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Originally Posted by Julie Steiner
. . . the Prime Directive of the modern Republican Party, which is "Never, Ever Apologize or Admit Fault for Anything."
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Yes, back in the Bush days, I wanted a bumper sticker to read, "Being a Neocon Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry." This was after publications like
The Weekly Standard positively ridiculed anyone who thought the Iraq War was a big mistake . . . until (whoops) TWS did too.
A close relation of never having to say you're sorry is the good old-fashioned Freudian defense mechanisms of denial and displacement, as in
this episode of McConnell and Graham playing Wheel of Misfortune.