America Isn't Conservative

August 20, 2007
America Isn't Conservative

"Having recaptured Congress last year, the Democrats are on course to retake the presidency in
2008," says the venerable British weekly, which blames the destruction of the vaunted Republican
machine on the ideological excess and breathtaking incompetence of the Bush administration, as
well as the sleaziness of the G.O.P. leadership in Congress.

The editorial warns fellow conservatives against claiming that George W. Bush failed to fulfill
their agenda. The president is a lame duck but not a good scapegoat, because "rather than
betraying the right, he has given it virtually everything it craved, from humongous tax cuts to
conservative judges." The worst political errors of the Bush regime, from its ruinous war in Iraq
to the awful Terri Schiavo intervention, sprang directly from the brilliant minds of the religious
right and the neoconservatives.