I have a 20-something son whose standard argument whenever I say anything negative about Obama is, ‘well Bush did .... .’ Tonite the discussion was about Valerie Jarrett and Chicago cronyism. Once again he brought up Bush 43 and Texas cronyism.
To his surprise, I said the Bush presidency was destroyed by two major personnel misjudgments of President Bush 43. One was to appoint a Texan, in the person of Scott McClellan, as White House spokesperson; the other was to put Mel Martinez from his brother’s state of FL in as head of the RNC. Neither McClellan nor Martinez was up to the task. McClellan was not only incompetent, he was a total snake.
Especially given Bush’s personal inarticulation he needed superior spokespersons. Yet, after Ari Fleischer, he put in McClellan? The Bush White House never recovered, even with Tony Snow. By then it was too late.
Martinez led the RNC in the Spring of 2006 to adopt a pro-amnesty position that drove off major benefactors and much of the base. That led soon after to the 2006 election debacle. The GOP would not have been nearly so vulnerable to the last minute Foley story had the RNC not driven off its base months before.
And, let us not forget, the GOP came into power on Capitol Hill in 1994 with a ‘defund the left’ goal, then did absolutely nothing. It took 2 20-somethings and Braebart to begin that defunding 15 years later.
One of the author's points is that we must personally defund the left. The best way to do that is a moral rebirth that shuns the smarmy culture the left has pushed on us. Many FReepers already do that. How do we show the other good folks who are unknowingly funding the leftist culture?