WASHINGTON (AP) ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ Without naming John McCain, President Bush marshaled the conservative wing of the Republican Party on Friday to back the presumed GOP presidential nominee for the upcoming battle against the Democratic Party…. “The stakes in November are high. This is an important election. Prosperity and peace are in the balance,” Bush told about 2,000 people attending the Conservative Political Action Conference. “So with confidence in our vision and faith in our values, let us go forward, fight for victory and keep the White House in 2008.”…. Bush spoke to a boisterous crowd shortly after 7 a.m. EST. The ballroom erupted in cheers when someone shouted “Are there conservatives in the house?” When the president walked on stage, they clapped and chanted “Four more years! Four more years!”
Man, talk about a house of delusions built on a foundation of sand, eh? I’ve seen and heard WAY too much about CPAC these past few days, but what I’ve been exposed to leads me to believe that these people are seriously off their meds. How else can you explain a collection of overfed, well-coiffed, and Brooks Brothers-clad White folks seriously chanting “Four More Years!” as Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader bounds onstage to address the adoring throng?
And how about The Worst President EVER © endorsing John McCain as a “true Conservative”? If McCain is a Conservative, then I’m the Queen of England. What McCain can claim to be is a true opportunist, a man who earlier in the campaign season proved himself adept at adjusting his message depending on who he happened to be talking to at a particular moment. The man will say whatever it takes to get himself elected President.
Hmm…what do you call a politician who works hard to be all things to all people? This year he’s called the presumptive GOP Presidential nominee. McCain has suddenly become an unabashed hawk on the war in Iraq, because he knows he needs the 30% of voters who still think The Decider © is relevant and believe that the war in Iraq is an epic struggle against Islamofascist terrorism.
I realize that a term-limited President has an implied obligation to support his party’s standard-bearer, but rarely has a Chief Executive sounded more clueless and out of touch with reality. This sorry excuse for a human being President, the CPAC goons, AND John McCain all seem to think that we’re winning in Iraq. What I can’t figure out, though, is just how we can determine and define exactly what “victory in Iraq” means. The sad thing is that no one on the Right seems to be able to answer that question in a way that doesn’t involve the continued senseless expenditure of American blood and treasure.
In the meantime, I have a question for those smug, self-righteous folks at CPAC: once we finish “rebuilding” Iraq, can we rebuild our schools? And perhaps New Orleans while we’re at it??
