George W. Who? Never Heard Of Him.

I recently wrote a few posts on how conservatives are increasingly attempting to distance themselves from the President and his ideology. They insist that he is barely a conservative at all and they're very disappointed in his performance. Keep in mind that nothing in his ideology or performance has changed at all since he took office, only the way the public views him. It was a lot easier for conservatives to worship President Bush with 70% approval than it is at 30% approval.

This strategy seems to me an attempt to protect the conservative platform by painting the failures of the past few years as failures of the White House only and not the Republican politics they so strongly pushed. I write this update because as new reports show the Republicans increasingly vulnerable in congressional races, I find more and more of this distancing on the right-wing blogs I read. On no issue is this more apparent than the current immigration 'debate' (great take on that by Andrew Sullivan here).

Will it work? As always, we'll find out in November.





Related articles:
-NY Times: In House Races, More G.O.P. Seats Look Vulnerable
-Knight Ridder: Americans don't like President Bush personally much anymore, either
-Washington Post: Bush's Base Betrayal