Thursday, June 17, 2004

Andrew Sullivan on Bush's Incompetence, etc...

Andrew Sullivan on Bush's Incompetence, etc...
Mr. Sullivan takes on Jonah Goldberg of the National Review by showing just how bad Bush has been...and would be.

"Could it be that Bush has not governed as a conservative in critical ways - and hasn't even governed competently in others? Let's list a few: the WMD intelligence debacle - the worst blow to the credibility of the U.S. in a generation; Abu Ghraib - a devastating wound to to America's moral standing in the world; the post-war chaos and incompetence in Iraq; an explosion in federal spending with no end in sight; no entitlement reform; a huge addition to fiscal insolvency with the Medicare drug entitlement; support for a constitutional amendment, shredding states' rights; crusades against victimless crimes, like smoking pot and watching porn; the creeping fusion of religion and politics; the erosion of some critical civil liberties in the Patriot Act. I could go on. Is there any point at which a conservative might consider not voting for Bush? For the editor of National Review Online, the answer is indeed 'fairly obvious.' But for people not institutionally related to the G.O.P., the only question is: where would that line be?"