Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative

Conservative Godfather William F. Buckley has discovered that Prez Dubya is not really a conservative:

“I think Mr. Bush faces a singular problem best defined, I think, as the absence of effective conservative ideology – with the result that he ended up being very extravagant in domestic spending, extremely tolerant of excesses by Congress,” Buckley says. “And in respect of foreign policy, incapable of bringing together such forces as apparently were necessary to conclude the Iraq challenge.

THe Chief had this figured out during the 2000 election, and saw it confirmed with the education bloat-bill deal with Kennedy early in 1981, and many subsequent actions (the McCain-Feingold Free Speech Limitation Campaign Finance Act, the pharmaceutical industry subsidy program, and others).

Why support him at all? Remember his opposition? ’nuff said.