Former Texas GOP chairman Tom Pauken blasts Bush, Rove in new book

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Source: Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN – As Karl Rove makes the rounds this week with his memoir burnishing the Bush legacy, another book by another Texas Republican offers a decidedly different view.

Former state GOP chairman Tom Pauken, a Dallas lawyer and foot soldier in the Reagan revolution, offers a sober counterpoint to Rove's full-throated defense of his former boss.

In Pauken's view, the former president and "Bush's Brain" not only hijacked conservatism, they nearly destroyed it.

"Republican politics is barely recognizable to many of us who were grassroots activists in the early days of the conservative movement – especially after eight years of a Republican administration headed up by George W. Bush, who claimed to be a conservative," Pauken writes in Bringing America Home.

He adds: "The results were not pretty."

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/columnists/wslater/stories/030910dntexslater.18ba40c18.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. Too late for the Republicon Rats to abandon S.S. AWOL Bush

Sheesh. Where were they over the last 8 years of Republicon FAIL? AWOL Bush was just the head of the Republicon snake that attacked America.

This crap don't float...

[hatrack]

2. Former GOP Chair Unveils New Book, "The No True Scotsman Fallacy"

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[47of74]

3. Cry me a fucking river, Mr. Pauken

Dear Mr. Pauken,

Cry me a fucking river. You guys were silent while Bush, Rove, et al shit all over the Constitution. So now I'm supposed to care that you think that Bush, Rove, et al are bad Republicans.

[zbdent]

4. Interesting that Pauken praised Bush in December 2008 ...

Link: http://www.twc.state.tx.us/svcs/commrs/121708chr.pdf

"praising" Bush for bailing out the auto industry (um, wasn't that Obama? And that was with loans, unlike the blank check Bush gave to the banks.)

[Javaman]

5. It's fun to watch repukes eating their own.

This failure has been silent for a long time, NOW he wants to speak up.