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• Sunday, January 6, 2008 08:06 AM

  A Foolish Consistency

  "I think that what we're looking for is a president we can count on, that you know where that president is yesterday, today and tomorrow.

  If the Bush presidency proved anything, its that you can reinvent yourself without changing direction. Bush the globalist, the big spender, the new New Deal, the ownership society, amnesty for illegals, walking hand in hand down the aisle with Democrats. Perhaps you want to believe that 9/11 reinvented Bush, but he signed off on WTO for China a week after the attack.

  Bush may have succeeded at changing tack, if he hadn't insisted he wasn't changing message. He was flipping and flopping so hard we weren't sure we could keep him in the boat. To maintain the deception he hammered Iraq, Iraq was his rock. All around that rock the waters were swirling.

  The question for these Democrats, Hillary: If you think continuity is the thing, why not resign right now, and move to Paraguay? For Obama: Those inspirational moments may fool some kids in Iowa, but there are some people in this country who lived through the FIRST great depression. For Edwards: is being the Trail-Lawyer-in-Chief really a good idea. Who's going to be your VP, Spitzer?

  The candidate who can change without appearing to change has the best chance this year, because the world one of these people will be in charge of, will not allow for a foolish consistency of judgement.

  —aveutter Read aveutter's other letters
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