You can safely write off any self-styled conservative columnist who labled the last State of the Union address a “home run”. As Robert Novak, no lef-liberal ideologue, writes: These setbacks for Bush followed the most ineffective State of the Union address in recent years by a president whose previous efforts were able to utilize that event. He submitted to the bureaucratic methods that turned the speech into a laundry list. His staff permitted the former baseball team owner to further clutter the speech with an irrelevant discourse about players using steroids.
“The most ineffective State of the Union address in recent years”. Considering that this includes annual performances by Bill “Midnight Basketball” Clinton, it’s an impressive achievement. Those columnists who fear to write the truth about their own side should keep in mind that whether they do or not, someone will.