Bush-shy Republicans warned of 2006 losses

[TexasLawyer]

Republicans-- no more intra-party dissent! Don't diss Bush or you will lose!


Bush-shy Republicans warned of 2006 losses

By Ralph Z. Hallow
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
March 3, 2006

Republicans who run away from President Bush will only help Democrats win control of Congress in November, top Republican pollster and strategist Ed Goeas said yesterday. Republicans would be making the same mistake as Democrats in 1994, when they ran from President Clinton, worsening the anti-incumbent atmosphere and resulting in Democrats losing both the House and the Senate.

Mr. Goeas based his conclusions on results of the bipartisan George Washington University Battleground 2006 Poll released at the National Press Club. Democratic pollster and top strategist Celinda Lake said, "Republicans will not benefit from any presidential coattails. In fact, many Republicans are distancing themselves from Bush."

She noted that although 86 percent of Republicans rate Mr. Bush positively, only 67 percent of conservatives do so. She said her party can help itself by "nationalizing the upcoming elections" -- making them a referendum on Mr. Bush and Republican "stewardship of the nation and by using 'change' as a wedge issue." (!!!!???!!!):crazy::crazy::crazy:

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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060302-112917-5821r.htm

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. ROFL!!!! 86% of Republicans rate Mr. Bush positively

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

They might want to check their membership rolls. Republicans have been denouncing their membership to the party.

[KingFlorez]

2. Damned if they do, damned if they don't

That's the way I see it, they lose if they appear with him or if they distance them selves.

[wryter2000]

3. And let me add

:silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly:

[opihimoimoi]

4. OH MY, Whadda Ya Do????? Dammn if ya do and Damn if Ya Don't

The Poor Pubs...in a quandry, in a Lurch, Up a Creek, etc

All they did was follow and look what they got...a Prez they gatta dump but lack the Instructions.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Oh how funny

You're damned either way. Hey nobody ever said karma was always nice.

[European Socialist]

6. The Repukes only hope is that the Dems "prevent defense"-- prevents...

the Dems from winning--which happens in the NFL quite a lot.

[rudy23]

13. I'm glad someone else is saying this

I've been saying this for YEARS, but no one gets it. The Dems are in a prevent defense-there's no better way to put it.

The Repubs are blitzing on every play, and running reverses on offense, but the Dems still can't figure out how to stop them.

I really do think the Repubs benefit from their understanding of team sports, which is why they're good at winning elections, but not much else. When you think of it, that's what politics is. It's a sport, or a game, because it's a human construction, with human rules.

[RufusEarl]

7. Perhaps they (Repugs) should think of the country, over party!

It's good advice for all politicians, most people are thinking country before party these days.

[Roy]

14. Nahhhh.....

That only works if you give a damn about the country.
With these guys money is the ONLY god.

[Deep13]

8. Mr. 34% approval is the key to reelection! nt

[FSogol]

9. Rove's house of cards is falling down. n/t

[Lexingtonian]

10. Fine with me!

The more that want to go down with the ship, the better, I say.

We'll just load up more torpedos.

[Pirate Smile]

11. That is a DEMOCRAT saying HER party benefits by nationalizing

the upcoming elections and making them a referendum on Bush. She is saying that is what the Democrats need to run on to win.

"Democratic pollster and top strategist Celinda Lake said, "Republicans will not benefit from any presidential coattails. In fact, many Republicans are distancing themselves from Bush."

She noted that although 86 percent of Republicans rate Mr. Bush positively, only 67 percent of conservatives do so.

She said her party can help itself by "nationalizing the upcoming elections" -- making them a referendum on Mr. Bush and Republican "stewardship of the nation and by using 'change' as a wedge issue." '


The Republican pollster says to not run from Bush because it increases the anti-incumbent feelings, which is what Dems did in 1994.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

12. This is great advice, Repubs...please attach yourselves to W

:evilgrin:

[TexasLawyer]

15. GOP growing increasingly angry, frightened by Bush's missteps

Articles like this shed light on the mop-up operation that the Washington Times is, at the top of this thread, reporting on (and thereby assisting with).

A sign of desperation? One can only hope!


Thu, Mar. 02, 2006
GOP growing increasingly angry, frightened by Bush's missteps
BY STEVEN THOMMA AND JAMES KUHNHENN
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - President Bush, once the seemingly invincible vanguard of a new Republican majority, could be endangering his party's hold on power as the GOP heads into this year's midterm congressional elections.

A series of political missteps has raised questions about the Bush administration's candor, competence and credibility and left the White House off-balance, off-message and unable to command either the nation's policy agenda or its politics the way the president did during his first term.

This week, newly released video of Bush listening passively to warnings about the dire threat posed by Hurricane Katrina and a report that intelligence analysts warned for more than two years that the insurgency in Iraq could swell into a civil war provided fresh fodder for charges that the president ignores unwelcome alarms.

His attacks on those who questioned his administration's approval of a seaports deal with the United Arab Emirates and his ill-fated nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court have angered some conservatives and Republican members of Congress. And even some Bush supporters remain anxious about the economy, the federal deficit, the war in Iraq and the extent of the administration's warrantless wiretapping.


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