from www.restaurantfuel.com....a husband of an acquaintance's blog...who so eloquently put what I haven't been able to put into words:
"Political strategist Lee Atwater once famously told Richard Nixon that the path to victory was dividing the country in half -- and that Republicans would have the biggest half. Whereas Reagan and Bush I went through the motions of building consensus, George W. Bush has spent his entire time in office following the Atwater model. And now we're split, and I wonder if there's any way to reconcile the two halves. Listening to Bush campaign this week for embattled Republican incumbants, I can't help but think that this is a man who knows that he's only President to the Republican voters -- that he doesn't even pretend to be President to the whole country. He and his supporters don't believe that Democrats and non-conservative independents are their countrymen -- they see us as an enemy as irredemable as al Qaeda. It's like we've been split into two nations -- one of right wing extremes, and a disenfranchised one that contains everyone else."
Amen.
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Did you see his press conference today? Whole different approach. That's politics... you don't campaign by being bipartisan. So don't confuse his campaigning with his governance. (Which is open to plenty of other criticisms, anyway.)
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