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Bush went to Andover and Yale. He is as Eastern Establishment as they come. He has to spend the rest of his life hanging out with Country Club Republicans. I have worked with many of Bush's friends and they are all Country Club Republicans. I worked with one of his roomates from school and he told me that none of Bush's close friends are pro-life. When he goes to his Andover and Yale reunions there are no pro-life people in the room. If he was responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade his peer group would never forgive him.
I was wondering when he was going to make the "retirement" shift. Start sucking up to the people that matter most to him.
In addition, W. is intensly loyal to his father. The conservative pundits have been praising W. but lambasting his father. They made the mistake of thinking that Bush wouldn't mind people critisizing daddy. I was wondering when the chickens were going to come home to roost.
Bush sucked up to the conservatives to get reelected (and not make the same mistake his father made). He followed Rove's strategy of appealing to the base to win, and all his recent decisions about family planning etc. have been all about courting the base.
But when it came to the big issue, Roe v. Wade, upon reflection, W was never going to let it be overturned. His wife is pro-choice, his mother is pro-choice and his father changed to being pro-life when he was vice president to a pro-life president (how sincere do you think that was). The problem with ideologues (like Religious believers) is that they are so sure in their convictions that it doesn't occur to them that someone could fake it. They are convinced once someone really understands their arguments they have to take their side. W. understand's their arguments so it does not occure to them that he is faking it.
When W. was faced with spending the rest of his life being hated by the Ann Coulters and Pat Robertsons of the world, or by the people closest to him, I don't think there was ever any doubt which way he would go on these Supreme Court Nominees.
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