GOP insider: Bush is 'Dan Quayle in cowboy boots'
04/02/2007 @ 7:44 pm
rawstory.com
Victor Gold, a friend of George H.W. Bush and the Cheney family, will release a book slamming the Bush administration entitled, "Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP."
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"For all the Rove-built facade of his being a 'strong' chief executive, George W. Bush has been, by comparison to even hapless Jimmy Carter, the weakest, most out of touch president in modern times," Gold writes. "Think Dan Quayle in cowboy boots."
In 2001, Gold wrote glowing biographies of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for their first inauguration at the request of Lynn Cheney.
"A man of gravitas with a quick and easy wit," is how he described Cheney then.
In his soon to be released book, Gold refers to Cheney as a "a vice president out of control," who has a touch of paranoia and is a megalomaniac, reports the Washington Post
"In many ways, Gold's tale of disillusionment is a familiar one," continues the Post. "There are plenty of veterans of Reagan and Bush 41 around town who believe Bush and Cheney trashed the institutions and party they helped build from the wreckage of the Goldwater campaign. ... But there aren't many who have been on a first-name basis with those they believe are doing the trashing. There aren't many like Vic Gold."
(Thanks to Brad Friedmen for the tip.) |
