Bush Supporters Passing Denial and into Bargaining Stage (Josh Marshall)

[On the Road]

(July 27, 2004 -- 03:43 AM EDT)

"Keep your eye out and you're bound to see this argument -- now floated by many conservative columnists -- that Kerry may win because voters need a breather -- a time-out, if you will -- from the turbocharged rush of history we've experienced over the last three years under George W. Bush. The president has simply accomplished so much, bent the world so mightily to his will, that Americans are craving a return to normalcy, as that campaign neologism once had it.

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Rather than taking it on its merits, though, I have a different take on this argument. It's a rhetorical or logical reasoning halfway house on the way to a realization of how badly the president has screwed up what one might generously call his ambitious plans. As with Kubler-Ross's grinding five stages of grief, first we have denial. Then anger. And with this argument we have something akin to that tipping-point stage of 'bargaining' -- the sensible pundits' first tip-toe out onto a serious consideration of the impact of the president's term of office."

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I think Josh is on to something. No question Bush will not be treated well by history. At some point the groupthink will be cracked and cognitive dissonance will start to torment Republican footsoldiers.

[Cha]

1. Pardon my bluntness! But Bullshit!

Or more accurately ..bushit! We want him out cause he's a no good murdering lyin' greedy son of a bitch.

[sundancekid]

2. Josh Marshall shows us an excellent moment of "jumping the shark"

which is how, historically, incumbents either win or lose by a LANDSLIDE because their own will also "give themselves permission" to abandon ship in the case of the incumbent LOSING by a landslide ... and the comments Josh notes plus other comments from the likes of Karen Hughes et al are actually prescient to Dimson indeed LOSING in the end by a landslide!

JM, you are wickedly brilliant!!!!