Has His Baseball Past Done Bush And The Republicans In?

Observing the Bush Presidency these days is somewhat like watching a baseball game when you'd prefer being off playing golf, or taking in a football game if you were absolutely stuck in front of a TV.

As in baseball, Bush appears to have no sense of momentum and what it takes to change it during the game. That works in baseball, a meandering game which sorts itself out one way or another by end, but time is running out on President Bush and the Republican legislature.

But conservatives don't blame the current mess just on Bush. They recognize the problem today is also at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

Perhaps convinced he has the better team, Bush seems to continue on just trying to make contact, not even swinging for the fence, if you will, as witnessed by his muddled position on the issue of immigration reform. Were Bush of a football mindset, he'd realize what he and Republicans as a whole need right now is nothing short of the big play. Instead, they seem content to wander about playing games much like the proverbial boys of summer, hoping things will look better in the Fall when they return from some road trip.

There's even a bit of Those Damn Yankee's thrown in with their attempts to excite the usual home team fans by playing on the image of the opposition in the persons of Pelosi and perhaps a Howard Dean.

But real sports fans know simply not liking the opposition is never enough to win and Conservatives, especially, may prove immune to such pleas - perhaps thinking that they, at last, had become the Yankee's, not some silly farm team struggling away outside Duluth in the Cold Stove League.

via RCP:

Viguerie's piece is yet another sign of the conservative exodus taking place from the Bush administration. Jed Babbin struck a similar note in RealClearPolitics on Thursday, and I covered the topic my column in the Chicago Sun-Times, which ended with this:

To return to the baseball analogy to close things out, Conservatives have been the legal steroid of the Republican Party for two decades and now, having gotten to the top of the ninth, some Republicans appear to think they don't really need the juice, ... the help anymore. They may be in for quite a surprise.

Now disaffected and always independent, Conservatives could, in a sense, start looking to field an expansion team of their own. Whether it ultimately takes the field in a Republican uniform or not is still very much up in the air. And most worrisome of all for Republicans, the infield fly rule may not be in effect.

via Richard Viguerie at Conservatives Betrayed

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Comments

[chris malone]

Perhaps The Damn Yankees is a good point of reference in explaining the Bush White House and the Republicans on Capital Hill. George Bush as Lou "Tanglefoot" Gehrig! John McCain as the guy who takes the first bite out of Babe Ruths straw hat and that dope from Nebraska as his second. With Lindsay Graham doing his insurance salesman impersonation trying to sell the sellout.