Tom Toles: Don't Look Now

[n2doc]

Yes, I succumbed to temptation and mentioned George W. Bush in a post yesterday. Some commenters seem to think it bad form for a liberal to 'look backwards', apparently considering looking backwards to be their special zone of operations. They blissfully inhabit a butterfly-filled historic meadow of founding fathers, Ronald Reagan, who any day now will BE a founding father in their minds, and an imagined version of the Constitution (I'm not absolutely certain that Christine O'Donnell has actually read it) of crystalline simplicity.

If you close your eyes, like they do, you can picture them bounding (backwards) through that meadow, which exists without memory of Native Americans, slavery, the Great Depression, legally mandated segregation, the working conditions that gave rise to unions, or any of the other factors that actually shaped the America they think is the one they used to live in before liberals made everything so complicated.

So George W. Bush's visage of belligerent perplexity is currently airbrushed out of the special collector's edition commemorative display plate version of the past, because... well, because not only was he a blistering embarrassment to the conservative movement, but because his policies are the exact ones they want to vote back into office two weeks from now. --Tom Toles

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/tomtoles/2010/10/dont_look_now_yes_i.html#more

[hedgehog]

1. I think the ultimate attack ad this week would be to find a photo

of the Republican candidate posing with Bush, Cheney, Palin, etc. Every time Christine O'Donnell makes the news, she hurts every GOP candidate across the country.

[AspenRose]

2. "I miss being pampered. I miss Air Force One. I miss being Commander in Chief."

That quote from the former president should be hung over the head of every GOP candidate for the next two weeks, along with the secret funding issues. These people don't want to govern, they want to order people around and be pampered at the expense of the American people.

[emulatorloo]

3. "a butterfly-filled historic meadow" imagined version of the Constitution

Hilariously put, horribly true. Thanks for posting this.