Posted on 05/12/2006 2:11:31 PM PDT by Pharmer
Do you ever feel like your in an alternative reality? These days I do! Some things do not make sense!
How can we be in the middle of a time where we are actively pursuing an enemy who has been a thorn in America’s side for nearly 30 years (since the overthrow of the Shah of Iran) and winning the fight to boot, and yet we are told that America has lost it’s stomach for a fight? If the war sucks so bad, where are the soldiers coming home with tales of horror and woe? Where are the cargo planes of our dead soldiers massacred by those ferocious freedom fighting insurgents? My parents told me and I remember wars of much greater horror. My aunt lost 2 fiancés during WWII, one in the Pacific and one in Holland. My uncle was maimed at Normandy. I lost a good friend in Vietnam. I do not know anyone who has been killed or wounded in Iraq and I know 5 people who are over there now. Not that I don’t feel for those who have loved ones who were killed or injured, but we have suffered a lot worse and persevered on. Yet the polls say we should cut and run and by no means goad that little madman in Iran! We must do nothing to stop him from getting nukes!
How can the stock market be at record highs, consumer confidence is up, unemployment is low, inflation is almost non-existent except at the gas pump, GPD is up and yet we are told that the economy sucks according to the media polls? How can this be? Well for what its worth I think it is all BS. If the economy sucks so badly why are Americans spending their hard earned money like drunken sailors? After all a robust economy is a sure sign that America is quite content. Content enough to invest our money in the stockmarket, to buy the XBox 360 sight unseen! Fed saw fit to raise interest rates to cool things off. These are not signs of a malcontented populace! Yet the polls tell us that things suck and America is on the wrong track.
Are all the polls wrong or is there genuine malcontent here at home? Are we being lied to by a liberal media seething with rage at the fact that Bush is in the White house and their lies have taken hold in our collective perception? Well yes an no.
First of all I really think it is too simplistic to directly correlate Bush’s poll numbers to gas prices. I don’t really think any one single issue has produced these types of results to a survey. First of all a poll is like a scientific experiment. The results often reflect the kind of question asked. It is up to the designer to determine whether the answer is positive or negative. As the commissioners of the poll determine the wording of the poll, seeking a desired result is not hard. But still are these fools such grand illusioners that we all are snowed? Well it’s not just them.
Remember I said I don’t know anyone who has died in Iraq? Well we all know someone who hates Bush…viscerally. We could be sitting at the lunch table having a pleasant conversation about baseball.
“Hey Joe, who are the Phillies playing tonight?” “Texas Rangers”
And then at the other end of the table, HE starts and goes on and on and on! He can’t shut up! And he is a real bummer! And then he gets in all of our face and says “Doesn’t this really bother you!!?? Don’t tell me this doesn’t bother you!!!!!!!!” This guy will only be satisfied if Bush is drawn and quartered! To hell with impeachment, perp walk him out if the White House in an orange jump suit! Oh and lets not forget Cheney!!!! HALIBURTON!!!! We can’t even use the cell phone!! We can’t go to the bathroom without Bush finding out! At any other time we would tell this guy to take off his tin hat and find a girlfriend. But we haven’t. And this vitriol while not affecting our daily activities has made us second guess our votes. Our natural instincts as in all things is to jump on the band wagon or on this case to pile on in order to avoid a fight.
We aren’t helping, and we are getting almost as mad as these liberal nutcases.
“Secure the border!” Right on I say!!
“Throw out the wetbacks! Especially the Mexicans!!!” I totally agree. Words mean things and “illegal” means “its agin the law ya moron!”
“Stop the spending!” Even if we need to rebuild the military? Even if we are to rebuild after a natural disaster as required by law? Oh I forgot the hurricanes Those were Bush’s fault too!
“Prescription drugs for Medicare??” Forget that we might have split the AARP voting block and deprived the Dems of an issue that they would have done nothing on even given the opportunity because they are more about bitching and moaning than actually fixing or even attempting to fix a problem. Not to mention the spineless reaction by Bush’s Republican collegues in Congress who hung him out to dry on Social Security reform, an issue he ran on!
