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January 23, 2006

It Takes a Liberal to Catch a Neocon

James Wolcott nails the cult of Bush in a few brief sentences:

[I]t's clear that there's a homoerotic ardor for Bush by neonconservatives that bypasses reason and reduces them to hero-worshipping mush. By any rational measure and traditional conservative standard, Bush has been a disaster: exploding the budget, burdening future generations with back-breaking debt, packing the government with imcompetent cronies (so much for meritocracy), committing the nation to an aggressive, fiction-based war in Iraq that it can't win and will weaken the country in the region, alienating traditional allies (to the point where Spain tells to bug off re its air transport sales to Venezuela), and inflating the powers of an imperial presidency to an arrogant degree that would have horrified the original editors of National Review. The Bush mystique is a cult of manhood based upon the fantasy belief that America still stands tall, proud, brave, and unopposed in the world, basking in God's love and the Western sun. Even Clint Eastwood, whose movies have gotten progressively darker, doesn't buy that masculinist myth anymore. Only warmongering pundits and bloggers do. And Peggy Noonan, still searching for the perfect Dad.

Posted by Mike Tennant at January 23, 2006 02:10 PM

Comments

I cannot dispute a single thing about Wolcott's laundry list of charges against Bush. I do object to his demonization of the man and the ad hominum against Ms. Noonan and Mr. Podhoretz. It undermines all the rest of what Wollcott says IMHO. (You need to follow the link to read all this.)

Which is why the ideologues of socialist, fascist or any of the other species of statist politics can largely be dismissed the same as pissing matches between skunks. And for the same reason too.

Posted by: Ali_Massoud [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 28, 2006 10:01 PM

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