Why's the spin cycle in off-the-meds overdrive to protect a lame duck?

[blondeatlast]

It's clear right here in GD/P.

Wacked out theories that were debunked over the weekend and even before that are all over this place like the mold at the New Orleans Public Library.

What has he got to offer the Rs now? I would think that they'd be running away from him in anticipation of 2006.

Why are they in full-scale, off-the-meds protection mode?

Any guesses? I see this as a lose/lose scenario for the R's in '06, myself.

[Canuckistanian]

1. This is gonna stick to them...

Like ugly to an ape....

[NoQuarter]

5. Why are you insulting apes? eom

[Occulus]

2. Did you ever think maybe he intends to not leave office? n/t

[peaches2003]

6. Of course

I don't think the Bushes are able to give up power and he is learning how to use the military and a disaster to see to it there will not be a 2008 election.

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Didn't he try

to not have one in 2004? I remember reading how Bush tried to stop the elections in 2004. Of course they stole it again so that doesn't really matter now. *sigh*

[fooj]

3. I fear that unless we DO something about this grievous betrayal...

we have only seen the beginning.

Peace.

[wysi]

4. He either intends not to leave office...

... or they shall be appointing another member of the BFEE to the office when he's finished. What is paramount to them is that there is no one in place who will pursue indictments against the whole criminal cabal.

[Mz Pip]

7. Because ANY backing away

would be an admission of incompetence. Guilt by association. So circle the wagons and all that crap. United they believe they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of the American voter.

Sorry to say they may be right.

I have absolutely NO faith in the voters. ANYONE would can continue to support this incompetent bunch of ideologues is just plain dim. They don't give a fuck if the infrastructure of our nation is collapsing as long as gay don't get any rights and the fertilized eggs have more power than the women that carry them. That's their agenda. They will stand behind anyone who furthers that agenda no matter how much they damage the country otherwise.

Pathetic.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[blondeatlast]

11. I understand your thinking, Lord knows I keep thinking they'll wise up.

But he's pissing off the centriat voters and the fundie base isn't really enough to save him if they go to the Left.

That's the puzzling part for me--it seems like a HORRIBLE long term strategy.

On the other hand, I think you may very well be right, sadly.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. "it seems like a HORRIBLE long term strategy"

It isn't so much a long term strategy as it is immediate damage control. To appear opposed now may be seen as bad form by 'the base'.

BUt in the larger sense, I'm with you ... why in hell are they standing by this clearly incompetent and out of touch fuckwad?

[OregonBlue]

8. Their whole horrible agenda is at stake.

[Burried News]

17. Exactly right - if they lose big in the next two elections, everything

they put in place will be overturned. Also, if the mood is right when Fitzgerald reports out his findings then they need every friend they can get or they are looking at long prison terms.

They are fighting to the death because they have to. The slippery slope can take them to accusations of Treason and they know it.

[Nite Owl]

9. They approved of everything

he wanted. Have they ever said no to him? Congress has completely abdicated their duty and they are just as much to blame as he is now.

[lancdem]

10. They're trying to save Bush

because if he goes down the Repuke Party will suffer, too.

[FreedomAngel82]

16. More than likely

and anybody who goes against Bush won't get the nomination in 2008 and won't have Bush's support and him campaigning for them. The republicans don't want to lose control over the government since they've been waiting for this for thirty something years.

[TheDonkey]

12. Bush and his allies are the party. w/o them republicans would dissolve

into chaos and acromony.

[newscott]

15. That's it in a nutshell.

Ever since his daddy hijacked the party out from under Reagan, the Bushes have been running it.

Now they're in deep doo doo.

[FreedomAngel82]

18. I think kinda Karl Rove did that

He turned Reagan into a republican from a moderate/centrist democrat and then the GOP officials wanted Poppy Bush as his VP. It's well known that the Bush's and Reagans hate each other.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. I really don't know myself

:shrug: I guess they'll get booted out of the party?

[librechik]

20. the Republican party is so talentless they all hope to ride in on Bushie's

coat tails.

So they have to keep his reputation intact. Look what happened to Gore after Clinton was discredited.

[Gyre]

21. When they steal the next general election

They want the chimp's successor to be close enough that there's plausible deniability to the charge that the election was stolen AGAIN. Based on 2004, the GOP knows that Americans won't question the outcome if there's a "fig leaf", no matter how tiny and implausible, to cover the truth that our democracy is dead.

Gyre

[Murdock]

22. I'm suprised...

That anyone would expect any differently. Of course the media is going to protect Bush, they've done it for years now.

Republicans arn't running from Bush.. they're running toward him, realizing the fact that a large part of the United States population views him as a Messiah figure. Sad, but true.

[Wordie]

23. 1. 2006; 2. His legacy; 3. face n/t