Wingnuts attempt to throw Bush under the bus....forget that they're tethered to him

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



CPAC Organizer David Keene Claims Conservatives Were Fed Up With Bush ‘For Some Time’

This year at the Conservative Political Action Conference, most of the speakers have spent their time bashing President Obama, while generally avoiding the subject of President Bush.Speaking this morning, Newt Gingrich tried to tie the two together, repeatedly calling Obama’s economic agenda the “Bush/Obama plan” and decried the “big spending” of both presidents. “We didn’t get real change,” Gingrich said.

Yesterday, TalkingPointsMemo spoke with David Keene, the chairman of the CPAC-organizing American Conservative Union and a former aide to Bob Dole, who suggested that conservatives have been frustrated with Bush for years. He said criticism of Bush was “consistent with the belief we’ve had for some time.” Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/27/keene-pretends-to-hate-bush/


Keene has a short memory. Last year, he expressed his “delight” that Bush would be attending the 2008 conference, calling it “a great opportunity for thousands of conservatives” to “evaluate the accomplishments of his administration.” As for the conservative community, when Bush stood up to speak, the entire audience rapturously chanted, “Four more years!”

And the adulation hasn’t ended. ThinkProgress reporters attending CPAC noted that there are large photos of Bush and Cheney speaking at CPAC last year hanging in the very front of the main hall. See below:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/27/keene-pretends-to-hate-bush/

[izquierdista]

1. As with any set of stupid ideas

The reason they didn't work is that you didn't apply them stupidly enough. :silly:

[Somawas]

4. That is one of the most insightful posts I have ever seen on DU. nt

[malaise]

2. They're lunatics

They will do anything and say anything to promote their ambitions.
Their only consistent themes are greed and war.

[pipi_k]

3. Whatever they claim, I don't think this is anything more than

an attempt to throw Obama under the bus using Bush as the catapult.

They know how popular Obama is, and they know how unpopular Bush was near the end.

I think they're trying to drag Obama down in the eyes of many of his supporters by linking him with Bush, who was already toast anyway.


Don't think it's gonna work....

:+