I posted a diary on this last night, but due to a misquote on my part and a misunderstanding of what I saw last night on MSNBC led me to delete the diary (shortly after zipping up the recommended list). While I did make a blunder in the quote I posted and what Scarborough's comments were about; the
idea behind what was said last night is the same.
Essentially, through Joe Scarborough's stories of his father, he is saying that Bush is in the same boat as Nixon; his father gave up his support for Nixon the DAY BEFORE he resigned. And now he has given up on Bush as well.
Read Scarborough's latest blog on MSNBC from yesterday, Losing Patience with Bush.
My father, who was a faithful member Nixon's Silent Majority, supported the 36th President throughout Vietnam, Cambodia, Kent State and the Watergate hearings.
To George F. Scarborough, the Washington Post was the enemy, Walter Cronkite was a communist and John Dean was a spineless traitor.
Even as an 11 year old, I knew the gig was up when my dad opened up the paper one morning in August and whispered, "If he's done half of this stuff, he should be sent straight to jail."
The next day, Nixon resigned.
Yikes. You know when a Republican starts talking about Nixon and his resignation as a comparison to Bush and what is going on today, you know it must be pretty bad for Bush.
Dad's voice trailed off.
This lifelong Republican who waited in line for hours in 1964 to cast his vote for Goldwater, and predicted the rise of Ronald Reagan in 1979, could not bring himself to verbalize what the President's critics have been saying for years now. That George Bush's war is a disaster and his administration is out of touch with the Silent Majority.
The record deficit. The port deal. Amnesty for illegal aliens. Bridges to nowhere. Skyrocketing gas prices. Iranian terrorists getting the Bomb.
It's all been enough to make hardcore Republicans like my dad start asking if there's any difference between the Republican Party they have always loved and the Democratic Party they have forever loathed.
Sure, he still loathes Democrats I'm sure. But the important thing here is that Scarborough has drawn a comparison between Nixon and his crimes, and eventual resignation, and where Bush is today.
During the show last night he also gave some good advice to the Democrats (he seems so upset at his party that he WANTS us to win, I think); hammer in the Dubai Port deal fiasco, the corruption, etc. and don't let it go. Hammer the Republicans into the ground and don't let them get away with it. Some of what he said actually made a lot of sense.
When a Republican like Scarborough is so fed up with Bush that he's giving the Democrats good advice and comparing Bush to Nixon, you KNOW it's over.
And for Bush, it's over. We hope.