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GERGEN: BUSH A "RADICAL" RIGHT-WINGER
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"Much Farther to the Right of Reagan"
Mr. G.O.P. Conventional Wisdom Shocked By What's Happened
Dubya May Be Religious Fanatic, Too, Gergan Says
Earth to Fineman... Earth to Fineman...

David Gergen is the about last person Washington looks to for outlandish, strident judgments about the political scene. Especially about the dim son of his old boss and great pal, George H. W. Bush.

But now, appearing on CNBC, Mr. Conventional Wisdom Gergen had described Dubya, with obvious shock and dismay, as a "radical" right-winger who may well be operating under fanatic religious delusions of grandeur.

GERGEN: But his act--his policies, his actual governance... <...> is far--much farther to the right of Reagan. It's--it--there--there's a radical conservatism that runs through much of the Bush policy, whether it's tax cuts or affirmative action or the environment or education or dismantling The Great Society. It's--I think it's been a major surprise.

Later in the interview, Gergen confirms the frightening possibility that Bush may truly believe that he is God's anointed, fulfilling some crackpot fundamentalist religious mission:

GERGEN: One of the interesting questions that I don't think anybody knows the answer to is whether, to--to--to some extent, he believes that--that providence intervened in his life at an earlier stage and whether, somehow, providence is now on the side of America and that he somehow may be an instrument of providence that--par--part of what he's on <...> is a mission that has so--some sort of theological roots.

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