So Many Republican Hypocrites, So Little Time

July 8, 2005 |

George W. Bush

Welcome back to the BuzzFlash.com GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

The only thing that George W. Bush has succeeded at in life is failure -- and now the United States and the whole world has paid the price.

When you are born into an elitist, wealthy family, you expect -- like kings and queens -- total loyalty, regardless of your ability. That is the essence of Bushevism: protect the dynasty. Say whatever you have to say; do whatever you have to do, but protect the dauphin prince at all costs.

So it doesn't matter to the Busheviks that our soldiers, Iraqis and foreigners are dying in an endless quagmire, a terrorist heaven that Bush created in a colossal blunder. They can't admit their mistake, because Bush's credibility is solely built upon his stubborn delusions, which the press spins as resolve.

Bush ran for office in 2000 deriding that Clinton allegedly ran the government by polls, while Bush asserted that he would only rule by morally sound principles, whatever the fickle public might think. Only, it isn't true. This is, perhaps, the most focus group, poll-driven administration in history.

In fact the Washington Post reported the origins of Bush's current mantra of "We are committed to winning" in Iraq: "Yes, the very same White House that outwardly exudes contempt for polls has in fact recently hired a prominent academic pollster onto the National Security Council staff and has concluded that the key to public support for the war is not the number of casualties in Iraq, nor whether the war was right or wrong -- but whether people feel like we're going to win."

So, its not about fighting terrorism or about the unnecessary loss of life and limb; it's, as usual, about Bush, the spoiled rich kid who believes the world revolves around him.

And so the man who said he would never make decisions by polls is continuing a war that makes no sense by using findings from polling about how to sell a failure. That's hypocrisy on a tragic scale, a hypocrisy that has brought death, torture and catastrophic injuries into far too many families to count.

There are some hypocrisies that can just never be forgiven; this is one of them.

Until next week, remember our motto at BuzzFlash.com: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.

Catch up with you soon.