From: Gary Britt 

I agree he is arrogant and condescending and that is infuriating to those
who oppose him on something.  Its the elitist Kennebunkportian rich boy in
him, and elitists are seldom true conservatives.  Elitists are usually
quite happy as democrats, but that's another story.  I agree arrogant and
condescending applies to him, and the elitism and arrogance may contribute
highly to his being so infuriatingly deaf eared to those around him and his
own supporters.  I don't agree at all with mendacity however.  He is a
genuinely honest person.  He doesn't deliberately lie.  He just fucks up a
lot due to his incompetence and his deaf eared arrogance and inability to
get competent people around him makes for a whole lot of incompetence.

And I don't blame just Bush for the things about which I am furious at the
official republican party.  The incompetence and lack of core values that
permeates, still permeates and has permeated the leadership of the
republican party in congress and in the party apparatus since 1998 has been
a huge factor in the party losing its base of support.

Then you have the incompetent Bush appointing, directly or in effect, a
whole slew of like minded incompetent loyalists to party leadership
positions and you have a situation were republicans with the blessing of
the official party leaders are having secret meetings with Democrats to
sell out the Country, their party, and their supporters.

If immigration reform passes it will be unquestionably true that 12 years
of Bush was worse for the country than 8 years of Clinton.

Gary

John Cuccia wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:19:45 -0400, Gary Britt
>  wrote:
>
>> His problem is that 1.  He isn't really
>> a conservative, just like his father;  2.  He's smart but an incompetent
>> executive and is unable (unlike Reagan) to surround himself with highly
>> competent and effective subordinates and managers.
>
> You forgot his arrogance and mendacity.  But the problems you
> mentioned are  exactly the faults that led him to (a) blunder into
> Iraq and (b) have our military stumble around it for the past 4+
> years.

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