So how long before...

young Robert Hughes, the teenaged son of former Bush Family retainer Karen Hughes, joins the army and decamps for Iraq?
Yeah I know it's a cheap shot but it is to be expected given the way his battle-ax of a mother criticized John Kerry's war record and then started equating pro-choicers with terrorists.
In other words its April in an election year and the GOP is waving every bloody shirt it can lay it's filthy mitts on.
Poor Robert, if his mother keeps sounding off like that, Fallujah by way of the First Cavalry, will seem like a warm and inviting place.
Karen Hughes-in all her brutish glory is a handy example of the spiritual rot that pervades the GOP in particular and movement conservatism in general.
Ousted by Karl Rove back in 2002, Karen made all the embarrassing Betty Crocker noises asserting that she wanted to go back to Texas and be near her family-especially her teenaged son Robert.
Quote the olde misanthrope, what rubbish!
She'd still be on the White House staff today if Rove hadn't forced her out-possibly with the connivance of Dick Cheney.
This notion that her poor darling son somehow wants his momma underfoot is sheer nonsense...no sane boy of the 21st century wants a old conservative harpy like Karen around!
Between the lectures at breakfast about "Robert E. Lee's leadership principles" and the daily diet of Pastor John Hagee it has to be a nightmare life for young Robert.
Hell my mother was a Stevenson democrat and in my fourteenth year I was rotten glad when she got a full time job two towns away.
That Betty Crockerism is a ritual of abasement all conservative women (no matter how powerful or autocratic) must go through.
La Famiglia Arbusto excells at this sort of silly formalism-and it will be the downfall of the modern GOP mark my words.
Meanwhile, look for the kid to "jine up"or at least sign with a decorous Texas Air National Guard unit...one with champagne brunches on Sunday and tasteful barracks.
Hey ever since the NFL's Pat Tillman bought it in Afghanistan, the heat has been on these teen Republicans to put their money where there mouth is.
:)
Well no, none of these pampered minicons have come under any pressure to join the army-who am I kidding?
But it is nice to think about nevertheless.