Will George W Bush be blamed for collapse of "Republican Revolution"?

[kentuck]

Probably not immediately, but a year or two from now, when the Repubs look even worse in hindsight than they do today? Will the vipers in his Party turn against him? Or will they continue to worship him as some type of prophet and leader, ahead of his times?

When they see that they may be a minority for a long, long time, will that change their perspective of Dubya? If they do or not, it doesn't matter. The "Republican Revolution" is over. Let them blame whomever they wish.

[bullimiami]

1. its already obvious. bush and his hamfisted greedy cronies have destroyed

in a few short years what the republicans had worked for decades to achive.

[opihimoimoi]

2. They can blame themselves...they lied cheated stole for the SOB

and now they wanna blame...???

Of course they do, thats what they do best...blame, distort, distract...

They should be looking in the Mirror for this one....they have no one but themselves to Blame...

[kentuck]

3. Good point...

They need to look in the mirror.

[bullimiami]

15. the stupid gop enabled their own destruction, every day and every time

they let bushco run rabid through the constitution and laws.

boo fucking hoo for them.

[longship]

4. It's not Bush.

It's the Republican Revolution itself which is collapsing.

Bush is merely the current implementation of the so-called policies of the Rep Rev. ;-)

That's the way this needs to be portrayed.

[Ishoutandscream2]

5. Yes, I believe George and the religious right

will be blamed.

[Labors of Hercules]

6. The Republican Revolution will stay finished if...

Their cult commits suicide and the Dems bring good decisionmaking back to reality. "Only when sound decisions reach their fruition do the poor ramifications of the past become a cry for justice" -O'connor.

[wryter2000]

10. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[Labors of Hercules]

11. Thanks!

:toast:

[newyawker99]

14. Hi Labors of Hercules!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[hijinx87]

7. I certainly hope not.

rethug corruption and lust for power needs to be clearly the
object of blame. to the extent that * takes the blame, their
incompetence and corruption is blameless.

[katsy]

8. No, they will not blame him.

They won't care at all about him.

The government is all about power and money. Multinational corporations/defense own the repubics, the money and the power.

In that sense, the "republican revolution" is intact and thriving.

While the rest of us are horrified & diminished as human beings by this administrations lies, corruption, murder and criminality (torture, spying), bushco* has accomplished much in advancing their agenda.

They are working towards privatizing Iraq's oil and will probably succeed. A win for big oil, a loss for the Iraqi people.

They've sold off many of our natural resources, highways etc to foreign entities.

They've run up the deficit at our expense.

They have succeeded in giving corporations the okay to obtain cheap labor through out- and in-sourcing. Free trade is demolishing the middle class and has done little to alleviate poverty around the globe. They put these policies in place not only without having any social safety nets in place for displaced American workers... but with policies like the bankruptcy bill and corporate welfare (big pharma, oil, insurance cos.). The more American people that live in poverty and hopelessness, less opposition and empowerment to demand change, the weaker our Democracy.

They have succeeded in merging religion and government with the faith based welfare policy. Tithing is no longer enough, organized religion will fight tooth and nail for the repubics policies.

There's no doubt in my mind that they let 911 happen. Instilling fear in the people has worked for them before and will probably keep working with a less educated population.

The neocon agenda is intact.

Get the picture?

[wryter2000]

9. I don't care who gets blamed

As long as the "Revolution" is over.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. Well, I had a fundamentalist tell my husband

that she has decided Bush is the anti-Christ and has scripture to prove it. So at least part of his base has seen the light.

[Lexingtonian]

13. in the long run, probably not

That would be like blaming John Bell Hood for the failure of the Rebellion and the Confederacy.

Hood was a reactionary, a fanatic, and a stupid front line leader late in that war, just like Dubya. He wasted most of a crucial Confederate army in badly planned battles and thereby yielded territory to his opponent that turned out to be strategically fatal to the whole attempt at empire. Hood was either extremely timid or extremely aggressive as a leader- the aggression bought him a lot of success against the earlier, inept and timid and unprepared, Federal commanders. But the aggressiveness backfired, quickly destroyed his own army on the battlefields, when he attacked smarter and harder generals than himself.

There's quite a parallelism of the Civil War military fight and the political strife of the 'Republican Revolution' if you expand the cyclic time units of the Civil War- single years- to each represent roughly four years (Presidential terms) in the present. It doesn't work out perfectly, but as a matter of action and characters you can match JB Hood to GWB, Rosencrans to Gore, Joe Johnson to GHWB, Brixton Bragg to Cheney, Sherman to Kerry, Grant to Bill Clinton, Sheridan to Nancy Pelosi, Meade to Daschle/Reid, the RE Lee crew of generals to Trent Lott and buddies, Forrest to Gingrich, Fitz Lee to Hastert, Jubal Early to Tom DeLay, and so on. Events, dynamic, and power balance right now would match to very late April 1865 :-)

[Kahuna]

16. Oh hell yeah! Though they are all equally to blame. They could

have done their jobs. They could have been independent and rejected rove's daily talking points. But they chose to behave like sheeple. So they really have no claim to blame bush or rove.