Hopes fade for Bush to turn around political fortunes, analysts say

[ECH1969]

Is the troubled Bush presidency prematurely cooked? Many prominent Republicans have reluctantly begun to embrace that conclusion.

"The country has given up on him," said GOP consultant Ed Rollins, echoing several other Republican sources, including longtime Bush confidants and party officials. "It's too late to turn it around."

Along with a robust economy and lower energy prices, every get-well scenario includes these big-ticket items:

A dramatic capture of Osama bin Laden or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would give Bush a strong boost in the polls. "He could then say with some credibility that progress is being made and paint the Democrats as the party of defeat," said Marshall Wittmann of the Democratic Leadership Council.

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/03/19/1471692.htm

[Hissyspit]

1. Well, I HOPE so... n/t

[grytpype]

2. VICTORY!

Asta la vista!

[kenny blankenship]

3. How much you want to bet they're focus grouping a terror attack?

C'mon George it'll be just like old times again! Throw a dart at the map, make a few discreet calls...

[spindrifter]

4. Now we will see him in his dual role

of Buffoon-in-Chief and Truculent-in-Chief. Hope Pickles has laid in a good supply of meds.

[RagAss]

6. He'll always be "Cretin in Chief" to me....

[MrModerate]

5. I'm convinced that immediately after they nab Bin Laden . . .

(presuming they do) . . . that we'll see a rash of easy-to-plan-and-execute hits on America (4 guys with AK-47s in a mall would be pretty easy to carry off) by Al Qaida or like-minded groups, just to prove how pointless it is to try to kill a mushroom patch by shooting at it.

For George (and anyone at the mall) a nightmare; for Al Qaida, massive street cred and a pretty good assurance that the Bush administration would do something really stupid and vicious, the end result of which would be to drive even more disaffected people into the Islamofascist ranks.

[Botany]

7. Breaking News The Edmund Fitzgerald will not take any more cargo.

[buddysmellgood]

8. It's been too damn long. If they caught Osama now, we'd have to say. What

the fuck took you so long?

[Erika]

9. Ed Rollins also said W won't listen to anyone for advice

He's got his closed tiny circle and thats it. Rollins spoke in terms of disgust.

[ECH1969]

10. The chance of catching Bin Laden or Zarqawi is probably

a good one percent over the next three years. Neither of them are in Iraq or Afghanistan. And, neither of them have much tactical value, they are just figure heads, and its easy to be a figure head because you don't have to do much, be near the battle field, or plan attacks. Bush knows alot about being a figure head.