All's well inside my head

Meanwhile, back at the ranch everything is hunky-dory, peachy-keen in Bushland...

Those of us on the left who criticize this administration are used to being ignored by the objects of our scorn. Yet what is really frightening about our current leaders is how little they seem to care what anybody thinks. Even a Reagan-worshiping conservative wanker like Andrew Sullivan sees Dubya and his cronies as totally worthless:

Bush and his acolytes have poisoned the brand of conservatism for the foreseeable future. When you take a few steps back and look closely, you realize that Bush has managed both to betray conservatism and stigmatize it all at once. That's some achievement.

While Bush hasn't betrayed the billionare plutocrats who share his disdain for us common folk, he has indeed abandoned any shred of libertarian respect for individual rights, while at the same time not even pretending to care about careful stewardship of taxpayer's money. I mean, why bother when the filthy rich owners of Halliburton see no shame in draining billions from our Treasury while moving their headquarters to Dubai. This is why anyone in the presidential race who seeks a winning strategy cannot avoid taking on directly the kleptocracy that currently "governs" our nation. Pandering to the tiny fraction of 1% of people who control so much of our nation's wealth might help loosen the purse-strings of fatcat donors. But even Diebold couldn't rig an election against an unapologetic populist who had awoken the American masses to swarm into the polls in huge numbers.