Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:27:08 PM
As Jonah Goldberg recently observed, for the Left:
The best conservatives are always dead; the worst are
always alive and influential. When Buckley and Kristol, not to mention
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, were alive, they were hated and
vilified by the same sorts of people who now claim to miss the old gang.
The gold standard of the dead is always a cudgel, used to beat back the
living.
George W. Bush isn’t dead yet (as much as some on the Left might
wish), but he is out of office. Consequently, he is slowly (or maybe
not-so-slowly) gaining “strange new respect” from Lefties eager to bash conservatives still on the political stage.
Update (AP): Good points all from Karl, but don’t expect the SNR
to hit full force until after the election, natch. From now until then,
Bush will retain his pride of place as the font of all evil.
After election day, he can finally retire to the left’s stable of
“gee, I wish conservatives today were more like conservatives of the
past” Republicans with Reagan, etc.