Mrs. Bush Loses Her Reluctance to Campaign

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Laura Bush, a reserved former librarian who only reluctantly warmed to politicking, said often and somewhat nostalgically in 2004 that her husband's re-election bid was the couple's last campaign.

So much for that idea.

The first lady is back on the hustings with gusto, deploying her sky-high popularity, practiced smile and firm defense of President Bush's agenda for Republicans nationwide. GOP strategists say sending Mrs. Bush out to help candidates running in the midterm elections is a no-brainer.

Her poll ratings swamp the president's and those of other high-profile Republicans, with three-fourths of the public holding a favorable view of her. That's down a bit from her 80 percent approval ratings over a year ago, but well above the barely more than a third who like the job her husband is doing.

Squeezed between foreign trips focused on expanding opportunities for women and more traditional first lady duties, Mrs. Bush has notched 10 political appearances so far - all fundraisers. They began with a Republican National Committee event in Los Angeles last April and continued with stops for GOP Rep. Jim Gerlach of Pennsylvania and several gubernatorial candidates later in 2005.

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[MaineDem]

1. Yuck

I hate feeling so negative all the time when it comes to this evil family but I really can't help it.

She's an enabling stepford robot. Gives me the creeps.

[Kenergy]

10. Me too!!! n/t

[NVMojo]

13. LOL! picturing Rove winding up the Laura-fembot!!!

[LSparkle]

2. Squeezing in hurling insults at HIllary C. ...

Yeah, that's really "nice" Lauraeasybake ...

[rodeodance]

15. a real lady would not have done that!

[rurallib]

3. We coulda had Tipper. We coulda had Teresa.

We got the fucking Joker. Shit!
Her popularity in my household is 0. I use her only as an example to my duaghters (28 & 26 and successful) of what a woman DOES NOT WANT TO BE!!!!!

[democrat_patriot]

7. I don't feel Tipper is any better,

Al rocks though.

[LSparkle]

9. Hey, Tipper played the drums at least ...

That starts to make up for the PMRC.

[democrat_patriot]

16. Not even close

:)

[Divernan]

34. Tipper did a much better job as a mother.

Laura's two kids are layabout party girls.

[napi21]

4. Did it ever occur to them she's popular BECAUSE she hasn't

been campaigning? Enough time out in the public and she's going to screw up. She'll either say something she's thinks is innocent but will be exploited, or people will really get to know her, and she'll turn out not to be the woman they thought she was!

[LSparkle]

11. Don't forget "Hurricane Karina" ...

I look forward to other similar "gems" once she gets out on the stump.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

5. Makes me weepy...

...NOT! What a buttkisser this article is.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. Chimpy can't hide behind Mama's skirt, so now he hides behind Laura's

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

[Mz Pip]

8. Who Cares what Laura thinks?

Trashing Hillary's housekeeping strikes me as silly.

Implication being that Hillary should be the one cleaning the whole f^cking WH by herself. UNBELIEVABLE.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[pinto]

12. On paper, probably not a bad plan from the "Spin Wing",

but it sure is hard to put a soft and fuzzy on this insane mess. My guess, it's too little too late and a hint of desperation. Nice try, though, Karen.

[NI4NI]

33. It's desperation

Undoubtedly a desperate move. She's the least of all evils. Who else is there from the White House who could campaign that's not completley covered already by incompetence or corruption? Their dog Barney can't even go because America has already seen him takin' a shit in public. : )

[Kutjara]

14. At least Margaret Thatcher's husband...

...understood that nobody had elected him to public office and had the decency to content himself quietly with golf and gin.

God preserve us from First Ladies on a mission.

[Tanuki]

17. More crass jokes about milking horses

from this nonentity, I suppose.

[NVMojo]

19. that vulgar fembot!

[Malva Zebrina]

18. OK, Mrs. first lady of war has not worked a day in her life except for

four years or so. The rest of her life she spent sponging off the Bush money. She did her duty to deserve that money, she birthed twins.

Yippee doo

What would you expect? If if were not for the GBush money she would be still a librarian.

She has all these initiatives--Afganistan women rights, helping boys in the ghettos areas and so on and so on--and she does nOTHING at all about it. What she does is pay a visit to the schools and the "boys" promotes whatever her latest photo ops cause, and within hours is making a speech at some fund raiser--in other words, we are paying for her to make money, under the guise that she is traveling on our money for her "causes" that do nothing and receive zilch funding, so she can go out to raise money for her stupid husband.

Well, if you have lived off that money for thirty five years and that is your livelihood, why not would a Stepford wife continue to want that same livlihood?

She is as manufactured as is a Barbi doll. She is on welfare. She is the embodiment of a welfare Mom. Our money going to her travels under the pretense of these "causes' while she lives off the Bush money. She is not working. she is a sponge. It is all she is capable of at this time. She is a nothing

[Dulcinea]

20. I don't get it. Why is she so popular?

She's wallpaper! She has no personality, nothing to contribute, & has no fashion sense whatsoever. Much as I disliked Nancy Reagan, at least she knew what to wear to a state dinner.

[Cha]

23. Who says she's "popular"? Corporate

media? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..

[goclark]

26. Where do they get those 80% numbers?

In order to do that they are including a lot of Democrats and I have not met a Democrat that likes that Druggie Joker!


They are really padding her numbers.

[ashling]

21. Laura Bush loses her well gaurded virginity

God! How many times have we heard about her reluctance to campaign? Seems like once its gone ...

[LiberalinNC]

22. The news will use the fact she hates politickings, yet she feels the need

to help a "friend of her husband" run for a seat. :puke:

[NVMojo]

25. ...stand by her man ...and his men ...

[rooboy]

24. Taking time out of her gang counselling schedule, no doubt. n/t

[JI7]

27. her popularity is based on the media whores

they always present her in a positive way. they never report the horrible things she does like kicking out and having a woman arrested for wanting to know why her son died in Iraq. her selfishness and coldness when it comes to other people.

Tesesa was evil for telling that guy who was an ass her to family to "shove it". but Laura is a saint for kicking out and arresting a mother of a soldier that died in a war her husband laughs at.

[Lars39]

28. Bull Hockey!

She's been campaigning with him since day one back in Texas.

[cyr330]

29. Pickles is popular?

Whatever for? What has she ever done other than spread her legs for that squatter in the WH? She can't even brag that she was a success at motherhood with those two beasts she squeezed out.

[Demeter]

30. GOP Strategists Called Laura a No-Brainer!!!!

At last, some honesty in politics!

[annabanana]

31. she'll tire of the grind... and her

natural temperment will show itself

[daleo]

32. Some people have a favorable view of her as a first lady

I.e. - a basically non-political role. Her supposed popularity will collapse as she becomes more obviously a member of Bushco.

[symbolman]

35. Shall I make the WANTED POSTER or will someone else

Photoshop it?

WANTED FOR MURDER. LAURA BUSH for committing vehicular manslaughter, killing an EX Boyfriend with her car.

THERE's the Headline and a great poster for everyone to carry whenever she SPEAKS anywhere, "LAURA, WHY did you KILL a Man with a CAR?"

That'll knock down that percentage a few notches.

Bush hiding behind his wife's SKIRTS, another act of COWARDICE once again.

[patricia92243]

36. I'll bet George is jealous of her being more popular than he is. n/t

[undeterred]

37. How much valium does it take to be Laura Bush?

[0007]

38. Which way is it! For every good man there is a women behind him

or for every good woman there is a man behind her.

I don't understand how her high poll ratings are anything but lies. What in the world has she done?