Conservatives Suddenly Forget What The Bush Doctrine Is

10:09 am EST September 12th, 2008 | News | 11 Comments

Perhaps they need John McCain to explain it to them, but this conservative whine in the wake of Sarah Palin’s flub during her interview with John Gibson that gave us what is now being called the “moose in the headlights” moment, is just ridiculous. Anyone paying attention to politics knows what the Bush doctrine of preemptive war is all about, and if you’re running to be one heartbeat away you better freaking know what it is.

These attempts to define away the doctrine just end up sounding like the following:

“It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If ‘is’ means ‘is and never has been’ that’s one thing – if it means ‘there is none’, that was a completely true statement”

The difference is that the suddenly verklempt conservative commentariat has none of the wit nor charm of Bill Clinton.

The cons keep saying that because average Americans don’t know what the doctrine is, this excuses McCain/Palin’s ignorance. The problem is the average American isn’t running to be a leader of millions of people. The last eight years have shown us what happens when we expect the least of our leaders – it drives the country into a ditch.

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11 Responses to “Conservatives Suddenly Forget What The Bush Doctrine Is”

  1. Dennis says:
    September 12, 2008 at 10:26 am

    Bush Doctrine? Who’s Bush?

    This is the team of Change and Reform and Country First.

    And Sarah America will be in charge of Reform; not worrying about hypotheticals of what some ex-President’s world views used to be. That will be done by the top of the ticket.

    She had just said her good-byes to Track as he was headed off to Iraq. No one could expect her to be at the top of her game on that day and you could see it in her face. Americans can all relate to that.

    Absolute moral authority for that one day at least.

  2. Jaim says:
    September 12, 2008 at 10:42 am

    How about foreign policy authority? How about foreign policy _familiarity_?

    She’s a joke. Bill Kristol and the other serious He-men of CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT are going to have a hard time finding more lipstick for her.

    But as others have said, it’s really about he relatively few remaining undecideds right now. And Palin ain’t going to bring any of them over to her with incompetent performances like this one.

  3. Tim says:
    September 12, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    If it makes you feel better, keep minimizing her. Just look at history to see what happens to those who underestimate their “opponents”.

    Who cares whether or not she knows whats labeled as “The Bush Doctrine”. Most Americans couldnt have even told you if she got it “right” or not.

    The bottom line on that issue – and what Americans care about more – is whether or not she believes a preemptive strike on/in another country is on the table as an appropriate action to protect us. Most Americans will be satisfied that she addressed that question.

    But of course, media pundants (and now most “reporters” as well) and party loyalists have to put their spin on it to reinforce/justify their preconceived bias.

  4. jr says:
    September 12, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    “Sarah’s white, that’s the only thing that matters. It’s fine she is like Ms. South Carolina”-repubs

  5. KXB says:
    September 12, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    Oliver,

    “Charlie Gibson” – John Gibson was the douche on Fox News.

  6. Oliver Willis says:
    September 12, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    Who cares whether or not she knows whats labeled as “The Bush Doctrine”.
    If she doesn’t know the answer then she better keep her butt in Alaska and out of our White House.

  7. essrog says:
    September 12, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Way to lower those goalposts, kids! Why don’t we just cut to the inevitable end where you ask, Who cares what she does or doesn’t know? Who cares whether or not she’s underqualified? Who cares if she’s under investigation for abuse of power? Who cares whether she’s flipflopping and then blatantly lying, when we have slogans that fit neatly on these signs?

    Did I leave anything out?

  8. PD100 says:
    September 12, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    “The Bush Doctrine”?
    You mean “The Refutation of Nuremburg”?

  9. Just John says:
    September 12, 2008 at 5:49 pm

    She acted like she never heard the word doctrine used like that before.
    Monroe Doctrine
    Truman Doctrine

    She should have covered that in high school.

  10. Zython says:
    September 12, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    If it makes you feel better, keep minimizing her. Just look at history to see what happens to those who underestimate their “opponents”.

    You people said the same thing about Fred Thompson.

    She had just said her good-byes to Track as he was headed off to Iraq. No one could expect her to be at the top of her game on that day and you could see it in her face. Americans can all relate to that.

    I don’t think most Americans can relate to having a child with a stupid name. Seriously, “Track”? “Bristol”? “Triginometry”? They’re human beings, not pets. Though I wouldn’t expect Palin to know the difference.

  11. Jaim says:
    September 12, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    “You people said the same thing about Fred Thompson.”

    And Rudolph Giuliani.