Fineman: Bush Fatigue in the GOP

[Beartracks]

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None of the GOP's innumerable 2008 candidates defended George W. Bush, whose name they rarely utter in any context, anywhere. In Congress, Republicans privately called to thank Gingrich, claims his press aide, Rick Tyler. "The general view was that it was long past time for someone to speak up," he says.

Coming from someone always on the cutting edge of cutting people down, Gingrich's bombing run signals a new twist in the GOP's every-man-for-himself '08 survival strategy: it may not be enough to ignore Bush; you may need to attack him to prove your bona fides to the public at large. "It's not so much that he is an embarrassment, it's that there is an exhaustion," says Rich Galen, a GOP analyst who has worked for both of the Bushes and Gingrich. "People are tired of defending him."
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18999831/site/newsweek/


Tired of defending him? Why have they done so for so long in the first place?

[illinoisprogressive]

1. yeah, we all are tired of these people and have fatigue for this whole era

[Erika]

2. Not only are we tired of the administration

We're also outraged at the bushbots who enabled them.

[pansypoo53219]

3. he thinks the GOP has Bush fatigue???

the rest of america and the world is beyond fatigue and want his head on a spike.

but finally SOMEBODY said it.

[Erika]

4. How true and thank you

The W era has to end.

[salin]

5. and yet, they tend to promote bush policies - its like saying

we don't like him - but we are going to preside as if we were him.

[ixion]

6. ..."it was long past time for someone to speak up"

:wow: :wtf: :argh: :grr:

Are you freakin' kidding me? There have been people "speaking up" for several years now, only to be shouted down by BLOWHARDS like those in the GOP debate. :grr:

[Demeter]

7. But Those Weren't PEOPLE--Just people

The "little" people: peons, slaves, illegals in their own country....

[Beartracks]

8. And non-persons would also include...

...Democrats, progressives, etc., etc.