Okay, I know. It's easy to land punches when the other guy is leading with his chin and, when you go to Fox News, it's a veritable sea of chins. Take this example from a story written by Dick Morris and Ellen McGann headlined "Is Hillary Showing Her Age?":
"The smartest thing George W. Bush did as he pursued the presidency in 2000 was to jettison his father's former campaign team and start his own bid for the White House from scratch. He realized that times had changed in the 12 years that had elapsed since his Dad was elected, and that the old guard would be set in the old ways. So, he reached out for new people with new ideas — people Dad hadn't known well back in 1988, like Karl Rove and Karen Hughes — to pilot him to victory in 2000."
The smartest thing he did? It was then that he let one of the guys from his Dad's old team, Dick Cheney, glom onto the job of running mate which, in turn, let Dick open the back door to the team of presidential policy cat burglars we more commonly know as the "neo-cons." Before he knew it, Shrub's campaign team had him up to his alligators in extremists like Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Hadley, Perle, Bolton, Adelman - the gang that swept him off his feet by putting his name on their radical doctrine that we now know as the "Bush Doctrine."
By the way, Bush's new team didn't exactly "pilot him to victory." Bush was appointed president, something he owes, in no small measure, to the intervention of one of his Dad's old team, James Baker III, who led the charge at the Supreme Court after Jeb's cronie, Kathleen Harris had "fixed" the Florida vote.
Actually that might have been the smartest thing Bush did. Everything he's done since that time has been even more stupid.
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