Why the GOP must come to terms with George W. Bush's disastrous presidency

[Zorro]

The party cannot chart a course to future victory until it makes peace with past failures

It's still freezing in much of country, but it's springtime for Republican intellectuals.

With the Romney debacle behind them, a number of analysts have gone public with accounts of the party's failures and ambitious proposals for its reform. Over the last few weeks, Ross Douthat, Michael Gerson and Pete Wehner, Yuval Levin, Ramesh Ponnuru, Jim Pethothoukis, David Frum, and Tod Lindberg have all weighed in on where the GOP should go.

The proposals include promising ideas, such as emphasizing tax and regulatory simplification over income tax cuts, or moving away from hardline positions on abortion and gay marriage. Nevertheless, these plans are a misleading point of departure for GOP renewal. That's because their authors remain in denial about the cause of Republicans' unpopularity: the catastrophic failure of the Bush presidency.

More at: http://news.yahoo.com/why-gop-must-come-terms-george-w-bushs-063000331.html

[noel711]

1. Nah.... that's why Jeb is already front and center...

jockeying for a pole position in the coming race....

W? Who?

[riqster]

2. K & R. A good article nt

[niyad]

3. "where the gop should go"... straight to h***, do not pass go, do not collect 2 trillion dollars.

is this more of the same, "we will just change the WAY we say things, not what we actually think"?

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

4. "It's the trifecta, stupid!"

Bush exploited his opening, to accomplish many things the Repugs wanted. It turns out that people didn't actually like what the Repugs wanted, however, now that we all have to live with the results. Bad ideas, ugly agenda, both covered over with lies. The final outcomes reveal the lies and expose the ideas and agenda. The Repug solution to their dilemma will be... covering it over with newer lies.

[rachel1]

5. I really wonder if anybody supporting civilian-slaughtering & warmongering politicians can ever

come to terms with whom they've supported.

One would assume that all the blowback and the civilian casualties would be convincing enough...