The Conservative Crack Up - The Neocons Develop An Exit Strategy

[Mark E. Smith]

The Conservative Crack Up

The neocons develop and exit strategy - a political one

Howard Fineman 10/12

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush may have no military exit strategy for Iraq, but the "neocons" who convinced him to go to war there have developed one of their own - a political one: Blame the Administration.

Their neo-Wilsonian theory is correct, they insist, but the execution was botched by a Bush team that has turned out to be incompetent, crony-filled, corrupt, unimaginative and weak over a wide range of issues.

The flight of the neocons - just read a recent Weekly Standard to see what I am talking about - is one of only many indications that the long-predicted "conservative crackup" is at hand.

The "movement" - that began 50 years ago with the founding of Bill Buckley's National Review; that had its coming of age in the Reagan years; that reached its zenith with Bush's victory in 2000 - is falling apart at the seams.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9651882/

I'm uncomfortable with the thought that neocons may begin sporting the same kinds of bumperstickers that I've put on my car. When they say "Our Troops Deserve A Smarter President," will they be talking about Sam Brownback and not Wesley Clark?

[NEOBuckeye]

1. The NeoCons are International Criminals and Murderers

They should be brought to trial at The Hague.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Neo-cons are neo-cronies / same old con, like the rest of the busheviks.

[NVMojo]

3. Jeez, I should have seen this coming!!! Fecking assholes!!

So they aren't responsible for the lives that have been lost since 2000? The lives lost in that "Pearl Harbor like event?" Damn these pricks to hell.

[Mark E. Smith]

4. Neocons Believe Themselves Infallible

The gross irony here is that the "president" who has been incapable of admitting to doing anything wrong is now becoming the fall guy for the very people who have been pulling his strings these last 5 or so years.

Get ready for a right that will base its legitimacy on its "principled" opposition to George W. Bush.

In other words, the monster is beginning to grow a new face.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. Yes, the rats are jumping ship. And we know what the captain,

if he is honorable, is supposed to do. Somehow though my bet is bush will try to slither out too. He can blame congress, maybe, because it's thier resposibility to declare these wars and to provide oversite.