Salon.com Politics | The devil inside Jenna and George

Lefties of a certain age, like me, still presume, in the face of massive evidence to the contrary, that a conservative who has messed around with mind-altering substances is somehow cooler, less straight, less, well, right-wing, than a conservative who hasn’t … Once you realize that — and just how profoundly formulaic, unenlightening and yes, conservative, Bush’s “young and irresponsible” days were — those impulses to welcome him into the brotherhood of roach-clip-handlers seem pretty idiotic.