still wear them and will no doubt die defending Bush, Cheney, and the neocons).

However, now that most of them have taken off the Bush blinders, they are putting on, instead, McCain blinders--which are not in the least bit different--and they're calling it new seeing. God help us all if they once again succeed in sticking the rest of us with their choice. That might just happen, with the help of the "liberal" (HAH!) media that helped bring about 8 years of Bush/Cheney and seems determined to deify McCain.

But all is not lost--yet. It appears even Bush's daughter Jenna is thinking of abandoning the Republican party's nominee. This gives me hope that some intelligence actually exists in the Bush bloodline--and perhaps in the majority of Republican voters, too. As for the mainstream media, except for MSNBC, I have given up all hope of the corporate-controlled U.S. journalists (so-called) bringing us anything but ditto-head propaganda, cherry-picked and chosen by Rupert Murdock and his elitist cohorts--and disseminated by the Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter type zombies under their command.

http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html

EXCERPT:

In Lubbock, Texas – ...the heart of Texas conservatism – they dislike President Bush. He has lost them. I was there and saw it. Confusion has been followed by frustration has turned into resentment, and this is huge. Everyone knows the president's poll numbers are at historic lows, but if he is over in Lubbock, there is no place in this country that likes him. I made a speech and moved around and I was tough on him and no one – not one – defended or disagreed. I did the same in North Carolina recently, and again no defenders. I did the same in Fresno, Calif., and no defenders, not one. He has left on-the-ground conservatives...feeling undefended, unrepresented and alone. This will have impact down the road.

The reasons for the quiet break with Mr. Bush: spending, they say first, growth in the power and size of government, Iraq. I imagine some of this: a fine and bitter conservative sense that he has never had to stand in his stockinged feet at the airport holding the bin, being harassed. He has never had to live in the world he helped make, the one where grandma's hip replacement is setting off the beeper here and the child is crying there. And of course as a former president, with the entourage and the private jets, he never will. I bet conservatives don't like it. I'm certain Gate 14 doesn't.