Glenden BrownThe Bush Defenders Last Redoubt: He Doesn’t Have Sex With Monica
A group of coworkers and I were mocking George W. Bush. Another coworker tried to defend him saying “Things are better than under Clinton! He’s doing better than Clinton.” Let’s just say that there was a level of jeering I haven’t heard for a long time.Â
People started shouting out a list of things that were worse under Bush. Let’s just say it was lengthy, comprehensive, and intimidating.
The Bush defender cried out “At least he’s not an immoral scum like Clinton! I’m not ashamed of what he does!”
My coworker, the textbook conservative populist, sees Bill Clinton’s shagging Monica as a worse action than anything Bush has done. In the final analysis, the idea that not having an extra-marital affair is a qualification for the Presidency seems absurdly laughable, but for my coworker, it is of paramount importance.
How many Bush supporters are out there, clinging to this last tenuous thread to defend his presidency? The knowledge that at least he doesn’t cheat on his wife seems so trivial compared to the vast and egregious moral shortcomings of this administration. But for many Bushies out there, it’s all they’ve got left in the face of this administration’s abject failures. And I suspect we’ll start hearing more and more descriptions of Bush’s “morality.”
September 24th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Another is the difference between not having an affair and not having been caught having one. Someone should take this up with jimmy / jeff gannon.
Beyond that, died-in-the-wool admin supporters are in terrible denial. That’s a mental illness. There are medications for this, I believe.
September 24th, 2007 at 11:23 am
W is far too busy fu*king up the whole planet to spend naked time with a chubby intern. When the house is on fire, it’s not sexy time. When things are running pretty smooth and he world is pretty happy, that’s when it’s sexy time. Idle hubris is the devil’s playground.
September 24th, 2007 at 11:43 am
They just want us to think that it’s more the devils playground than usual. Boosh’s vacation schedule never suffered from the threats we’re supposed to cower against.
Playground, indeed.
September 24th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
I’d be willing to bet your Republican co-worker has no problem with Rudy Giuliani’s extramarital affair, John McCain’s extramarital affair, or Newt Gingrich’s extramarital affair. As Bill in Portland Maine put it:
September 24th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
It’s not this poor persons fault.
The media have convinced us that the only truly serious news, concerns sexual infidelity, mostly by democrats. Bush’s dad had an affair and nobody knows about it. The only stories the media runs with are stories that have some kind of sexual component. It’s a form of subliminal indoctrination that really works, because people like to talk about sex even if they’re not having it. I prefer to have my country back from these traitors, and couldn’t care less if not one story about sex shows up until we do have our country back.
But this inability of religious people to tell the moral difference between sexual gratification and deaths and maiming of millions is scary beyond measure!
September 24th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
This post brings up how important it is to mock George Bush in public. His defenders make fools of themselves and eventually will have to back down or flee from the scene, (fleeing is their preferred method.)
Don’t like conversations about George Bush’s America? Love it it leave it!
September 24th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Even Toby Keith has stopped defending Bush’s war and now says he never supported it. That’s real big of you Toby. Now what about a great big, sloppy public apology to the Dixie Chicks before we put a “boot up your ass.”