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Pump Up the Volume: Finally the "nonpolitical" White House gets wise
The Weekly Standard ^ | 12/12/05 | Fred Barnes

Posted on 12/03/2005 6:17:25 AM PST by Pokey78

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1 posted on 12/03/2005 6:17:26 AM PST by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
If Carl Rove was such a genius, this would have happened a LONG time ago.
2 posted on 12/03/2005 6:21:42 AM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: Pokey78

Republicans learn to defend themselves. Again.


3 posted on 12/03/2005 6:24:32 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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Amazing, isn't it that the "strong on defense" party can be such wimps when it comes to fighting back against the "let's get along with every murderous dictator in the world but destoy every Republican with lies and slander" style Democrats?


4 posted on 12/03/2005 6:24:43 AM PST by onevoter
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To: Pokey78
Great post. Explains a lot of what was happening. They stuck with the flawed strategy too long and now need to reverse the downward slide in public opinion.

One thing I'd like to see is a return to the Bush of immediate post 9/11...clarity. Don't praise people who undermine him and our war effort.
5 posted on 12/03/2005 6:24:59 AM PST by Patriot from Philly
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To: Carry_Okie

Rove has Baseball Fitz after him. Still is...a little distracting.


6 posted on 12/03/2005 6:26:39 AM PST by Patriot from Philly
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To: Pokey78
Bush has an instinct for letting his political opponents show their hands.

He reminds me of Nixon, the poker player.

I predict that by midterm elections 2006, Bush and the Republicans will be flying high again.....troops will be leaving Iraq and the economy will continue to boom at 4% GDP.

7 posted on 12/03/2005 6:27:28 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (m)
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All I can say is

IT IS ABOUT DAMN TIME.

8 posted on 12/03/2005 6:28:11 AM PST by Dustbunny (Main Stream Media -- Making 'Max Headroom' a reality.)
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What on earth were they thinking? The 'Rats are like AlQaeda: they view politeness and manners as weaknesses to be not only taken advantage of, but despised. People like these respect only one thing: power. Do not confuse "respect" with "like"--they are not the same.


9 posted on 12/03/2005 6:29:49 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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Perhaps all of this was a ploy by the President to draw the opposition party into taking a flaccid position.

In my mind, the Democrats/MSM now look very much like the "Sunni rejectionists" President Bush referred to in his Annapolis Speech.
10 posted on 12/03/2005 6:31:12 AM PST by Fielding ( "OTHERS HAVE DIED FOR MY FREEDOM. NOW THIS IS MY MARK." "Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr")
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The number one thing the President needs to learn from this and folks like Limbaugh have been saying for eons. If you make nicey nicey with Democrats, they never reciprocate, they attack. So move forward. Defend your position Mr. President and the American people will follow. It is that simple.


11 posted on 12/03/2005 6:31:18 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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Dumbest political strategy ever.

What the Hell were they thinking?

12 posted on 12/03/2005 6:32:32 AM PST by SIDENET ("IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!")
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To: Dustbunny

"The strategic decision was to be forward-looking. The public was more interested in the future and not the past, since it was just hashed over during the election." The president didn't ignore the subject of Iraq entirely. He delivered a half-dozen speeches on Iraq and the war on terror, including an evening, prime-time address, in the first 10 months of 2005. He just didn't rebut partisan attacks".


What wimps the GOP are! They are so pathetic, nerdy, sad, its embarassing. They are more afraid of the RATS than the terrorists.

This article ingored the 900lb gorilla. Guess? It starts with an "I" and ends in an "N"


13 posted on 12/03/2005 6:33:07 AM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton)
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The nonpolitical strategy was a failure. Democrats picked up on none of his overtures.

Oh, yes they did. Each and every one.

They simply rejected them.

Is GWB getting "go along to get along" advice from GHWB II?

14 posted on 12/03/2005 6:33:24 AM PST by angkor
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN

I think we are on the same page.


15 posted on 12/03/2005 6:34:54 AM PST by Fielding ( "OTHERS HAVE DIED FOR MY FREEDOM. NOW THIS IS MY MARK." "Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr")
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I thought this white house does not do "ploys"??? Whatever their stupidity, their idiotic plan was a "miserable failure"
and a joke.

As soon as GWB relaunched his shamnesty plan in February of this year, he was done and lame duck. He has no one to blame but himself.


16 posted on 12/03/2005 6:36:58 AM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton)
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In my mind, the Democrats/MSM now look very much like the "Sunni rejectionists" President Bush referred to in his Annapolis Speech.

Brilliant comparison.....

Yes!!

We are definitely on the same page.

17 posted on 12/03/2005 6:40:19 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (m)
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To: SIDENET
What the Hell were they thinking?

It runs in the family.

GHWB somehow managed to lose to Clinton despite winning the Cold War and Iraq I.

He raised taxes to appease the leftists and they turned around and used it against him.

The fact that Democrats are perverted baby killing socialist un American crooks is not something that has been recently dsicovered.

The only thing irresponsible is the White House PR department.

It could start correcting its absurd performance by accusing Kerry by name of giving comfort to and emboldening our enemy.

Then they could demand the identities of the 8 red bastards that supplied miltary secrets on pscyh ops to the LA Times (U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press) and jail the reporters if they don't comply.

Make the leftist press as much an enemy in the minds of the public as the ragheads.

They won't.

The PR war will be won, but not by this group.

18 posted on 12/03/2005 6:42:35 AM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: chris1
Methinks a politician who doesn't do ploys is not a politician at all. That is not to say that I understand or trust politicians.
19 posted on 12/03/2005 6:43:09 AM PST by Fielding ( "OTHERS HAVE DIED FOR MY FREEDOM. NOW THIS IS MY MARK." "Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr")
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This is an interesting explanation for why the president let support for the war fall so dangerously and sadly low. Rove must have been more distracted that we thought because we haven't seen many mistakes like this one made by the administration.


20 posted on 12/03/2005 6:43:40 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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