GOP Leaders Want to Jump Ship

I need to make my rounds more often, otherwise I stand a decent chance of missing superb posts like Rox Populi's: Real Republicans Continue to Call for Bush Retirement.

Why is it so good? It quotes GOP folks saying its time for Bush to go away. Here are some quotes.

Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune columnist, "I can't vote Republican this year--and the stakes demand using any available instrument to remove Bush. Kerry is not the ideal instrument, just as a rubber raft is not the optimal vessel on the open sea. But when the ship is sinking, you can't be choosy."

The American Conservative has this to say about Bush, "Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations. The launching of an invasion against a country that posed no threat to the U.S., the doling out of war profits and concessions to politically favored corporations, the financing of the war by ballooning the deficit to be passed on to the nation’s children, the ceaseless drive to cut taxes for those outside the middle class and working poor: it is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. Add to this his nation-breaking immigration proposal—Bush has laid out a mad scheme to import immigrants to fill any job where the wage is so low that an American can’t be found to do it—and you have a presidency that combines imperialist Right and open-borders Left in a uniquely noxious cocktail."

And these are the people are that are supposed to be on his side!