How Bout Those Anti-Bush Republicans

Todd Gitlin has a few questions for you republicans that have had a sudden change of heart about G.W. Bush and of course, I whole heartedly agree. So you are up for re-election, the Iraq War isn't going so well, and your constituents are asking hard questions. As a good Republican supporter of Bush, what are you to do?

It's morally mandatory, a matter of intellectual decency, to demand of Bush's erstwhile Koolaid sippers that they look into themselves, into their willed credulity and their wild ideology, and ask how they could for so long have overlooked the idiocy, corruption, ignorance, fatuousness, bullying, and fantasizing that now strike them as obvious. "Whoops, sorry about that" won't do.

At least the idiot Santorum says "screw my constituents, I'm doing what I think is right". There is a bit to admire there. But you other guys, explain to us how you could have been so wrong for so long.