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Bush knifes his conservative base
According to Robert Novak, “Conservatives who have spent more than a decade planning for this moment to change the balance of power on the Supreme Court are reeling” from President Bush’s comment in which he “put forth ‘friendship’ as a qualification for being named to the high court.”
The right’s morale was devastated by the president’s comments in a USA Today telephone interview published on the newspaper’s front page Tuesday: “Al Gonzales is a great friend of mine. When a friend gets attacked, I don’t like it.”Bush’s attitude toward his conservative base is one of undisguised contempt. Remember that it was Bush himself who said repeatedly that his model of the type of supreme Court justice he would pick was Scalia and Thomas. Yet now, as Bush openly flirts with breaking that pledge, and his conservative supporters—whose main reason for supporting him was to get conservatives on the Supreme Court—get understandably upset about this, he tells them to shut up, because, for Bush, personal friendship trumps principle, duty, promises, patriotism. It was the same when Bush, standing next to his friend the president of Mexico, was asked about the Minuteman Project, and replied that he doesn’t approve of “vigilantism.” Just as, on that occasion, he stuck it to patriotic Americans in the name of his friendship with a Hispanic enemy of America, he now sticks it to his conservative supporters in the name of his friendship with a Hispanic non-conservative.
Will this manifest pattern of treasonous behavior on Bush’s part finally wake up the lap-dog conservatives as to his true character? Nahh. Email entry |