From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:19:21 -0000, "Phil Payne"
 wrote:

>> Once again, typical of the amoralism of the Republican leadership: the
>> end justifies any means.
>
>I wonder at the state of his mind:
>
>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/09/MNG1LM8VRV1.DTL
>
>On Wednesday, he lamented that "somehow it seeped into (people's) conscience
>that, you know, my attitude was just simply stay the course.''
>
>It could be because Bush himself used the phrase "stay the course'' dozens
>of times to explain his administration's steadfast determination not to
>abandon the mission in the face of catastrophic circumstances in Iraq.

Remember what his David Frum, a former speechwriter, recently said about him:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612?currentPage=3
"I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the
president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself
committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me
has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb
the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything."


In other words, Frum thought that Bush was empty-headed enough to absorb
whatever they told him to say.  In the end, he discovered that Bush was too
dense even for that.

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