Tea Partiers Need To Come To Terms With Bush

By Kleinheider Posted on April 14, 2009 at 9:05 am

Dan Lehr lets the “tea party” movement know what he thinks of them:

If you are Republican or conservative, there are many reasons for you to oppose Barack Obama. But it will be hard to make an effective argument against him unless and until you figure out what President Bush did to bring you to your current state.

And I’m not talking about anything having to do with Bush’s stances on various issues. It has far more to do with execution. Even though I disagreed with most of his platform, my main gripe against him was that he did not manage the office of the presidency well. He and his followers clung to ideology and largely supported him regardless of whether what he was doing was furthering the conservative cause or not.

Republicans and conservatives need to work on excising a tendency towards blind loyalty, and grow your tolerance for intra-party debate.

You will only emerge stronger if you do so.

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