Daily Kos: Three Ladies and the Man Who Would be King

three ladies, who visited George Bush in the space of a few months and utterly destroyed his public image. [Terri Schiavo] The first exposed him as political operative willing to play to an extremist right electorate over the wishes of the majority, [Cindy Sheehan] the second showed our President is a coward who couldn't make a case for his beloved War. [Katrina] The last, most devastating ghost that visited George Bush pulled back the curtain and revealed the incompetent bungler [behind it]

Three Ladies and the Man Who Would be King
by DarkSyde
Sun Nov 27, 2005 at 10:05:44 AM CST

Exactly one year ago, George Bush was walking his peculiar cocky-walk across every screen in the Republic, rhetoric of political capital dripping smugly from his smirking pie-hole, all dutifully reported by a cowed press and joyous right-wing pundits.

My how the mighty have fallen.

Some blame it on Iraq, a few on the aborted Social Security Plan, others on the economy and gas prices. All good points. But as far as the turn among the general public, the strange anti-Kossackian world of non-political junkies, I give the credit to the spirit of three ladies, who visited George Bush in the space of a few months and utterly destroyed his public image. The first exposed him as political operative willing to play to an extremist right electorate over the wishes of the majority, the second showed our President is a coward who couldn't make a case for his beloved War. The last, most devastating ghost that visited George Bush pulled back the curtain and revealed the incompetent bungler many of us strongly suspected lay behind the carefully cultivated public persona of the CEO President.

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One of the biggest strengths of George Bush's support is also one of his greatest weaknesses: The extremist religious right. Without them, Bush's Presidency, and one could argue the entire modern conservative movement, would be a fringe political sideshow. Most veteran GOP opportunists who cash in on the gullible fundamentalists understand they can never confront these people with the simple truth: Their stated agenda is so repugnant to decent mainstream Americans, that it would be career suicide by ballot box if they actively worked to implement even half of it.

But George Bush and his advisors fell prey to the illusion that the platform of these fringe religious zealots was representative of the electorate. And so, in March of 2005, they moved boldly to capitalize on the tragic fate of what had once been Terry Schiavo; now reduced to a helpless human shell. In a coordinated campaign from Capitol Hill to the steps of the Governor's Mansion in Florida, right-wing sympathizers pandered through their choreographed routine flawlessly, dancing to the ballad of the Culture of Life.

Daily Kos: Three Ladies and the Man Who Would be King