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[tblue37]

173. I never did. He was always a careerist/opportunitst. His role in

helping to cover up the My Lai massacre was already unforgivable in my book.

The fact that he has an attractive public persona just makes it worse, because he has always used that facade to further his own success by furthering evil policies. They weren't "his" policies, because he was always more of a "middle manager" type, but he was certainly a facilitator of evil--and not just in the matter of the invasion of Iraq. His own success depended on never rocking the boat by questioning the terrible policies of terrible people, and not only did he not challenge them--throughout his career he actively assisted in carrying out such policies.

I look at the careerist/opportunist behavior of his son Michael--especially as Cheney/Bush's FCC Chairman--and I can see that the son learned his father's values well. It is no surprise that both Colin and his son decided that they were Republicans at a time when the party no longer consisted of moderate, principled Republicans.

If they had been Republicans in an earlier era, when one could be a Republican without automatically supporting evil policies that destroyed vulnerable people and countries, as well as our own country’s social safety net policies every decent value the US is supposedly built on, I would not hold their party affiliation against them. But to choose to be Republicans when that party had long since given itself over to become the party of Reagan, Cheney, W, GHWB, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and others equally reprehensible strongly suggests that their main--or, more likely, their only--concern is with their own wealth, power, and status.