GOP Insider Gold on Bush: "Think Dan Quayle in cowboy boots"

[Rose Siding]

Old Bush/Cheney family friend Vic Gold has written "Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP."

"For all the Rove-built facade of his being a 'strong' chief executive, George W. Bush has been, by comparison to even hapless Jimmy Carter, the weakest, most out of touch president in modern times," Gold writes. "Think Dan Quayle in cowboy boots."
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For Gold, Cheney brings to mind the adage of Swiss writer Madame de Stael, who wrote, "Men do not change, they unmask themselves." Cheney has a deep streak of paranoia and megalomania, Gold suggests -- but he says he did not see it at first.
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For his part, the former president indicated continuing affection for his former aide. "Vic Gold is a friend and always will be," (Herbert Walker) Bush said in a statement relayed through his spokesman........Gold says he recently wrote a letter to George H.W. Bush explaining himself and alerting him to the book -- and he says the former president offered a gracious reply to the effect of "You always called them like you saw them.".....

Gold says he felt compelled to write his book because what he considers the depredations of the Bush administration -- the war, violations of civil liberties, expansion in government, the politicization of the Justice Department, to name just a few -- have violated his sense of what the Republican Party should stand for.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/01/AR2007040101211_3.html

Lynn Cheney wouldn't comment for the article. When told about the book she wanted to know if it was an
April Fools joke. :rofl:

[Phredicles]

1. I've thought for a long time that Bush The Elder picked Quayle as

his running mate because it was the closest he could decently come to nominating his own son.

[LiberalEsto]

3. I thought it was impeachment insurance

like Nixon with Agnew

[Lost4words]

2. I love it, thanks for the laugh at the end!

It is nice to see some repukes GET IT, but its been 7 GD years of this shit, Where has the true GOP been all this time???

[Rose Siding]

4. Yeah, I'd still never trust 'em with my lunch money

-but it's good to see that *some* is reality seeping into their heads. And, since pretzeldent values the idea of his "legacy", the idea that it will be realized while he's still around to see it is yummy.

[orwell]

5. I wonder if there's any...

...coincidence between this sudden new found religion on the con side and the 2006 election slaughter, with the prospect of further erosion in the base in 2008?

I don't buy it for a second. These Con clowns are jumping ship as part of a larger PR move to distance themselves from themselves. And the US public is so short sighted and gullible that it just might work.

[groovedaddy]

7. Iraq is the lynchpin in all this

Though the U.S. attorneys scandal & the FBI breaking the law 20,000+ times are major too.
Come this time next year, IF Iraq is still hot with Repubs in Congress still wanting to "stay the course" - will them in deep shit, possibly in their primary races, definately in November '08.

[Rydz777]

8. Good line

"distance themselves from themselves" = good line and fitting. I'm optimistic, however, that the GOP as we know it is heading for a crackup and may disappear like the Whigs. Subtract the religious component and the neocons, and all that is left is the country club set.

[rhino47]

6. All good for Gold to speak up.

But where the fuck was he 5 years ago ?