Old School Conservative Disses Rove and Bush,
Warns Republicans

Pat Buchanan is an experienced politician, noted columnist and two-time candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who is known as a long-time conservative. He was a senior advisor and speechwriter for Richard Nixon and twice a candidate for the Republican nomination for President. Experienced as he is, Buchanan finally grew disgruntled with the Republicans and left to join the Reform Party in 1999.

Buchanan succinctly summarizes the Bush-Rove era in an op-ed piece in the San Jose Mercury News and syndicated nationally: Bush-Rove Era Left Party in Shambles.

Buchanan sums up Karl Rove in four words: tactical brilliance -- strategic blindness.

Rove’s fantasy was to be the architect of a new Republican era, but as Buchanan points out he and Bush lost the support of the Reagan Democrats and both houses of Congress, and the future of the Republican Party is now at stake.

The country is currently experiencing the worst trade deficit in its history, the income of the middle class is declining, millions of manufacturing jobs are gone and the capitalist pigs are gorging themselves on capital gains and hedge funds. The country is locked in an illegal war that is draining the treasury at a time when we aren’t providing many of the basic services needed by Americans.

Compassionate conservatism seemed like a fine slogan, but under Bush and Rove the term turned out to mean Great Society Liberalism and Big Government Conservatism.

Check out Buchanan's article online:

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_6637080

Bush-Rove Era Left Party in Shambles
Patrick J. Buchanan
Mercury News 8/16/7

 

Dave Satre
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