Actually everything is his fault. It is a general rule that will work 9 times out of 10. But how about for the sorry state of the GOTP candidates. Is this Bush's fault too?
Here is some Bi-Coastal Elitist applying the Bush Rule and blaming Bush for the really shitty GOTP presidential candidates:
A successful Presidency can produce a new crop of future Presidential candidates for the party that controls the White House. The vice president and cabinet officials, as well as governors and senators elected over the course of the administration, are historically major sources for a party’s next round of candidates. The Bush years had the opposite effect. It was unthinkable that his vice president would run for higher office and much of his cabinet left Washington tainted by the President’s unpopularity. Moreover, Bush helped sink his party in the 2006 and 2008 elections, thus depleting the ranks of potential Republican candidates for 2012.
OK I suppose this may be true - to some extent. It turns out that when you are in doubt about whether this thing or that is Bush's fault, it is a safe bet to go with the Bush Rule. And while it is safe to give Bush some of the blame, everything is his fault after all, I think the Right Wing Counter Culture has more to do with the state of affairs in the GOTP. Remember it was the same Right Wing Counter Culture propagated by the Foxnews, the AM radio and the wingnut-O-sphere that propped up Bush and when he was done created and empowered the radicals of the Tea Party. It is Tea Party Radicalism that scared away all the sane conservatives from running for President this year. That is why they are left with Willard. He's the only one of them that can be both pro-Tea Party and anti-Tea Party at the same time.
Is Bush to blame? Why not. We can just add the current crop of Presidential Candidates to the list of thing he's screwed up, but I think the more fundamental cause of this current unpleasantness is the Right Wing Counter Culture.
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