The obvious cause of the right's implosion is the implosion of the Bush presidency.
The most obvious cause of the implosion of the Bush presidency is the disaster in Iraq.
But the attempt to do so could yet provide a grand theme to the Bush presidency.
Both mags recently ran big stories about the Bush presidency, presumed to be foundering, or even lost.
Importantly, the marriage between conservatism and a robust federal government was not unique to the Bush presidency.
And in an odd way, this State of the Union address brings the Bush presidency full circle.
And significantly for the campaign, a majority says that McCain would be a continuation of the Bush presidency.
The policy came into force in the dying days of the Bush presidency.
Of all the serious and genuinely damaging leaks during the Bush presidency, this was the only one the press chased.
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The lesson of the Bush presidency, he says, is that the fruits of fiscal prudence are squandered by subsequent irresponsibility.
This willingness to abandon principles in the blind desire to produce results is becoming a theme of the Bush presidency.
More broadly, the movement re-energized and in some cases, scared conservatives demoralized and dispirited in the aftermath of the Bush presidency and Obama victory.
Or the scorn with which many look back at the Bush presidency.
Similarily, if Time or Newsweek declares the Bush presidency dead, contrarian readers will know that Bush has bottomed and things are looking up.
The financial crisis that autumn overshadowed the end of the Bush presidency and catapulted Barack Obama into the day-to-day policy spotlight even before his inauguration.
But all that was completely wiped out during the Bush presidency.
Where does the Bush presidency end in this presidency when it comes to the economy, and where does this President pick up in taking responsibility for the economy?
This was the two-decade political consensus until the Bush Presidency.
The Bush presidency has been shrinking ever since his second-term agenda (primarily Social Security reform) collapsed in Congress and his remaining credibility was blown away in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina.
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In Washington, Clintonistas dream about the Bush presidency being a mere interregnum between Bill and Hillary, but out in the states it is not so much an interregnum as an optical illusion.
At their convention, Republicans sought to ram home their advantage by linking two favourite themes: the war on terror is the defining feature of the Bush presidency, and Mr Kerry is a flip-flopper.
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Should that happen, it would surely mark the end of the Bush presidency, the beginning of the Baker regency and a congressionally abetted undoing of American power in the face of emboldened and ever-more-dangerous foes.
Mr McClellan is the very definition of a Bushie an Austin native who joined Mr Bush's staff in 1999 and worked his way up to become press secretary at the most traumatic time in the Bush presidency.
Kerry took special note of one indelible image from the Bush presidency -- Bush, standing amid the ruins of the World Trade Center with one arm draped around a firefighter, declaring his resolve in the face of terror.
The dream scenario is that with the Bush presidency out of the way and Obama flashing a smile, Syria's President Bashar Assad will break off his romance with Tehran and partner with Washington in bringing peace to the region.
Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on the assumption that he would be the president who got the United States out of the wars in the greater Middle East that had cause so much dissent during the Bush presidency.
But he predicted visitors would find it "more objective" than they might have imagined, and he showed little interest in revisiting flashpoints like Iraq, Hurricane Katrina or the 2008 financial crisis, or the scorn with which many look back at the Bush presidency.
Whereas appearing interested in reaching an accommodation with Washington made sense during the Bush presidency, when hawks and doves were competing for the president's ear, today, with the Obama administration populated solely by doves, Iran, like North Korea, believes it has nothing to gain by pretending to care about accommodating Washington.
This no-nonsense, former two-term governor has repeatedly expressed frustration over Capitol Hill's inability to overcome the petty partisan politics practiced by Senator Tom Daschle (Democrat-South Dakota) et al. Early on in the Bush presidency, Miller supported the President's tax cut package, recognizing before most of his colleagues that the economy was faltering.
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