Jeb Bush says the GOP must “leave Reagan behind” but can’t bring himself to recommend the same regarding Bushes 41 and 43.

Neither can the GOP, apparently. Now the party stalwartly entrenched in the meaningless minority turns to Bush trough dwellers and ignoramae (is that the Latin plural feminine accusative for ignoramus?) to lead the party message out of the darkness. Especially guaranteed to keep the GOP in deep doo-doo is Dana Perino, famous for never having heard about the Cuban Missile Crisis as she explained away Bush’s winsome wars.

Jeb says the GOP must put Reagan behind us. Perhaps the better advice is to put the GOP behind us.

via LewRockwell.com Blog: GOP Death Wish, Continued.

Am I the only one to see a parallel between the GOP’s total disconnect from reality and the disconnect demonstrated by our economic overlords?  Everyone knows that the bailouts are all driven by corruption and that trillion dollar deficits are about to cause disaster in the economy, but our leaders keep going forward (whether under Bush or Obama makes no difference).  And everyone knows the GOP needs to leave Bush behind but the party apparatus is oblivious.  Just as we give the people who caused the crisis authority to do the same to fix the crisis, so we ask people who destroyed the GOP how to fix it.

Pure madness. With Obama out-Bushing Bush, this is the perfect time for the GOP to make a comeback by throwing Bush under the bus (late, I know, but I suspect the Obama economy would shorten memories and grudges).  But it seems that McCain’s idiotic campaign was a taste of things to come (McCain would have had a serious chance if he had opposed the bailout rather than that “I’m suspending my campaign” ploy to back it).