This President will never be popular again.
I'm sure a few people thought that about Reagan during Iran-Contra. Tell me guys, is this worse than Iran-Contra, too?
I strongly approve of Iran-Contra, by the way. Unlike Tip O'Neil and Joe Biden, I oppose Communism in Central America, and I don't think for a second that W has the brass ones to pull something like Iran-Contra.
That said, Bush's problem is not a single mistake, though this mistake has opened the floodgates. It is a series of mistakes that has culminated today.
He blew foreign policy by botching the Iraq occupation and forcing Republicans everywhere to defend his incompetence in arguments with their Democrat friends.
He blew economics with his idiotic spending and his other inadequate policies, and again we're tired of defending him.
But we could always say, "Look at his judges. Owen, Pryor, Brown, and Roberts for Chief. He's still good for the culture wars." He even threw guys like Henry Saad overboard to ensure an up or down vote on SC nominees. We swallowed that one, waiting for the big one. And when it came, he stuck us all in the back by choosing an unqualified quota filler (Ironic that a Supreme Court that abolished quotas in 1978 has had its newest member chosen by a quota.) whose judicial philosophy is unknown and unknowable when there was an incredible farm team of Circuit Judges to choose from.
He has lost the heartfelt support of conservatives on every one of the three categories of political policy, economic, social, and foreign. This is chronic problem, not a one day thing, and it won't get better soon, if ever.
But hey, at least he's better than the Democrats. For now.
