John Hawkins has an interesting post about why Bush's triangulation hasn't worked.
Update: I wonder if other conservatives feel as betrayed by Bush as I do, or whether I had just been naive to hope and trust in any polician. One of the first things I remember Bush saying early in his term is that "the government doesn't have money, it has the people's money". At the time I thought that was awesome, since that's how I think about it exactly. But Bush hasn't behaved like he really believed that at all.
Maybe it's just because he was the first President I'd ever voted for (in fact, 2000 was the first time I'd ever voted). One of my friends asked me in 2000 whether I was going to vote for Bush because I liked him or because I was playing the typical "lesser of two evils" game. I told him that I really did like him. Maybe I feel this way because I invested emotionally in him in that way.
In any case it appears lots of other people feel like I do. This article focuses much more on "evangelicals" and how they're unhappy with Bush. For whatever reason I'm much more upset about the growth of government than about the moral reasons the article cited, even though I agree with what it says. Whatever our reasons for not being happy with Bush, Lileks compels us not to try to "teach the GOP a lesson" in November because Bush isn't perfect.
Friday, February 20, 2004
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