Crunchy Con

The Beau Brummel of the Pecos

Tuesday September 4, 2007

Categories: Republicans
Texas Monthly's got a sneak preview of its big Robert Draper piece about George W. Bush up on its site now. I love this part about how just after he was elected Texas governor, his advisers went in and cleaned...
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jaybird
September 4, 2007 2:35 PM

I just saw a pic of the POTUS a few weeks ago, where he was wearing a pair of Crocs™ with shorts and black socks. It was an impeachable offense if I've ever seen one.

Anonymous
September 4, 2007 3:53 PM

I thought this was one of those emperors without visible clothing, or would that be a wolfskin?

John E.
September 4, 2007 4:35 PM

They also cleaned out his driving record - both he and the Mizzus got new driver's license numbers.

Must be nice to wipe away drunk driving and manslaughter.

Joey
September 4, 2007 5:10 PM

Was anybody else imagining a kind of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" kind of thing there? :-)

God bless.

Daniel
September 4, 2007 6:11 PM

It seems painful to watch the efforts he went in his life to distance himself from all that privilege and those high expectations. All those years rejecting dad's values, only to spend his presidency trying to apologize for it by affirming those who surrounded dad.

Anonymous Also
September 4, 2007 10:14 PM

No, Joey, I too was imagining Carson having apoplexy when he saw the Bushman's closet, all to a glorious club mix beat. :-)

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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.

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