Conservative condolences: John Bolton’s tenure as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was over with the Democrat’s ascendency at the midterm elections, but to hear our favorite ultra-right winger tell it, this is just another sign that the country is going to hell in a hippie’s handbasket.
Here’s the statement Richard A. Viguerie, author of “Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause, ” issued today via e-mail about Bolton’ s resignation:
There are only a mere handful of conservatives in significant policy-making positions in the Bush administration. The withdrawal of Ambassador Bolton means there is one less. This is very discouraging to conservatives. Instead of fighting for Ambassador Bolton’s confirmation, the Bush Administration has once again thrown in the towel.
Come on, Dick, Bush has to pick his fights carefully now, and going to the mat for the moustachioed one would have been a sure loss.
Since the election, President Bush has sent strong signals that he will move left and seek accommodation with the Democrats who will be running the House and Senate. The President is following in the footsteps of his father, George H. W. Bush, who also abandoned the conservative base of the GOP.
Whoa, I must have missed the speech where Bush vowed to “move left and seek accommodation” with the Dems. All I’ve heard was, “Rummie, you’re fired” and “we’re stayin’ the course.” If only George had followed in his father’s footsteps ….
In addition to surrendering on the Bolton nomination, another danger signal for conservatives was the President’s comments at his Nov. 8 news conference that he will work with the liberals to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Still another was Treasury Secretary Paulson’s statement that the Bush Administration had ‘no preconditions’ on Social Security reform, which is code for a willingness to accept higher payroll taxes and cuts in benefits.
Obviously, Viguerie is tuned in to a whole different wavelength, sucking his conservative news direct from aliens who enhabit the Van Allen Belt. Bush isn’t going to grant “amnesty” for illegals, and he’s going to leave SocSec to the next administration to try to fix.
It looks like the next two years will be painful for conservatives and possibly fatal for the Republican Party.
Would that it could only be the other way around, Richard.
Good ridence to Boltin’ Bolton, may he soon be “investigated” very, very much….As for the future of “conservatism”…it sho’ nuff doan luk 2 dang good, do it?…How flippin’ SAD…
That the radical, right-wing neocons are now turning on their brethern, snarling at each other like a feral dog caught in trap snaps at strangers, is no surprise.
These people know only two things: how to hate others and an addiction to power.
But don’t count them out. Like the feral dog, they will chew off their own leg to escape and again wreak havoc on any bystanders.