Bush/Cheney/GOP Insider Excoriates Administration in New Book

Says Bush 'Dan Quayle in Cowboy Boots,' Cheney 'Out of Control'...

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The deafening noise of scampering rats from the sinking ship continues.Following on the heels of Bush-Cheney’s chief ’04 campaign strategist, Matthew Dowd, over the weekend, GOP insider and Bush/Cheney family friend, Vic Gold, unloads on the two to WaPo in advance of his new book, Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP.

Gold, who was asked by Lynn Cheney to write the profiles of both Bush and Cheney and their wives for the official commemorative 2000 Inauguration program tells WaPo today:

“For all the Rove-built facade of his being a ‘strong’ chief executive, George W. Bush has been, by comparison to even hapless Jimmy Carter, the weakest, most out of touch president in modern times,” Gold writes. “Think Dan Quayle in cowboy boots.”

And on Cheney…

“A vice president in control is bad enough. Worse yet is a vice president out of control.”

“Men do not change, they unmask themselves.” Cheney has a deep streak of paranoia and megalomania, Gold suggests — but he says he did not see it at first.

“He was hiding who he really was,” Gold says. “He was waiting for an opportunity.”

The above point is particularly interesting in light of what Gold wrote about Cheney for the commemorative Inaugural program:

“A man of gravitas with a quick and easy wit; a conservative who’ll see a road less traveled; a political realist who sees his country and the world around him not in terms of leaden problems but golden opportunities.”

Indeed.

The parade of similar such defections, we suspect, will continue — exponentially — apace…

(Hat-tip to John Cole at Balloon Juice.)

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  1. 1)
    suds said on 4/2/2007 @ 5:13pm PT: [Permalink]

    Why should anybody believe them, now or ever?

    And how many Fox News interviews are the going to get now?

    And what kind of attitude will Fox Interrogators have in for them?

    The only way to know if confessionals and fink-tomes have any effect will be to see Fox cover them without cutting off their mics or blasting them behind their backs.

    I am not holding my breath.

  2. 4)
    Juliox said on 4/3/2007 @ 1:28am PT: [Permalink]

    Maybe that’s the giant sucking sound that Ross Perot warned us about: the sound of neo-cons jumping ship and going south

  3. 5)
    Larry Bergan said on 4/3/2007 @ 1:41am PT: [Permalink]

    Baseball maven George W. Bush becomes the first “president” since William G. Harding, NOT to throw the first pitch of the world series.

    Oh, come on Bush, it’s only Boo’s, not bullets, you coward!

  4. 6)
    Dredd said on 4/3/2007 @ 4:49am PT: [Permalink]

    I wonder what the bets are in Vegas on how many years the people will punish the republicans for allowing the neoCon infestation to morph them into fascists?

    Dem majority for thirty years anyone?

  5. 7)
    mia said on 4/3/2007 @ 6:00am PT: [Permalink]

    Go over to joeleonardi.wordpress.com and see what a true conservative thinks of what is going on. Joe has a lot of insight, he was a Congressional Candidate who overcame quite a few obstacles to stay in the race, but his party wouldn’t lift a finger until it was too late to really help him.
    His story is incredible, he has been reluctant to talk about it since the election but I heard him on a local talk radio program and went to work on his campaign.

    Again check it out:
    http://www.joeleonardi.wordpress.com

    Mia

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