Bob Novak - Worries at the White House

[realFedUp]

(yeah, howabout worries in the Novak home...)

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak29.html

Worries at the White House

September 29, 2003

BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

Anxiety about the 2004 presidential election that suddenly has grasped Republican hearts, from the White House to the grass roots, can be traced to President Bush's two important speeches on Iraq delivered over 15 days. They were both duds. His Sept. 7 speech to the nation was regarded by Republican politicians as a stylistic and substantive failure. His Sept. 22 address to the United Nations was worse, breeding discontent among his own supporters.

Until now, George W. Bush always had risen to the occasion. But failure marks current efforts of the president and his vaunted political team, headed by Karl Rove. This judgment was made to me by a well-known Republican operative experienced in two presidential campaigns: ''For the first time, there doesn't seem to be a plan.''

Last week's Gallup Poll putting Bush's approval rating at 50 percent and showing him trailing Wesley Clark and John Kerry in trial heats is dismissed by the president's managers as the dreaded third-year presidential syndrome that was overcome by Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan with fourth-year landslides. However, those poll numbers take on new meaning in light of Bush's altered 2004 outlook. Replacing the old mantra that there is no way for Bush to lose, Republicans studying the electoral map wonder whether there is any way they can win.

Dramatic deterioration in the outlook over the last two weeks is reflected in the experience by a Republican businessman in Milwaukee trying to sell $2,000 tickets for Bush's only appearance this year in Wisconsin on Oct. 3. In contrast to money flowing easily into the Bush war chest everywhere until now, he encountered stiff resistance. Well-heeled conservative businessmen offered to write a check for $100 or $200, but not $2,000. They gave one reason: Iraq.

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[The Zanti Regent]

1. Hey Novak, what about YOUR worries?

Worried that you are gonna wind up in a cell with a 300 pound muscleman for a roommate??????

[realFedUp]

2. or a 300 lb LIBERAL muscleman...

lol.

[liberalhistorian]

3. Hey, we all know that only

them there un-American, psycho "libruls" end up in jail, anyway, right? Right?

[rock]

4. Liberal in the use of Crisco?

LOL

[realFedUp]

13. I thought Crisco was Ashcroft's medium....

or blessed oil of choice.

[bryant69]

5. Why would he go to jail?

[wryter2000]

6. Jail

For exposing Ambassador Wilson's wife as a CIA agent (a felony) and refusing to reveal who in the White House gave him the information.

[bryant69]

12. Well, I would think this issue has been settled

What about Journalistic Freedom?

[MUAD_DIB]

7. Yopu forget that there are a few sets of

rules in this country for the convicted.

1) The poor: life term (death sentence considered)

2) The middle class: 5-10 years (with appeals)

3) The rich: 6 months at the Hyatt Regency ...or nearest 4-star equivalent (likely Presidential pardon to follow...after champaigne breakfast and sauna)

I doubt that Novakula will see the inside of a jail cell.

I also fear that the 300lb. muscleman will be sucked dry by the prince of darkness and placed into eternal damnation and servatude.

[Cappurr]

8. I sent the following email to Novak

You didn't help much you know.....when you revealed Admiral Wilsons' wife as a CIA operative. Apparently, she has had important contacts in WMD for years. And they are all blown. And you did that just to help the White House get revenge on Wilson for telling the truth about the Niger yellow cake.

I have rarely agreed with your politics, but I have respected you for your years of work. But now, you are just a white house whore and I have no respect for you at all. You put a womans life in danger, not to mention her contacts. And I (as well as a lot of my friends) intend to contact CNN and the Sun Times and ask that you be removed. You have obviously been working too long...with age your judgment has failed




Now friends.....start emailing CNN and the Chicago Sun Times asking for his head.

[tsipple]

9. OK, One RARE Bit of Praise for Novak Here...

Novak has and is against the neo-con principles of American imperialism. (His comments amidst the Iraq built-up were very interesting.) So let's give him a point or two for that. He also occasionally grouses about Republicans, as in this article.

I can think of many conservative columnists who are worse.

[Gman]

10. Sorry, but I like Novak

because, among other things, he doesn't have any respect for Bush. He's an old style paleo-con. Novak has at times been very gracious to the left when it was proper and fitting rather than the "go for the jugular regardless of the circumstances" approach of the neo-cons. In spite of all his wrong thinking, I think Novak is probably a nice guy with whom I disagree. I'd like to have a beer with him.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

11. He's a "nice guy" that participated in revealing the identity of a CIA...

...agent in the field. He should have known better then to have participated in such a dispicable, and illegal, act.

And reveling the name of one agent has a ripple effect...every person she ever worked with overseas is now at risk.