Posted on 05/05/2007 9:05:46 AM PDT by new yorker 77
Shouldn’t this be on the Standard Operating Bias board??
Pray for W and Our Troops
It is the fault of the current admin and all the wussy repub congresscritters for not contesting ANY of the liberal lies and allegations which are promoted as factual news
Until someone actually gets some stones and gets into some of the MSM faces it will continue
Most of the responses here, seem to presume Bush’s low poll numbers are a result of liberals not supporting him.
IMHO, that entirely misses the point.
Bush’s approval is low because he’s abandoned so many Republican positions which his once-supporters believe strongly about, that a significant portion of what (should) be his strong base, have given up on him entirely.
Bush really has messed up, pandering so completely to illegal immigrants.
The GOP has been seriously damaged as a result.
One of the new leaders needs to step up to the plate, and start to form a new, pro-American vision for the Republican party so that former Bush supporters can get excited about the GOP again.
That’s not going to happen, with another 12 months of “comprehensive immigration reform” in the headlines through the primary season.
Bush needs. Needs. To abandon his sell-out policies to Mexico, about face and start to act like Reagan.
Not likely. But it’s the only thing which would turn things around.
And no amount of tit for tat, or spitting matches could have, or will, help.
The newsmedia is far more powerful than the President and his party. They have newspapers, mags, TV, Hollywood, music, education, the Internet, and its global now.
If they want to destroy you, your reputation, your career, your policies, they will, its a 24/7/365 policial campaign.
And a President cannot run the same campaign, logistically, financially or personally.
Only time will do the trick, for now its every man for himself.
Feminist Hillary is threatening to abandon the Iraqi women, who have been enjoying new privileges.
The remarkable progress that Iraqi women have made in less than two years can be measured by recalling their circumstances under Saddam Hussein."Iraqi women were once among the best educated and most professionally accomplished in the region," said Charlotte Ponticelli, State Department coordinator for international women's issues. "That is why it was shocking to hear from U.N. experts that, by the end of Saddam's rule, more than two-thirds of all Iraqi women were actually illiterate, and each year at least 400 of them were murdered in so-called 'honor killings' he had legalized."
Bush needs. Needs. To abandon his sell-out policies to Mexico, about face and start to act like Reagan.
REAGAN gave the illegal criminal alien invaders...
AMNESTY!!!!!
NOW, I'm signing off!
“Bush’s approval is low because he’s abandoned so many Republican positions which his once-supporters believe strongly about, that a significant portion of what (should) be his strong base, have given up on him entirely.”
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REALLY . . . I guess that’s why Rasmussen puts the President’s JA rating among Republicans at approximately 80%.
[The reason NewsWEAK pollsters were able to drive the President’s JA rating into the 20s: Republicans constituted a mere 22% of their polling sample vs 35% for Democrats — a 13 point differential . . . Additionally, NewsWeak failed to screen their ‘unaffiliateds’ for Republican/Democrat leaners — without such a screen, one can assume that ‘unaffiliateds’ actually included an OVERSAMPLE of Democrats/Democrat-leaners.]
What would have been impressive, is to read that:
“Bush popularity at an all-time low; Newsweek popularity at an all-time high.”
Instead, what is implied is the desperation of Newsweek to exploit any sensationalism they can to retain their ragtag, dwindling, dysfunctional readership.
Time and Newsweek are the new Life (Look) magazine.
Nothing like spending a Saturday afternoon watching the mainstream media crumble at unprecedented rates.
Can’t think of more deserving people, though.
Ohio was special with the GOP there and various state issues, but it wasn’t fun doing precinct work here in Northern Virginia last Fall, either.
We are experiencing an influx of folks moving from the northeast to our wealthier parishes, and an increase of illegals into the less affluent areas. That accounts for some of our switch from red to blue. BUT the bottom line is, the GOP has its work cut out for it.
Still, I would never trust any poll by Newsweek. They haven’t been anywhere near accurate for as far back as I can remember.
I’m also from an over 70% GWB county in Ohio — one of three counties (Clermont, Butler and Warren) that President Bush/Rove knew they had to win BIG in order to secure a victory in Ohio.
We came thru BIG in 2004 . . . and we came thru again in 2006 . . . And the reason we managed to get our CONTROVERSIAL representative re-elected is BECAUSE OF not for lack of voter loyalty to PRESIDENT BUSH . . . I worked side-by-side with the Maupin family (VERY strong supporters of the President) and MANY other staunch GWB supporters: NO ONE I know who supported President Bush in 2004 has turned their back on him in 2007 — actually, it’s quite the opposite . . . We support him MORE for his principled, visionary leadership despite constant attacks from the left and the FAR right!!
What are we, a bunch of Stephen Colberts? We don’t believe the poll is accruate because we don’t agree with the results of the poll Isn’t that what “truthiness” is?
Come on. George Bush is an unpopular President. That doesn’t mean his policies are wrong, or that anything he’s doing is particularly awful, just that the majority of Americans don’t support him and haven’t since Katrina.
I don’t know what (if anything) can be done about this. The people have made up their minds about Iraq and President Bush.
Still, the ‘08 candidates are very competitive against the Dems, so all is not lost by any means.
And for the record, my county (Hamilton) is purple, I just happen to live in a very Republican part of it.
I'd check back with some of those people you were standing with in Clermont County back in 2004. I spend quite a bit of time there, around the Union Township area, and while I am sure the area is still conservative, I've noticed a decided decline in pro-Bush, support-our-troops bumper stickers and magnets.
Most liberal MSM are bullies that will fold like a cheap card table when challenged. Someone has to go over the boards and “drop the gloves”
Clermont County is the home of Matt Maupin/family and the Yellow Ribbon Campaign . . . There is definitely NO decline in support for either our troops or their Commander-in-Chief . . . In fact, we just completed a VERY successful scholarship campaign in memory of Matt and others who have given their all in the WOT!!
[FYI: Bush and Blackwell — apples and oranges . . . no comparison! FYI2: During his 7th and early 8th years in office, Reagan was hard pressed to poll as well as Bush still does among Republicans, and Reagan wasn’t dealing with the plethora of tough issues that Bush has/is.]
“Come on. George Bush is an unpopular President”
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Actually, George Bush has always been a PERSONALLY POPULAR president — his LIKABILITY RATINGS have never dipped below 60% (Battleground Poll).
What’s unpopular are the plethora of challenges with which President Bush has had to contend during his presidency . . . It’s these challenges that are affecting the President’s JOB approval ratings — this same phenomenon happened with Reagan during the tough economic times early in his presidency and the Iran-Contra controversy later in his presidency.
They don’t like bad news and that is all they hear on the TV. How large a percentage of your precinct is connected to the internet?
How about all of it? I don't live on another planet!
And we even have high-speed, too!
From both the phone company and the cable company!
And, so is my town and the entire county, and I am telling you, I haven't heard anyone say Bush is doing a good job since... last summer or something.
Can't see any demographic changes close to home, either, though the same cannot be said for the rest of the county. We have had a very low turnover in this neighborhood.
I am not saying that any of these people are switching to the Demos or going lib or anything like that. Quite the opposite. They don't like Bush because he isn't delivering. Spending, immigration, gas prices, and corruption are all on people's minds.
The poll is based on...
People who are against our policies in Iraq.
People who think we didn’t use enough force in Iraq.
People who are upset with illegal aliens coming into this country.
Take an average.
48+28=76/2=38%
The Congress in not doing any better with their approval ratings.
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