National Review columnist: Bush is incompetent and inept

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It must really suck to be a Republican these days. Just when you think you've come up with an effective half-truth to excuse the latest criminal act, the day's news brings yet another scandal ... and another ...

It's enough to wear down even Scottie McClellan. But at least one GOP scribe has thrown in the towel. The following is from George Conway, husband of Kellyanne Conway. he and his wife do a joint column for the National Review

http://conways.nationalreview.com/archives/094549.asp

I've never voted for a Democrat in a general election in my life, and I don't expect to anytime soon, but it's been impossible for me over the past couple of years to get enthused about the Republican party. I voted for President Bush twice, and contributed to his campaign twice, but held my nose when I did it the second time. I don't consider myself a Republican any longer. Thanks to this Administration and the Republicans in Congress, the Republican Party today is the party of pork-barrel spending, Congressional corruption — and, I know folks on this web site don't want to hear it, but deep down they know it's true — foreign and military policy incompetence. Frankly, speaking of incompetence, I think this Administration is the most politically and substantively inept that the nation has had in over a quarter of a century. The good news about it, as far as I'm concerned, is that it's almost over.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Problem with this kind of criticism is that they don't think jr is

far enough to the right. So, even though I agree with the basic premise, it's for all the wrong reasons.

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3. Except that the kind of government they want

Hasn't existed since Herbert Hoover. What they see is what they are going to get from the Republican Party. I think's that's what has so many Republicans disillusioned -- they have realized that this is as good as it gets with the GOP.

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2. just imagine what hell he'd create if he were ept!

[gator_in_Ontario]

4. VERY scary thought

Sounds like a Hitchcock/King collaboration :scared:

[Gman]

5. He shoulda been here around DU in 2001

Bush's incompetence was always a major topic back then. What took him so long?

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7. Well...

better late than never.

Besides, the guy is married to Kellyanne Conway. Hasn't he been punished enough?

[Skittles]

6. self-serving piece of SHIT asshole

anyone with an ounce of brains could see from the start that incompetent bastard bush was not qualified to be president - lord, I am SICK of these WHORES attempting to wash their hands of him NOW, after voting for him TWICE

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8. "Held my nose . . . the second time"

Oh yeah, I believe that. I remember being startled by all the columns out of the National Review about how incompetent Bush was and is, and how everybody there was holding their collective nose and voting for him anyway, because the prospect of that awful John Kerry and his show-off Purple Hearts in the White House just gave them the vapors.

I smell something unpleasant coming off this column, and it's not just because it's discussing Stupidhead's incompetence. A distinct whiff of . . . could it be bullshit?

[blm]

9. Yeah - the same media that kept BushInc propped up and protected for years

and now they want to pretend they didn't.

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13. Yeah but this quotable quote needs to be bookmarked by all of us

"foreign and military policy incompetence" - said of the Republicans, by a conservative columnist.

Can we stick a fork in them yet?

[rman]

10. It must suck to keep getting away with all these convenient incompetencies

Yeah , it really sucks to be a gangster in the WH in to just stick it to everyone.

[leesa]

11. The Republicans got exactly what their short-sighted, greedy, policies

were bound to get them. All their dreams came true. It's just that the result was the nightmare 'the leftists' have always predicted with unfettered capitalism and a rampant out-of-control military industrial complex

[Supersedeas]

12. almost over??

[PurityOfEssence]

14. There is no Bush; there never has been

He's a nobody. His father is a nobody. His grandfather (Preston) was something somewhat short of a nobody, but he was also an ugly thing.

This family exemplifies the danger of aristocracy: those with little or no ability are catapulted (joke intended) to the higher reaches of power regardless of competence.