Lexington bashes Bush

The Lexington column in The Economist issue dated today is in substance a diatribe against George W. Bush. The theme repeated throughout is that Bush screwed everything up and is incompetent. Despite that, according to Lexington, the GOP is not in disarray, as some suggest, and should not cut loose any element of the Republican coalition. Instead, Lexington says, Republicans ought to do some deep thinking.

There's nothing new in Lexington's words. The opinions expressed are sort of pundit dogma, mainstream pablum. History may be kinder to GWB than Lexington and those sharing Lexington's views. We'll see.