The link you provide in your initial post is so reprehensible it makes one question just where your head is in moments of solidarity and reflection. Anyone with some modicum of computer skills can manipulate pictures to show a jaundiced, perverted view of humanity and I am just amazed that you would use this piece of trash as the shot across our bow to make you point.
With respect to the substance of the reviling accusation by Phillips, first of all, how can one say that the Bush family is America's first DYNASTY when, using the standards that Phillips proposes, the Kennedy's had the Bush's beat by at least a decade.
With respect to the thread of conspiracy he tries to weave into a blanket of disgrace, this supposed "conservative" has been disappointed at the Republican party evolution since the days of Gerald Ford's defeat in 1976. In contrast to his being taughted as a chief republican technician in the 1980 campaign, Phillips was distraught at the idea that an "actor" could take over as the standard bearer of what he believed the Republican party should be....a counter balance to the excesses of the Democrats but never a "blue collar" majority as reflected in the "Reagan Revolution" of Democrats, disaffected union members, Catholics, etc. He thought of these people as the "rabble" that would change the workings of the Republican party system. He was ashamed that Ronald Reagan was regarded by many within the first tier of historic Presidents such as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt.
Phillips became a "populist" railing against supply side economic theory and promoting substantial tax increases in the late 1980s. This was just as the economy was beginning to stumble. And what did George H. W. do, he followed his counsel (at least in effect). What followed was a slump in the economy that ultimately caused G.H.W. his office.
Kevin Phillips almost went into aploplexy over former House Speaker Jim Wright's removal from his disgraceful role (and set out to help remove Nwt Gingrich when he took over that seat in 1995. Some republican, eh?
Kevin Phillips is so "populist" that he thinks regulations should be increased to make airline travel less affordable and, therefore, only the affluent can fly. So much for the "hoiey-polloie" going to Disney World at spring break.
Kevin Phillips has spent most of his time over the last two decades speading his fertilizer over National Public Radio, the only media outlet that will give him a paycheck (CBS uses him occasionally during the presidential campaigns). I guess if one has no groundings or core principles, then one will assert anything to keep up a Litchfield, CT lifestyle (I lived in good ole blue collar Manchester when I was a citizen of the Nutmeg State).
Phillips uses crackpots as sources in his book and is not above making things up to serve his purpose.
National Review set many of these claims aside as the filth that it is in March of this year.
<a href='http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/schweizer200403300907.asp' target='_blank'>Kevin Phillips Politics of Deceit</a>
I tend to try to look at all things with an critical but open mind. It seems that some will try to fill an open mind with the absurd.
And another thing, your "Bush Looks Like A Chimp" link is childish and reflects upon your attitude coming into the discussion.
