Republicans, To Destroy Secularism--Save Yourself, Blame Bush

Yesterday I wrote:

"Do you think that Bush has suddenly spun out of control and with Karl Rove tightly holding the reins of re-election for his party, is now somehow suddenly losing it?

Think again.

Bush may be wildly panicked that he committed international war crimes in water-boarding confessions out of prisoners, and willing to do anything to avoid prosecution, but there's plenty of time for him to cover his ass and election timing now is the key to everything. This is clearly a set-up for an election strategy that will polarize the wedges and magnets going into elections. Republicans holding House control is his protection."

On Friday Joe Scarborough wrote:

Save Yourself, Blame Bush: "I can't help but feel sorry for my old Republican friends in Congress who are fighting for their political lives. After all, it must be tough explaining to voters at their local Baptist church's Keep Congress Conservative Day that it was their party that took a $155 billion surplus and turned it into a record-setting $400 billion deficit.

How exactly does one convince the teeming masses that Republicans deserve to stay in power despite botching a war, doubling the national debt, keeping company with Jack Abramoff, fumbling the response to Hurricane Katrina, expanding the government at record rates, raising cronyism to an art form, playing poker with Duke Cunningham, isolating America and repeatedly electing Tom DeLay as their House majority leader?

How does a God-fearing Reagan Republican explain all that away?

Easy. Blame George W. Bush."

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Of course, you GOP candidates can be sure that such attacks will annoy Bush, even though your survival may be all that stands between him and a crazy Democratic chairman launching impeachment hearings. But if you win this fall only to face his stern rebuke next winter, just tell him it was schadenfreude for all the times the White House treated you badly. With any luck, Bush will think you are talking about that Berlin disco that Moammar Gaddafi bombed back in 1986 and then dismiss you like the worthless billy goat he always suspected you were.

See how easy it is to see their strategy when you take the cynical approach and ask WWKD (What Would Karl Do)?