I received a lot of terrific responses to yesterday’s post about what Bush could do with his time should he lose next week, but I thought I’d share one particularly amusing one.
One very clever reader, lets call him D.B., identified the one career in which Bush could truly excel.
I guess maybe you didn’t cover it because it was so obvious, but Bush will obviously become a faith-healing tele-evangelist. He’s been running the exact campaign that it’d take to lose without getting blown out, by only appealing to his base. And it’s also made perfect practice for his evangelist show.
He loves the power, but hates the job. And he obviously loves being on the campaign trail far more than being in the White House. That sounds like the perfect combo for a religious talker.
Might it be beneath a President to be a TV evangelist? Maybe, but none of the people that love him will think so. They’ll just see it as a step up. The people who love Bush, love tele-evangelists. And the same people who deride Bush are the ones who deride tele-evangelism. It’s like a two-fer. They can even broadcast it into Iraq for missionary purposes.
Excellent idea. I’ve been to Bush events and I’ve been TV preacher Pat Robertson’s rallies — I’ve even seen a Bush speech at a Pat Robertson rally — and I can tell you the similarities are striking. Like televangelists, Bush talks about faith but doesn’t act in a particularly pious fashion. And like televangelists, Bush has sycophantic fans who will gladly give him money, even when (especially when) he doesn’t need or deserve it. Bush and televangelists even claim to have special relationships with God, offering them unique insights.
Sounds to me like D.B. stumbled upon Bush’s true, ahem, calling.