Born-again Bush Bashers -- or -- Woo hoo! I aniticipated a Paul Krugman article

Paul Krugman's 03/10 NYT opinion piece is brilliant and states better what I wrote about on 02/26.

The article is entitled "The Conservative Epiphany" . He describes yet two more prominent conservatives, Bruce Barlett and Andrew Sullivan, turning their backs on Republican leadership.

A couple key sentences points:

It's no wonder, then, that one commentator wrote of Mr. Bartlett that "if he were a cartoon character, he would probably look like Donald Duck during one of his famous tirades, with steam pouring out of his ears."

Oh, wait. That's not what somebody wrote about Mr. Bartlett. It's what Mr. Bartlett wrote about me in September 2003, when I was saying pretty much what he's saying now.

So very very true. This is all part of the terrible dishonesty of so many very smart conservative scholars. He also specifically mentions Andrew Sullivan: "Mr. Sullivan used to specialize in denouncing the patriotism and character of anyone who dared to criticize President Bush, whom he lionized"

And as I wrote about Katrina and Brown's recent "rehabilitation":

... we should guard against a conventional wisdom that seems to be taking hold in some quarters, which says there's something praiseworthy about having initially been taken in by Mr. Bush's deceptions, even though the administration's mendacity was obvious from the beginning.

Again, so very very true.

And finally, he also writes: "The point is that pundits who failed to notice the administration's mendacity a long time ago either weren't doing their homework, or deliberately turned a blind eye to the evidence."

Paul K. is still willing to give these new Born-again Bush Bashers a bit of a fig leaf -- they were just lazy, got "taken in", saw all the beautiful shiny bits and pieces thrown in front of them by the administration.... Even the phrase, "deliberately turned a blind eye to the evidence" is a nice way to say, "LIARS, LIARS, LIARS!!!".

And his article is the first time I'm hearing the phrase, "Born Again Bush Bashers" ... I love it.