Dare I dream?

In election year, GOP wary of following Bush

Is it possible that republicans are finally waking up to the nightmare in the White House? It's hard to tell whether they mirror the public in recent polls that put president shrub's approval rating at 34%, or whether they are now just trying to save their own asses from a horribly sinking ship. The more that I think about it, the more I realize that the sinking ship analogy is pretty apropos.

Before Titanic left the dock and also early into the voyage:

• You had people who questioned the decision to set sail without the proper safety measures and a lack of previous successful voyages (democrats and independents).
• You had people who crafted responses to assuage the fear that anything would happen to the unsinkable ship (Karl Rove, Scott McClellan, etc.).
• You had people who either couldn't be bothered to care about the lack of safety boats on board or people who simply believed the responses about the unsinkable ship (republicans).
• You had the captain and other related individuals who ignored warnings about icebergs in the area, and ordered additional burners to be lit because it would be way cool to get to port earlier than anticipated (president shrub and his cabinet).

While the ship was sinking:

• You had the women and children getting onto the lifeboats first (democrats and independents).
• You had the men who tried everything to get onto a lifeboat (the republicans now turning away from their fearless leader).
• You had people, such as the captain and the band, who went down with the ship (the republicans standing by their fearless leader, president shrub and his cabinet).

Thinking back over the last 6 years with shrub in office, I wonder how it could possibly have taken people so long to question his "leadership". Oh, I know all about framing, and I know that the republican party does a fabulous job of framing issues in such a way that they can easily mislead the flocks. And when you're talking about a party composed, in part, by such groups as the born-again Christians, "flock" isn't an inappropriate term. These are people who read the bible literally; if they can't bother to analyze a historical book that was written by scads of people in a different language during a different political and cultural time, and then translated over and over, then why would we expect them to analyze anything else? I'm not attacking their belief system, because I do believe in freedom of religion in this country. I am, however, stating that I think it's ridiculous to take anything like the bible at face value. And I do disagree with them trying to force their religion on everyone in the country by turning their beliefs into laws.

But, I digress. I just hope that when it comes to election time in November, people take a deeper look at what's going on in our country and feel as disgusted about the failure of our government as I do.