Posted on 03/08/2006 8:30:19 AM PST by presidio9
Judging by the numbers, last week wasn’t a good week for George Bush. Of course, news that the administration had approved a deal to turn over the operation of six U.S. ports to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates did nothing to buoy his sagging approval ratings.
But the truly damaging revelation, from a public relations perspective, was the admission by White House press secretary Scott McClellan that the president didn’t even know about the deal until after it had appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the country. That shocked even many Republican loyalists.
The problem for President Bush is a growing perception that he simply isn’t competent. That’s the story behind the polling numbers that have declined — bad week by bad week — since February 2005 when the president’s approval rating stood at a respectable 52 percent.
The predecessor whom Bush has begun to resemble isn’t, as many liberal Democrats seem to believe, Richard Nixon. It’s Jimmy Carter.
Carter’s political demise began when the American people, including many Democrats, started to perceive him as in over his head in the Oval Office. That’s what may be happening now to Bush.
Competence is not a partisan issue. Last week’s polls found that somewhere between 34 percent and 40 percent of Americans approved of Bush’s job performance.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesmanjournal.com ...
Bush is dying the "Death From a Thousand Cuts" strategy employed by the MSN and the Democrats, helped by a wave of stupidity by some Republicans that are ready to throw Bush and their country from the life raft for personal gain. I have often heard that if you say it repeatedly and loud enough it becomes true. ( or at least believed by some of the sheeple.) This does seem to be the case.
Unless GW get's out there and fights these chicken littles in the MSM and BOTH parties, all the predicitons about his demise will certainly bear fruit.
Impeachment is a done deal if the Dims take over the House.
After the next GOP victory at the REAL polls you and your 1%ers will still be scratching your heads and wondering what happened after all the Treason Media assured you that Bush was going to sink everything.
But don't worry you won't be any MORE irrelevant after that election.
Which of these factors is more likely to cause Bush's numbers to fall:
1. The Dubai Ports Deal, widely disliked and mistrusted by people who don't really understand the issue
2. "Biased Poll Sampling"
Something would be wrong if his numbers didn't drop after #1.
Agree with you there.
geez, Carter was in over his head the second he stepped into the WH, I smell BS
You know, all those made in Brazil and made in Canada trinkets in Wal Mart are just killing us.
Bush's numbers were low before the deal was announced, thanks to #2, which has been well-documented on FR.
Enough conservatives are unhappy enough with Bush on immigration to say so if called by the polling companies. This diminishment, if even half accurate, would have to come from the right side.
Very quietly, casualty count is dropping. 0.88 per day this month so far, down from as high as 3 in October.
CBS News Admits They Ran a Bogus Bush Poll
CBS' latest attempt to manufacture numbers and poll more democrats
"The problem for President Bush is a growing perception that he simply isn’t competent. That’s the story behind the polling numbers that have declined — bad week by bad week — since February 2005 when the president’s approval rating stood at a respectable 52 percent."
LOL, when you have a news media like the Washington Compost that reports ONLY the negative and never the good that the president has accomplished, and even fabricate stories of supposed Bush bumbling like with the Katrina videos last week, then the perception of incompetence is one that's purely media-driven. They do nothing but bash the president and then write editorials about "Bush isn't competent and that's why no one likes him." But this idiotic article takes the media's bias a step further: It uses the media's slanted coverage that creates news and then tells us what to think about the news they've created.
Also, this piece of garbage from the Post relies on polls that are badly skewed with a huge over-representation of Democratic respondents to further back its contrived premise.
Finally, the idea that the president should have known about a fairly routine security clearance process for a pretty routine international transaction not even involving a US firm is a silly and ignorant assumption and purely niggling. That is minutae. The president cannot be involved in every process of the federal bureacracy. To claim that it proves he's "incomptent" is just pure straw man.
This once again goes to show how the media and the Democrats are in total lock-step in terms of their talking points. The Democrats have been using the phrase "incompetent" to describe the president for months. Oh surprise, surprise the lapdog media now picks up the same refrain!
How is it the president handled 9-11, the economy and so many other things so well until he got re-elected?? Did he start out competent and become incompetent? No, the only thing that changed was the media lost their friggin' minds when Bush was re-elected and set out to destroy him along with the rest of the drooling Bush haters. And this Compost hit piece is just another effort in that regard. Give it up losers. You're boring everyone.
The presstitutes are getting better. They didn't lie in this article until the second sentence....
And as you wrote that, the President is in New Orleans with Blanco and Nagin pledging more money to the disaster area. I think the President has made fourteen trips down there, spent a fortune, and most Americans are still saying he has not done enough to help New Orleans.
Why is he wasting his time?
the criminal MSM can rely on the polling of 1100 people- I'll hang my hat on the 116-million who voted less then 18-months ago.
If I may plagiarize Tony Snow's comments from this am to underscore the point, b___s___ stories like Katrina, civil war in Iraq and Tom Delay going down in an avalanche of GOP ethics troubles hit the front page for a week or more.
The corrections, if they ever do come (or, in the case of Delay's decisive victory) are relegated to page 8F under the used car sale ad.
At that point, the damage is done, and the drip-drip-drip begins to take hold.
The Old Media is fading, but they still have an effect, especially when they're operating at full bore anti-GOP/anti-GWB, as they have since 2000.
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