Hypocrisy, thy name is Peggy Noonan

I love how the big time Bush boosters are suddenly pretending that they knew all along Bush was an arrogant, clueless, careless, disrespectful buffoon caught in arrested adolescence. Good old Pegs trots out a little anecdote from last year to "prove" her prescience, where she privately predicted the GOP would lose in 06. Funny, she didn't care to share those thoughts sooner. Up until a couple of weeks ago, she was still up there waving her pompoms and effectively calling the Democratic party treasonous for daring to challenge the president.

Well she's still mocking the Dems, but now that it's clear to everybody that in a fair election the GOP would get trounced, she offers up her "mature and experienced" nuanced view that the GOP needs to lose in order to reclaim its conservative roots. If she's so bloody smart, why did it take her almost six years to notice our president is incompetent?

I'm still not convinced Rove won't steal the vote again with the ever present Diebold anomalies, but on the off chance that he figures out an inexplicable win by the GOP could likely start a citizen's uprising this time, and he allows a fair election to occur, that doesn't let Peggy and the rest of Bush's fair weather, bootlicking pundits off the hook. As Glenn Greenwald so succintly points out:

The disasters facing our country didn't happen because George Bush, the individual, was flawed. They have happened because the entire movement which propped him up and glorified him for so long is craven, corrupt and radical. It is critical that they not be permitted to jettison Bush (now that he has outlived his purpose) while pretending that he failed to adhere to what they wanted.

Exactly. If it wasn't for the smug, gravy train riding pundits like Noonan and her ilk, we would have been rid of Bush in 04 and avoided a whole lot of unneccessary death and debt. It's a little too late for her to be asking the left to forgive and forget their transgressions. We'll probably forgive them when this nightmare presidency is over. It's in our nature to forgive, but we will never forget, nor should allow them to either.