Bush's Problems Has GOP Worried

[ClarkUSA]

As funny as this may sound, President Bush misses John Kerry. In the 2004
campaign, Bush sought to make the election a referendum on the Democratic
senator's character and leadership skills rather than his own record as
president. Now that he has nobody to run against, every day is a referendum on
Bush. And it's taking a toll.

Bush's approval ratings are among the lowest of his presidency. Voters are
growing increasingly uneasy over the war in Iraq and the economy. His signature
domestic issue, Social Security reform, was received coolly by Congress and the
public. Some Republicans are raising the prospect that Bush could cost them
control of Congress.

What happened in seven months? One explanation is that he lost his punching bag, a political rival who, once pummeled, helped make Bush look good by
comparison.

On Election Day, a majority of voters were concerned about the war in Iraq and
the economy. But the president and his bare-knuckles political team with some
help from Kerry convinced enough voters that the Democrat was an indecisive,
flip-flopper who might do more harm than good. Voters might not agree with his
policies, Bush said, but at least they knew where he stood.

Now, with nobody else to blame, Bush stands alone. He can't deflect voter
concerns about the economy and other pressing domestic matters. With the death toll in Iraq pushed above 1,700, more than double the number of a year ago, it's no longer a choice between Bush and Kerry.

It's Bush's war. Period.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5076834,00.html

[proud patriot]

1. Excellent

:D

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. I agree. Also, I think Dean hit the nail on the head

Investigate Memogate



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[Imagevision]

16. I hope Dean never let's up

[kster]

2. And the silence

of the Dem's after Nov 2, 04. Gave * and the media, absolutely no cover for their own silliness.

[eaprez]

3. They must have missed his speech last night....

...where he blamed the Democrats for everything.

[Goldeneye]

13. It's mentioned further into the article.

They say he's looking for a new punching bag...democrats in congress.

[blm]

4. Bush couldn't have done it without the media covering up for him 24/7.

They lied to the American people. NOONE knew where Bush stood on anything. NOONE.

The fundies didn't know that Bush was FOR civil unions for gays.

Fundies didn't know that Bush doesn't want abortion to be illegal. His mother, wife and daughters are all prochoice, and every Bush is....they only PLAY at being antiabortion for the activism of the prolife political movement.

Most Republicans BELIEVED Bush was being honest about his motives. The media didn't examine his mountains of lies.

The people had no idea that Bush purposefully refused to read HartRudman Report on Global Terror that was handed to him on Jan 30, 2001. The media never bothered with that major bit of criminal ncompetence and DANGEROUS STUPIDITY.

Imagine we had a media who told the truth instead of one that covered Bush's ass endlessly for 6 years.

When will the media point at themselves for allowing this arrogant, imperialist moron to go unexposed and unpunished?

[laugle]

5. That just about sums it up in simple terms, recommended

[oscar111]

6. "punching-bag Kerry" not possi without media control: AAR now ending that

control too.

Focusing on Kerry back then always was strange. No evenhanded campaign coverage would have allowed such odd tarring of Kerry's record.

Now, the arena is dfferent. AAR is here and growing.

Credit the sinking of poll numbers to more voters hearing our side.

get a free YahooGroups forum going for your town's AAR suporters. Meet them and lobby for an AAR station in your town.

ask aflcio and DNC to give grants to AAR to spread to new stations.
Both of these retarded groups should have set up an AAR in 1920. A movement with NO VOICE is a crippled movement. Both groups watched Hate Radio grow for 2O years and did not build an answer to it.

AAR is our only "push media". Pull media like DU and the blogs are fine, but will not reach the millions of voters who are too lazy and too uncommitted to tap us up on a keyboard.

AAR is the lifeblood of the dems today.

[Clark2008]

12. There is no AAR in my town of 350,000 people

When is it coming?

[ClarkUSA]

7. I think there's a bug in the software - the OP looks lopsided

Elad, are you there?

[AAARRRGGGHHH]

8. I was thinking of this today

This might be extremely crazy, and please tell me if I am making no sense but ...

Is it maybe a good thing that * stole the election? If Kerry would've been elected (assuming he hadn't already set a course to get us out of Iraq, which would be near impossible in 5 months), presumably things would be going just as bad over there. The economy would still be in the john, and while he would obviously be working overtime to repair our reputation around the world, we would still be seen as the World's A-holes. You would have to assume that the Repugs and their 37 channel propaganda machine would be working overtime to blame him for all of these things, right?

Also, if (God forbid) there was another terrorist attack (and I think it's tough to argue that it's an 'if' instead of a 'when'), clearly the Pukes would stop at nothing to pin 100% of the blame on his chest (next to the Silver Star he got for actually SERVING his country). So, in terms of the bigger picture, we'd get 4 years of Kerry followed by 8 more years of Jeb.

Is this crazy, naive and stupid? I think that the whole thing HAS to blow up in Bush's face for us to have any kind of chance at staying power.

p.s. Sorry if this is a hijack - I'll be glad to delete it if it is :)

[gordianot]

15. I have heard this more than once before the election. Good point.

Hind sight does sometimes put things in focus.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Don't you love karma?

It's so great to watch. :popcorn:

[tuvor]

11. What, he's not blaming Clinton? n/t

[dxstone]

14. Ol' Leatherface needs some new brush to cut...