A Campaign Pruned of Bushes
By FRANK BRUNI
NYT
THE sweater-vested theocrat Rick Santorum was in the midst of a customary jeremiad against the evils of “Obamacare” and the scourge of government regulations when I heard him utter something positively extraordinary:
The name of George W. Bush.
Remember him? Not long ago, he was president. For eight turbulent years. But you wouldn’t know it from listening to the Republican candidates who are vying to evict his Democratic successor and reclaim the White House for their party. On the subject of the way the country was governed — and how it fared — when they last ruled that particular roost, they’re almost consistently mum.
They seldom mention Bush positively. They seldom mention Bush negatively. They also never mention the Bush before Bush — the other slice of bread in the Clinton sandwich — and have thus turned the father and the son almost wholly into ghosts.
(More here.)
NYT
THE sweater-vested theocrat Rick Santorum was in the midst of a customary jeremiad against the evils of “Obamacare” and the scourge of government regulations when I heard him utter something positively extraordinary:
The name of George W. Bush.
Remember him? Not long ago, he was president. For eight turbulent years. But you wouldn’t know it from listening to the Republican candidates who are vying to evict his Democratic successor and reclaim the White House for their party. On the subject of the way the country was governed — and how it fared — when they last ruled that particular roost, they’re almost consistently mum.
They seldom mention Bush positively. They seldom mention Bush negatively. They also never mention the Bush before Bush — the other slice of bread in the Clinton sandwich — and have thus turned the father and the son almost wholly into ghosts.
(More here.)
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