Richard A. Stitt: George H.W. Bush Loves Vicious Dogs, Not Sick Puppies

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by Richard A. Stitt
 
In an interview after President Barack Obama's visit to Texas A&M University campus, George H.W. Bush decried the incivility that he hears from both sides of the political spectrum. "I don't like it. The cables (TV) have a lot to do with it."
 
"The way they treat my son and anyone who's opposed to their point of view is just horrible," Mr. Bush said.
 
"When our son was president, they just hammered him mercilessly and I think obscenely a lot of the time and now it's moved to a new president," he added.
 
Having expressed his disgust with such name-calling and "merciless" criticism of his son, Bush the First wasted no time in launching into his own ad hominem attack, saying that he thought Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann are "sick puppies."
 
No doubt, today's level of personal attacks has escalated far beyond the days of Lee Atwater who, by today's hyperventilating media rants, was a piker.
 
On NBC's "Today," Jamie Gangel asked Rush Limbaugh how he felt about Sarah Palin and George W. Bush:

JAMIE GANGEL: Sarah Palin.

RUSH: I admire her. People have tried to destroy her. She's got more of a backbone than any man in the Democrat Party.

JAMIE GANGEL: George W. Bush.

RUSH: He's just the most decent, down-to-earth, real man you could ever hope to meet.

Gangel asked him about Glenn Beck: "Do you worry about the new guy on the block?

RUSH: No. In 1988, I'm the only national conservative voice. Now look at conservative media. Look what I have spawned. Glenn Beck to me is, "Right on, daddy-O!" Glenn Beck is the result of my success.

Bush 41 has every right to defend his son's performance, calamitous as it was to the majority of Americans. But, he doesn't have a right to whine and denigrate his son's critics as "sick puppies" when in fact the 2008 presidential campaign was the dirtiest, most racist, hate-filled, despicable display of character attacks we've ever experienced.
 
Sarah Palin's "backbone" consisted of calling Barack Obama every name in the book, accusing him of "palling around with terrorists" and wanting to "raise the white flag of surrender" to America's foes. It doesn't take any backbone or intelligence to spout verbatim the Rush Limbaugh venom and incendiary rhetoric that the Republican Party's sole aim and mission is to destroy Barack Obama, hurt our country, and subvert our democracy.
 
Limbaugh's reverence for the last president who left office as the most failed presidency in our history is as malignant as it is completely irrational. "The most decent, down-to-earth, real man you could ever hope to meet," left our country and the next administration with a collapsed economy; two failed wars, one in Afghanistan which he abandoned; the other in Iraq -- all because of a WMD fabrication against a broken country that had absolutely nothing to do with America's interests or security.
 
There is nothing "decent" or "down-to-earth" about such a sinister, invidious, calumnious individual, the perverse Rush Limbaugh or the depraved Republican Party they represent. Who but the most traitorous and unpatriotic people would hope and pray for our president and our country to fail? The entire Republican Party, that's who.
 
Though George H.W. Bush may deplore the vicious, toxic tone that our political discourse has taken in recent years he, Bush 43 and the Republican Party are the ones who decided to sic the wild dogs on any opponent or any person who had the trepidation to challenge them on their own turf.
 
It is the reprobate Republican Party who nurtured and bred the diseased, worm-infested packs of predators that have become savage attack dogs in their quest to pull themselves down into the bowels of Hell. Maybe "sick puppies," such as Limbaugh's spawn of Glenn Beck, are the inevitable offspring of a vicious unrestrained party that has no ethical bounds or morals as long as they can achieve their diabolical ends.
 
Democrats finally got back into the game in 2008. They know where the wild things are and how they feed.
 
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Richard A. Stitt
Austin, Texas

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