And lets not forget Harriet Miers! Oh NOOOO!!! Oh I forgot… she withdrew and we got Sam Alito… You guys got to let this stuff go!!
But at some point one needs to get a breath and ask, What would John Kerry do? So Its time to get off the pig pile and start asking am your are still a Republican our am I a spineless independent moderate middle of the roader? If you are spineless independent moderate middle of the roader, look out cause the Dems are going to run you over!
Did we vote right? Your damn right we did and I for one am proud to be in the 29th percentile! But I don’t believe that 29% number. I don’t think Americans are that stupid. I just think that given a stupid question a stupid answer follows. If America thought things were that bad don’t you thing that it would have some reflection in reality?
The DeMedia needs those poll #'s down to keep the Prez from being an asset to Congressional races. They claimed 15% positive for Kerry with manipulation of the news.
And Kerry had no positives of his own.
W. on the other hand, has plenty of miscues to exploit so their manipulation probably gets them 30% to their favor.
Who did you blame YOUR crash on????
Americans today are far softer than a few generations ago.
We are weaklings, and it will show.
1) Illegals and Open Borders
2) Gas prices due to lack of drilling and refineries
3) Iraq War being fought with too much PC
Just how did W knock you off the bike without you seeing him? It must be his fault somehow.
Or use it on the border to scream at the illegals
NO amnesty so go back home.....;)
4) Spending
(forgot to add that one)
Right now we can post all we want about poll numbers, how W dropped the ball in some areas, etc...yada, yada, yada, BUT what he needs more than anything right now is for his fellow Christian family to earnestly pray for him. It's alarming how the mediaHARLOTS are out to destroy this man...AT ALL COST! We need to surround him with prayer and fasting...HE MOST DESPARATELY NEEDS THAT RIGHT NOW. The hordes of hell are out to destroy and kill if possible this man...BUT GREATER IS HE WHO'S IN US THAN HE WHO IS IN THE WORLD! I feel badly for him...God be with him! Can you imagine being in his shoes right now...the hatred he feels coming at him from every direction, and having to watch your back 24/7! I pray that everything the demonRATS and their hordes mean for rottenness, God will turn it around for good! W will be asserted as one of the GREATEST presidents...I am depending on it, for God has spoken it!
Bush's poll numbers are in the tank because conservatives are pissed with him. He was never going to get the Dems to be happy with him except in the immediate aftermath of 911. He used to have positive ratings from more than 80% of conservatives. Now its a little over 50%. It's not only gas prices, its the port deal, amnesty for illegals, lack of border enforcement, spending like a drunken sailor, lack of vetos, wasting months on Social Security reform only to walk away from it without a vote (kind of like Dems and their healthcare debacle). Then there was Bush flying over New Orleans after taking an extended Summer vacation and thanking Brownie for his good job on Katrina. And most of all, Bush's total inarticulateness and lack of even trying to fight for what is important.
4) Spending
(forgot to add that one)
No I didn't!!!
I forgot it
So get over it and be a Republican again. If you think things are bad now, think about either president Pelosi or the Hildabeast. Both are possible if you just sit on you a$$ and gripe.
Well said
The polls are taken daily to scare Republican politicians and to erode their support of Bush's agenda. That's it. Of course the polls are false, but the only ones who ever really pay attention to polls are the politicians anyway.
You are right. Most American's live in the real world and are smarter than pollsters try to make us all out to be. The pollsters are all just another arm of the MSM, and they exhibit the same contempt for the average American that many politicians do.
Pollsters are playing to the cowardace of the common politician with an eye to derailing the Bush agenda.
The poll numbers are laregly not about the war. For the liberal 30%, that's the biggest issue. For the rest of us, it's the open borders and wastrel spending. That's the thing about Jorge- he gives everybody a reason to dislike his administration.
Ding! Ding! Ding! we have a winner!!
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