Worse Than Bush

Are you nostalgic for George W. Bush? The New York Times is - at least when compared to the current crop of GOP candidates for president. Here is the Gray Lady's reaction to Monday's Republican debate:

For the moment, the candidates are appealing to a Republican Party whose core is so contorted in fury at Mr. Obama that it barely resembles the one that nominated George W. Bush in 2000. Mr. Bush may have prosecuted the war on terror to excess, but he always reminded the country that it was not at war with Islam. This batch of Republicans has dispensed with such niceties.

This is standard operating procedure for the left (i.e., attack current conservatives by claiming they are much more extreme than the reasonable conservatives of the past). We're also starting to see the outline of Obama's re-election campaign. The President can't run against Bush, as he did in 2008. He's already used those bullets. Instead, whoever the GOP nominee is will be attacked by Obama's MSM allies as being 'worse than Bush.'