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Five Ways Bush Sunk the GOP: Video

8/20/08, 4:31 pm EST

Click above to watch Sean Wilentz, the author of our new cover story examining how Bush destroyed the Republican party, lay out exactly how the president did the deed — from transforming himself from a compassionate conservative into a right-winger to Dick Cheney to Hurricane Katrina.

[Video: Eric Helton]


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DirtyDennis | 8/20/2008, 4:50 pm EST

To an anti-Bush rag like RS, it is easy to cite the evidence given and conclude Bush destroyed the GOP party. Of course, that’s if you live in Oz and actually think the dust and clamor equates to destruction. Once could as easily cite the evidence given and conclude that party ‘favor’ in this country is cyclical at best, uncontrolled at worst.

Post Katrina New Orleans is an example of destruction. The GOP party looks more like Detroit than New Orleans.

My take on this article’s assertion: You Wish!!

Coach | 8/20/2008, 5:51 pm EST

One reason for the destruction of the traditional GOP party was left off of this video:

IT WAS THEIR INTENTION.

DirtyDennis | 8/20/2008, 6:39 pm EST

Coach,

You may be right. Names don’t mean a thing. It’s the ideals that dominate. A Right Wing by any other name would smell so foul.

DirtyDennis | 8/20/2008, 7:27 pm EST

After three years, Bush thinks there’s ‘hope’ for New Orleans. Hope?

“Gosh, I sure hope things get better for you guys down there,” Bush said whimsically, “Sure wish I could help.”

Phabe D. | 8/21/2008, 4:54 am EST

To Dirty Dennis……..HUH?!?
Alot of words and you ain’t saying nothing….
Yea you definitely are a Bush fan.
maybe you need someone to write your comments for you like they write Bushes speeches. Then you might sound a little more intelligent.
The facts are there, Its ok to feel stupid because you voted for an idiot twice. we all make mistakes.
Yes the Rolling Stone is a anti-Bush rag. But they are also against inaction and ineptitude when hundreds of people are stranded & dying ,Picking fights and ignoring the battles that need to be fought, theft and miss-spending of our tax dollars, illegal torture, illegal civilian phone taps, giving all your “Good Ol Boys” lucrative contracts and access to the spoils of a fruitless and fraudulent war.
Last time i checked Dennis….We fought against Communist Russia, Hitlers Germany, England during the Revolutionary War, N. Korea, N. Vietnam, Panama, Cuba, Philippines, Japan and the Civil War Because these opponents to freedom wished to crush God given freedoms and basic rights. Now here we are with Bush as our President Doing the same damn thing that we fought against for all these years! And we have the nerve to tell Russia to leave Georgia like we any damn better. Nobody even respects our country anymore thanks to people like you sir.
Then you come and say “its easy to cite evidence” Duh! its evidence!!

DirtyDennis | 8/21/2008, 8:42 am EST

Phobe,

Perhaps you should read a little more before you criticize and label. If you had you’d have ‘learned’ that I am a Con hater of the first order, have been since Nixon. If you’d have read further, you would have discovered I think Bush/Cheny, Bushney, we call them here, are criminals and should spend the remainder of their lives in jail, being tortured.

You’d have also learned that I tend to sway from the mainstream, certainly I do often with this blog.

The GOP may or may NOT be headed for destruction, as Coach and I opined, but to claim that they are and to pronounce them so is the height of stupidity. They are the enemy and by declaring them dead, their threat is lessened. As I said, the GOP may, or may NOT (I think NOT) be dead, but the ‘ideals’ of the right will remain irrespective of party names.

And it is ESPECIALLY stupid to be making such RIDICULOUS claims prior to an election of such monumental importance. If RS’ article leads even one liberal voter to skip voting in November, then they have not begun to hear my wrath. As in the past, they will doubtless expunge any of my remarks then find ‘offensive,’ but I will continue to rail nonetheless.

Thank God for the internet.

As for you young Phobe, you should take some time to read and listen before you speak.

Delta Wild Man | 8/21/2008, 10:02 am EST

I can’t believe this guy still does not get it..
Bush is not running for president, John McCain is running for president and why should John McCain be so afraid to be connected with Bush?
Bush did beat every democrat who he’s ever ran against.
Carl Rove??
Come on, Obama would have sold his right testi for a chance for Mr. Rove to fun his campaign..
Oh, and what’s hurt the GOP real bad, it ain’t so much the Right,, it’s a Left leaning President,
George W Bush is not a conservative, he might be a Republican, But he’s not a conservative, nor was his daddy.
Bill Clinton was more conservative than any of the Bush’es.
This guy does not get it.

Delta Wild Man | 8/21/2008, 10:07 am EST

You run the liberals out of the Republican Party, then you might get leadership who will listen to their base.
Then the Democrats once again will have a problem.
I’m kind of thinking when Obama looses this time, Things will change in the Democrat Party Leadership, people like Dean and Soros will be asked to leave, and the Democrat Leadership will become more conservative or centered, then the Republican Party is in deep chit.
You get any political party here in America who is truely CENTERED, not leaning too much to the left or right, then you’ve got a political party who will run the show for decades.

Phabe | 8/22/2008, 10:48 pm EST

to Dirty Dennis.
I am sorry.

DirtyDennis | 8/23/2008, 8:37 am EST

Not a prob Phobe. We’re on the same side. We need to identify the ‘enemy’ before we pull the trigger.

And I’m guilty of making my sarcasm a little too vague. I trust that viewers will know me for who I am and my positions.

Now, lets roundup all the cons and send them to a small, faraway, barely habitable planet.

DirtyDennis | 8/23/2008, 12:31 pm EST

Oops, Senior Eyes. I see it’s phAbe. Sorry, my bad.

I had a sense of phobe (phoebe) but confess phabe eludes me.

Ed | 8/26/2008, 10:51 pm EST

Rolling Stone should just stick to music and leave the politics to Rush Limbaugh.

Grosse Fatigue | 8/31/2008, 11:37 am EST

I love it! This is great reading. I wish to have read something similar in the New York Times during Bush eight years. Where happened to newspapers during eight years?

Grosse Fatigue | 8/31/2008, 11:38 am EST

I love it! This is great reading. I wish to have read something similar in the New York Times during Bush eight years. What happened to newspapers during Bush presidency?

Anonymous | 10/12/2008, 2:37 pm EST

i agree with whats being said here totally the way i was thinking about bush and cheney and mcain and if he gets in its more bush and same crap

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