The "Daddy Worshipers" lost a powerful patriarch when Rummy got a political "time-out" yesterday, and most of the country now agrees that the Bush Administration is indeed strong-n-wrong and aggressively incompetent. Buckshot Cheney lost his paternal appeal and is now more associated with the Penguin than being a strict father-figure. The only dad-imagery that Bush conjurs is the equivalent of dad trying to be cool and blowing it in front of his teenage kids and all their friends.
Daddy-worship is coming to the end of an era, and with it, the conservative movement has demonstrated a massive failure.
After OH was called in 2004, I walked around catatomically and the only explanation that resonated was the Guardian headline basically saying the "masses are asses." Well I was wrong, and the Guardian was wrong. They are not asses, they are just slow learners. Nobody likes being duped, so what we now see is that Rove created a nation of sharper and more organized skeptics. Thank you Karl. Your kryptonite was time. With time, even the incurious can learn a lesson.
Mr Mission Accomplished said it best, "Fool me once...you can't get fooled again."
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