A Conservative Apology

[kentuck]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/we-were-right_b_25615.html

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Katrina, Harriet Myers, The Dubai Port Deal, skyrocketing gas prices, shrinking wages for working people, staggering debt, astronomical foreign debt, outsourcing, open borders, contempt for the opinion of the American people, the war on science, media manipulation, faith based initiatives, a cavalier attitude toward fundamental freedoms-- this President has run the most arrogant and out-of-touch administration in my lifetime, perhaps, in any American's lifetime.

It may be decades before we have the full picture of how paranoid and contemptuous this administration has been. And I am open to the possibility that I'm all wet about everything I've just said. But I'm putting it out there, because I have to call it as I see it, and this is how I see it today. I don't say any of this lightly. I've thought about this for months and months. But eventually, the weight of evidence takes on a gravitational force of its own.

I believe that George W. Bush has taken us down a terrible road. I don't believe the Democrats are offering an alternative. That means we're on our own to save this magnificent country. The United States of America is a gift to the world, but it has been badly abused and its rightful owners, We the People, had better step up to the plate and reclaim it before the damage becomes irreparable.

So, accept my apology for allowing partisanship to blind me to an obvious truth; our President is incapable of the tasks he is charged with. I almost feel sorry for him. He is clearly in over his head. Yet, he doesn't generate the sympathy Warren Harding earned. Harding, a spectacular mediocrity, had the self-knowledge to tell any and all he shouldn't be President. George W. Bush continues to act the part, but at this point who is buying the act?

Does this make me a waffler? A flip-flopper? Maybe, although I prefer to call it realism. And, for those of you who never supported Bush, its also fair to accuse me of kicking Bush while he's down. After all, you were kicking him while he was up.

You were right, I was wrong.

[Warpy]

1. Too little, too late, and neglects the main problem

and that is that it's the GOP philosophy that is the problem. Yes, all the things the article said about Stupid are true. However, he didn't do all the damage alone. He inherited the legacy of Reagan and expanded it. He didn't originate reckless tax cuts and a deficit that will bankrupt us if they are not overturned, he simply continued the earlier policy of his hero and his party.

It's not just Stupid. He's only being the best Repuglican he knows how to be, charging full steam ahead with a bankrupt philosophy he believes down to his bones.

He's WRONG, and so is his party, and so are conservatives on the Democratic side of the aisle who have enabled all this hideous mismanagement.

[Erika]

5. Fantastic post

100% succinct. It is the message of the republican party that is wrong and totally un-American.

Selfish greed by the upper class and promoting theocracy is why so many of our ancestors left England.

[cornermouse]

2. He forgot torture and spying on the American people.

Other than that, he pretty much covered everything.

[bdamomma]

3. americans are finding trouble to stepping up to the plate

but it will have to done soon to repair what this cabal has done to us and our country and our standing in the world, did I say standing, should be falling.

[Ringo84]

4. To that conservative

Look, let's not get into 'I told you so' scenarios. It's OK. You were misled like supposedly half the country was misled and manipulated into voting for Dubya. Thanks for your apology. Let's work together to hold this man accountable for his actions, whether that means impeachment, or legal remedies, or whatever else.
Ringo

[peacetalksforall]

6. Excellent post. Beautiffuly crafted. Bravo. I love people who think.

People who are realists.

Sometimes a person can change parties for the most subtle of reasons. People have probably never been faced with so many unsubtle reasons to make a change and they don't.

[Norrin Radd]

7. He then went on to slam all Democrats at the end of his "apology,"

and blame them, as well.

Here is the entire text:

http://www.kabc.com/mcintyre/listingsEntry.asp?ID=432586&PT=McIntyre+in+the+Morning

[Trajan]

8. Absolute PERFECTION ....

This commentary pins down EXACTLY the failings and flailings of the government under GOP control .....

Doug McIntyre ? ..... My hats off to YOU .... and welcome aboard 'The Sane Train' ....