Thursday, June 03, 2004
 
Sullied

Andrew Sullivan psychoanalyzes voters in the middle of the country:
    My own hunch is that these voters do not like a massive increase in government spending, a huge jump in public debt, and a post-war policy in Iraq that seemed blindsided by reality. But here's my other belief, and it's about Abu Ghraib. The images from that prison shamed America in deep and inchoate ways. Traditional conservative patriots in particular were appalled. The awful truth is that this president presided over one of the most damaging blows to American prestige and self-understanding in recent history. He may not have been directly responsible; but it was on his watch. And he ensured that no one high up in his administration took the fall for the horror. I think traditional patriots were saddened, shocked and horrified by the abuse and, to a lesser extent, the Bush administration's self-protective response to it.
How can you doubt this man? His last hunch was that these very same people are over-represented in government and undertaxed.

- posted by Brian J. @ 7:15 PM
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