In another diary about some Bush backers expressing sentiments that they are done with Bush,
zenbowl points out the vital question is, are they done with the GOP?
Bush is, for all intents and purposes, done. He's not going to be running for election. Now how do we make inroads with GOP/Bush voters to get them to understand that it's not Bush, but the whole GOP system that has resulted in these policies that they hate.
That is the real challenge ahead.
Buyers remorse on Bush doesn't mean anything at this point if it isn't transfered to the GOP and radical-right ideology as a whole.
As we begin to hear a myriad conflicting rationalizations and protestations from "the right" about their displeasure with Bush, it has to be driven home that Bush hasn't betrayed the GOP. These GOP/Bush supporters are simply trying to rationalize why things have gone to shit.
Some argue he simply hasn't fully implemented or delivered what the "true" conservative polices and goals are, so we need to move the country further to the "right" since the vestiges of liberalism are somehow responsible for the disasters we are saddled with.
The counter to that is the simply response that when you are in a hole, you need to stop digging.
What he and the multiple cluster-fucks his misadministration have wrought is the direct result of "conservative" principles of the modern GOP in action. From militarism abroad, to the failed Katrina response at home.
Simply put, GOP polices destroys lives and the quality of life both abroad and at home, and BushCo. is the embodiment of those policies in action.
This is what has to be driven home. Bush is not a failure of GOP principles and polices, the failures are a result of failed GOP "principles".
So how do we do this?
How can we get Democrats and liberals as a whole to consistently make this point, over and over within the media and in public discourse?
Thoughts?