Tucker: A Man and His Daydream

Tucker Carlson has a new angle for explaining the political shortcomings of the Bush Administration: President Bush is a liberal.

Of course, Tucker can't come out and say this himself, so he has a guy from the Ronald Reagan Era do it for him (and we all know how the government shrunk under Reagan's strict presidency, right?):

TUCKER CARLSON, HOST, "SITUATION": Bush is a liberal? I mean, this is going to come as a huge shock to the many obsessive Bush haters who think he's a right-wing maniac. Explain.

BRUCE BARTLETT, AUTHOR, "IMPOSTOR": Well, I think there's a difference between saying somebody is not a conservative and saying they're a liberal. I believe it was Bill Buckley who said George Bush is conservative, but he is not a conservative. He's not one of us, basically.
His conservatism is the conservatism of the guy who says, you know, like Archie Bunker, the good old days and why is everything, you know, not working the way it used to? It's not borne out of thought or reason or analysis.

Well, there you have it. Bush is Archie Bunker; a fake conservative. Ipso-facto, he's liberal. So I suppose the 34% of voters who think he's doing a good job are liberals, huh? Or that Michael Moore made that movie because he wanted to help Bush win the election. Or that blog stories like this is just a way liberals like to tease people they favor.

Tucker needs to grow a spine. If he wants to call out the President, at least have the guts to do it himself and not drag in a Reaganite to do his dirty work.

And this crackmonkey he brought in needs to get a clue too. If Bush wasn't the model for conservatism, why did you allow him to be nominated? I'm sure during the 2000 elections Reaganites still had pull within the Republican Party. You can't tell me that if they really had grave concerns that they wouldn't have pulled the plug on Bush. Either Karl Rove had something on people like Bartlett, or Brucey-boy has just gotten down off a five-year meth-bender.

So enough with this "Bush is really liberal" nonsense. Every SOTU address he's given says otherwise. Every speech he's given says otherwise. His handling of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, Supreme Court Justices, and warrantless wiretapping say otherwise.

President Bush is a conservative. It's just that he's also a poor leader and multitasker, and Tucker & Co. don't want that to hurt the Republicans election hopes in November.