Bush's base fading?

[ProSense]

Sixty-five percent disapprove of Bush's handling of the situation in Iraq and 29 percent approve.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060318/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticscongress_060318232332

[benburch]

1. Bush's *true* base is less than 0.1% of the population.

"The 'haves' and the 'have mores'"

[Nutmegger]

2. There will always be, as Peter Weber calls it, a "fascist third". [nt]

[stevietheman]

4. Perhaps Democrats should devise a _wedge_ to split up this...

fascist third of the electorate.

[Golden Raisin]

7. The Democrats can't

even zip up their own flies. All they do is vote for the "Patriot" Act, dilly-dally, dither and bicker among themselves. Feingold is the only one worth a damn.

[stevietheman]

8. I don't disagree with you, but that shouldn't stop us from...

offering advice (even if it's unheeded).

What I'm thinking is that wedge politics has worked so well for Republicans, then why can't Democrats do the same thing? Why can't the Democrats devise methods for splitting up the Republicans' hard 30% base?

Certainly, today's Democratic leaders seem to have a tin ear for new ideas. Perhaps newly elected Democrats in the next session of Congress will begin to make inroads with new ideas. We definitely need some new thinking and new approaches.

[Golden Raisin]

10. What REALLY worked well

for the Republicans was rigging the votes in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. Now that's a first-class "wedge". It also really "worked well" for them that they had the Supreme Court intervene in a disputed Presidential Election where the vote was split 50/50, and there were SERIOUS allegations of voter disenfranchment and vote/machine tampering/miscounting that were blatently & conveniently ignored in the rush to coronation. It's not that the Democrats are too high-minded, honest, or "taking the high road" --- they are just too incompetent to even understand the severity or get into the hardball game that Rove and others have brought us. I hope there will be lots of Democrats in the new Congress after the all-important 2006 elections but if the ballot boxes/counting are being rigged (Diebold, etal.) that may not happen. Bush was NEVER honestly elected as far as I am concerned.

[stevietheman]

12. You're definitely right...

but the elections wouldn't have been so close if the Democratic leadership took the fight to Republicans in those elections.

[BigYawn]

13. If Bush stole the elections, where are the leaks?

I just can not believe a massive conspiracy of
statewide vote rigging can be kept quiet. There
would be county election officials, programmers,
technicians, Diebold employees etc all would have
to be involved in such a vote stealing operation.

YET NOT A SINGLE LEAK OR WHISTLE BLOWING ANYWHERE
IN 5+ YEARS!!!!!!!

Sorry I don't believe in tooth fairy and Santa Clause either, anymore.

[Warpy]

6. You mean the third that is so uncomfortable with any changes in their

lives that they will cling desperately to any thief who promises to insulate them from them?

Yes, the timidly conservative will always be with us. Our job is to use them as necessary brakes on too rapid, radical change while keeping them away from things that can hurt us all, like Imperial power.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

3. Unfortunately, the remaining elements...

...of his base, Diebold, ES&S, Triad, Sequoia and of few others, still represent a significant problem for us.

[ChristianLibrul]

5. It's hard out here for a chimp...

...when the public is well-informed.

[Doctor_J]

9. HIs base were handing out voter guides at church today

The headline on the guide said "Pro-life" but a careful reading revealed that it was STRICTLY abortion-rights based. Nothing on pre-emptive war, nothing on the death penalty. So his base is still intact - the people who would vote for Satan as long as he was anti-choice.

[cassiepriam]

11. It is a disgrace that still so many support him

And that things had to get this bad to get the numbers to drop.
Doesn't say much about the character of the American people :(