When Smirk approval drops to single digits, will dems then grow spines.

[European Socialist]

Or, does he have to leave office first-so it's safe to come out from under the bed.

[rabid_nerd]

1. Come out of your cave

US dems have spines... it's those who refuse to call themselves Democrats who don't have one...

[European Socialist]

7. some have spines....

But right now he should be getting the crap kicked out him by hundreds of Democrats-like the GOP did to Carter in 1980.

[TwilightZone]

2. 30% of the public would vote for Bush if he killed babies on live TV.

There's too much lockstep in the Republican party to expect him to get significantly lower than he is now. He's scraping the bottom as it is.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. A Touch Too High

But, you're right. There is a rabid right wing base that will vote repub if Christ was the Democrat, and Satan was the Repub running mate.

But, the base is smaller than 30%. The radical right is about i/16th of eligible voters.

The Professor

[Kelvin Mace]

10. 98% of elected Republicans on the House and Senate

would stand by him.

John McCain would give him a hug.

[TwilightZone]

13. And Lieberman would give him a kiss.

That was a bit weird.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. That, As They Say, Is A Whole 'Nother Thing!

Actually, i doubt most elected reps care what he has to say either. They just keep pandering to the same base, but i really doubt the Senators believe Billy knows what he's talking about.
The Professor

[TwilightZone]

11. If it's high, I don't think it's high by much.

Too high? Maybe. But, I think we'd be surprised at what's really out there.

It's not just the radical right, and the Republican die-hard base and the Bush base aren't necessarily the same thing. Bush's support inexplicably extends much further than the "Christian" right or Rush and his fanatics.

While I realize that Nebraska is a bad example, local polls here show his support STILL in the mid 60s, even now. Obviously, they can't all be far-right extremists.

A lot of people here voted for Bush because of his false bravado and faked Texas persona (which they didn't see through, of course). They still believe in that false front, defend his actions incessantly, and don't seem likely to bail on him, regardless of what he does.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Not only that, they would come up with excuses about

why the babies deserved it. :crazy:

Don't laugh. That's what happened after the My Lai massacre. The gung ho types said that it was okay to slaughter Vietnamese children because they would just grow up to be Communists anyway.

[TwilightZone]

15. The scary thing is that some people STILL believe that crap, and it's been

30 years! Long-held misconceptions are a common theme with the Republican smear machine.

Even today, the right tries to smear people by calling them Communists or saying that they're supported by the Communist Party. Obviously, they're trying to tap a vein of long-held BS.

Happened to Kerry in '04, and I think it happened to Cindy Sheehan this week.

[Dhalgren]

5. I agree. Bush is almost as low as he can go - he's nearly down

to his "base". But as far as "the Dems growing a spine" thing, the Democrats in office are not afraid of Bush (so much) as they are afraid of their bankers...

[Canuckistanian]

6. Lieberman would still have his back

While simultaneously criticizing the radicals in the Democratic party.
:banghead:

[greekspeak]

8. If having a backbone was politically advantageous, they would grow one

So many congresspersons seem to labor under the misconception that the Political Center in 2005 is somehow a neutral place. Their republican masters have convinced them of this, when in reality the center is far right of what the center was even a generation ago.

[Kelvin Mace]

9. No.

They must be replaced. They are congenitaol cowards.

[jrthin]

12. Then, I'll really have

no respect for them. Kicking a dead horse is easy.

[gasperc]

16. not for thier kind of people