The Neo-cons begin to eat their own

This is shaping up to be a pretty good weekend before the election, for the Democratic Party. With Tuesday’s mid term election drawing closer, the Republican Party faithful are having a wee bit of trouble keeping the faith all of a sudden.

Democrats can add one more name to the list of high profile Republicans to jump off the wagon and run for their own corner of the party, that of Richard Perle. He was the architect of the Bush administrations early days of the neo cons and the primary strategist regarding the Iraq operations. And he's apparently terribly disappointed at how it is all coming apart.

Perle has chosen Vanity Fair magazine as his instrument of choice, to explain how things went so off the rails once he left the employ of the President. Perle does his best Monday morning quarterbacking to suggest that the President was negligent over the handling of his staff and the “disloyalty” of some to the cause. He points his neo-con finger in the direction of the current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who at the time of Perle’s involvement with the President, was in charge of National Security and apparently didn’t quite measure up to Perle’s standards.

The Vanity Fair article also quotes Kenneth Adelman and David Frum among others, all the high profile neo-cons from the early days, who are terribly disappointed that the chance to “use power for good” has seemed to have failed in its mission.

For the Democrats this must be like manna from heaven, they managed to get through October without the much vaunted Karl Rove October surprise and now the Republican’s are engaged in a nasty game of point the finger. All it seems now that the Democrats need to do is to keep John Kerry away from a microphone for three more days and they may find that the results of the mid term election will be to their liking.

It’s never a pretty sight when the wheels fall off, and judging by the flood of stories coming out about the Republican agenda of late there seems to be a serious change of momentum happening in the States. The proof will be in the results of Tuesday, which could see both the House and the Senate fall into the hands of the Democrats.

With the Republicans all seemingly running off to write books or be quoted in less than flattering magazine articles, there may not be many left to help out in the final two years of the administration. Bob Woodward's most recent book; State of Denial, painted a picture of an Administration in disarray and judging by what's going on at the moment it seems to be pretty close to the heart of the matter.

The last two years of a Presidents term are generally dedicated to that most American phase of the political process, the legacy building. With the President finding detractors of his policies on both the left and now the formerly solid right and the nation so polarized that there is no middle, his legacy days may prove to be very, very challenging and apparently rather lonely ones.

As they say, Success has many fathers; defeat however, makes you an orphan!