Columnist Mark Shields Despairs George W. Bush Too Honorable to Use as Bogeyman
Published: 8/28/2010 3:18 PM ET
It will be "very difficult for Democrats to demonize" George W. Bush
"again" during this campaign season, liberal nationally syndicated
columnist Mark Shields
despaired on Friday's Inside Washington, because he's "a circumspect
and discreet former President." Quite unlike, he didn't say, the often
boorish Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
Reacting to Vice President Joe Biden's indictment of the supposed disastrous results from the Bush administration's economic policies, Shields fretted:
Reacting to Vice President Joe Biden's indictment of the supposed disastrous results from the Bush administration's economic policies, Shields fretted:
The problem for the Democrats is this, that the energizer bunny for the 2006, 2008 campaigns has disappeared because of George W. Bush's being a circumspect and discreet former President it makes it very difficult for Democrats to demonize him again. He's become a non-person. He shows up at a ball game once in a while, he greets soldiers coming back. He hasn't said anything controversial and that makes it a tougher fight for Joe Biden to make.Charles Krauthammer is a regular on the weekly program, so I'll use that as a hook to highlight his latest column, "The last refuge of a liberal," which includes this well-framed observation:
Promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.