Out of curiosity, we were reading Karl "Raving'" Rove's op-ed piece in today's WSJ on why the presidential nominating contest needs to be reformed. One problem, Rove, says is that the current process increases pressure on candidates "narrowly focus on the concerns of their party's activists in the early states."Then we gagged--as an example of a candidate bravely bucking that trend, he cited W Bush in 2000 "rallying the armies of compassion to confront hopelessness of spirit and condition"--the compassionate conservatism charade. Despite "criticism" from his opponents, says Rove, Bush "rejected any retreat from the theme."
Uh, right. That is, until he was elected and it turned out that he meant "passionate conservatism," the kind where you put your incompetent conservative cronies in charge of everything.
Maybe the 2008 race isn't so bad after all.
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