Comments on: Savaging McCain http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/19/savaging-mccain/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:43:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: SpiderJ http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/19/savaging-mccain/#comment-62184 SpiderJ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:38:33 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5225#comment-62184 There's a level of denial in the GOP base that began with the "Bush isn't really that conservative" trope, and it's led to them trying to find somebody who's <i>really</i> as conservative as they thought Bush was. The irony being, of course, that Bush really was the right-wing ideologue they wanted, and attempting to run a candidate with the same positions in 2008 will only get them clobbered. There’s a level of denial in the GOP base that began with the “Bush isn’t really that conservative” trope, and it’s led to them trying to find somebody who’s really as conservative as they thought Bush was.

The irony being, of course, that Bush really was the right-wing ideologue they wanted, and attempting to run a candidate with the same positions in 2008 will only get them clobbered.

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