Posted the following on Joe Scarborough's Facebook page:

I listened to your love fest regarding the opening of the George W. Bush library and I don’t see why you are all in such a lather about the housing of his comic book collection.

George Bush’s only mission now is to reinvent his past and you are helping because, despite what you know to be true, despite your basically centrist attitudes, you still pay homage to a destroyed party and, make no mistake, they did it to themselves.

Interesting that Mrs. Bush, the mother, thinks Jeb ought not to run because, you know, it’s so demoralizing to be attacked from all sides. Jeb should have run instead of George to start with – we all know this. But he already was a governor and they just didn’t know what to do with George. I wish I’d been a fly on the wall when he emerged with a “go” for the presidency in that family meeting I envision them having. Sort of like that bedside scene in the first “Godfather” movie where Sonny explains to the wounded Don that Fredo is going to go to Vegas, and Fredo scuffs his foot on the rug, looks bashfully proud because he is going to get to do something/be someone, and says, “Yeah, I’m going to learn the casino business.”

If the American public’s favorable view of George Bush is gaining, it is because we live in a country where many want to feel good, many want to be forgiving, (particularly when there is no danger of this fellow ever having that kind of power again), and a great many people have political Alzheimer’s and don’t remember the truly destructive decisions George W. Bush made in order to prove to his father that he could succeed in the Gulf where the father did not.

Future generations, however, will not have the immediacy of his “charm” (it always eluded me because true intelligence is always more appealing than a quirky, down-home smile), and they will just go on the facts. Face it, the George W. Bush legacy is a disaster and his rating as president will remain in the toilet.

And before you go all quar and trembly over the possible candidacy of Jeb Bush, remember, he will still be stuck with a Party that has shifted so far to the Right, it makes Ghengis Khan look like a touchy-feely Liberal.


xx, Teal