NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- President Bush faced rising criticism from political opponents Thursday as he prepared to address the 2004 GOP national convention.
One critic, noted author and New York University Professor of Media Studies Mark Crispin Miller, Thursday called the Bush administration a "regime that is not conservative, but represents a radical subversive movement."
Miller, the author of the just-published "Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order," said the administration is ultimately driven by "irrational" motives.
"What ultimately drives them is irrational," Miller said, "They're neo-Calvinists, quite clearly working toward the imposition of theocracy on the United States, and then on the whole world," adding that under the current administration, U.S. mainstream political traditions are being junked.
Republicans were quick to dismiss Miller's observations as reflecting an understanding of democracy different from most people's. "That's just a bizarre analogy," GOP pollster David Winston said.
