Begala: Bush should still get the blame, because he’s ‘political herpes’

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Paul Begala, former aide to President Bill Clinton, argued that George W. Bush should continue to receive the blame for national problems because he is “political herpes.”

“Bush is sort of political herpes,” Begala told The Huffington Post. “He is just going to erupt from time to time and just at the most inopportune moments. It’s not that he will push himself on to the stage, I think he has rightly slunk away, but the virus still exists in the body.”

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