Posted on 05/16/2008 3:20:11 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) thinks that President Bush is "absolutely radioactive" and that any Republicans close to the him will suffer electoral consequences.
Davis, who made waves for a shockingly bleak memo about the electoral outlook for the GOP this fall, tells Bloomberg TV in an interview that will air tonight that GOP members have "got to get some separation from the president."
"Republicans, I think, have time to turn it around to some extent," Davis tells the network.
"But, if they don't, we're cruising for a bruising."
Davis is not seeking reelection.
Not sure about this. His approval ratings are still higher than Congress, and that ain’t just the dems we are talking about.
What does that make Obama? His stench will be hard to wash off!
Davis’s remarks are WAY over the top.
Congressional approval ratings don’t mean anything. It is usual to think your Congressman is OK while Congress, in general, sucks. The Presidential approval rating is directed
at Bush personally.
So, it has zero to do with the fact that House and Senate Republicans have been spending like Katrina scammers at Mardi Gras. It has nothing to do with earmarks, or rolling over on a host of issues, not the least of which is border security.
Nope, it’s George. If George goes away, the GOP gets well again.
What a coward.
Yes, who literally sucks right now.
“..If George goes away, the GOP gets well again...”
No, the GOP continues to pay.
Davis thinks the problem is the GOP doesn’t spend enough!! I don’t think his ideas will be a big help
His wife got her head handed to her last year in fact.
I hold the GOP congress in very low esteem, lower than the President. 1/2 the Republicans signed on to the pork infested farm bill that will be able to override Bush’s threatened veto. The RNC just put McCain’s globull warming nonsense on their website. It is a mess, and it ain’t all Bush’s doing.
Sorry, Davis is right. The MSM has succeeded in making Bush into a failure and a dolt. In the face of still good employment numbers, 80+% of poll respondents think the US future is bleak. Bush had a hand in formulating his current status by refusing to fight the MSM portrayal of him. Dem accusations and media muck rolled off undisputed.
To whatever extent this is true, it is not the result of Bush’s policies, but the result of his failure to compellingly defend those policies.
Obama is less patritoic than John F’n Kerry, if that is possible.
Pretty sad. I’ll bet Bush will offer to not even speak at the convention.
Just maybe if Republicans (including the president) had stayed on the offensive and talked about the successes they’ve had and played up the positives, just maybe all of them would have higher ratings now.
The truth is that the district has changed demographically as has most of Northern Virginia. Fairfax County went for Kerry, the first time that happened since 1964. A massive influx of immigrants and affluent white liberals have changed the region and will eventually change the state. VA is becoming purple.
Davis knew that he couldn't win given the demographics and decided not to run. His wife's loss reflected the change that is happening here. Given the circumstances, I can understand Davis' perspective.
Comments like this are uncalled for and Davis should be ashamed. If anyone has failed its the house and senate republicans who allowed Bush to be smeared these last two years with not even a inch of support.
They are losing because they are wimps.
Bush also pissed off plenty of conservatives pushing amnesty and calling those of us who objected nativists and xenophobes.
Davis is a useless RINO but he’s not too far off on this, but it’s due most of all to the absolutely vicious and dishonest Demagogues and MSM (not to mention all the spineless RINOs who don’t stand up for their President and for good conservative policies).
There are plenty of things to criticize GWB about (though of course I would not agree with much of what the media finds to criticize him about). But there has been a concerted, depraved effort over 7+ years to demonize him in the most absurd ways. It paused briefly for a few months after 9/11 but then this propaganda campaign of villification resumed, more outrageous than ever.
What the f@#k do I care about a guy that comments about the coming election when he himself is bailing.
Enjoy your day in the liberal media sun because you are about to be chewed and spit out.
Obviously, no Republicans will be elected to anything this fall. The Democrat/Bolshevik Party of the USSA will take over the country as the only legitimate political party in the nation. Party General Secretary Howard Vissarionovich Dean will run the apparat while figurehead President Obama will perform ceremonial duties. Commissar Kerry will be given the job of reorganizing the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. Commissar Kennedy will oversee the first 5 Year Plan to Get the USSA Moving Again. We will all be required to turn in our guns and report to the local headquarters of NOW, NARAL or NAMBLA for re-education camp.
See you at the signing, Horhay.
For me, it is transparent when many in the GOP blame everything on Bush, in hopes that the blame they deserve..... will go unnoticed.
The GOP doesn’t need frauds such as Davis.
W is completely unaware that his WOT message does not reach the masses.
He and his staff are completely incompetent with respect to Public Relations.
He coddles our enemy Saudi Arabia.
Pelosi is Speaker and Reid is Majority leader in the Senate, proof that the electorate due to Constitutional amendments 15,19,24,26 and Motor Voter have finally tilted the balance forever towards socialism.
This Presidency has been a complete disaster, the only saving grace the WOT (which his domestic enemies fight against him at home in support of our foreign enemies without repercussion).
I mean even his tax cuts will be repealed, and he nominated ridiculous people to the SCOTUS and had to retract them.
No worries for the country clubbers though , they still have their congressional pensions.
The Republic is in decline, the Founders warnings not heeded, its all downhill from here.
Don't kid yourself.
Why? because the MEDIA tells us he is?
Who says I’m kidding myself. I’ve seen it coming for years. Hence my tagline. I ain’t taking anymore. I plan to help restore the republic to its intended governance.
The whole thing looks like we are nearing or past the tipping point where the socialism clients take over.
He may be correct, but Tom Davis and the whole lamestreat coalition represent a bigger part of the problem.
He may be correct, but Tom Davis and the whole lame-street coalition represent a bigger part of the problem.
Fair weather congressman. About Bush, the thing which save him as an asset for Republicans is that he’s leaving. Ok, he’s gone January 20th. So he can now pick fights that the GOP wants picked in the general, and do so in a way that his disapproval rating won’t get in the way. Especially on the dem (pronounced ‘dumb’ in this case) of surrendering in Iraq. Sure, the US made some bad mistakes, but surrender? Bush can fight that fight without damaging the GOP, and look good doing it.
Is this the same Davis, whose wife lost her Va state Senate seat when she was campaigning with Bloomberg on gun grabbing?
He is?
Oh really?
Then he should STFU.
Hence, my opinion of Congress is lower than that of the congress. This is ridiculous.
Bush could give a press conference every day on Iraq and the media would ignore, distort, mislead, cherry pick etc. As long as the old MSM and some of the new MSM are so biased towards the Dems, Republicans will not be able to use the bully pulpit to a great effect.
Davis and his House and Senate colleges were the reason for the demise of the Republican Party. Their spend, spend , spend like a Democrat policy, lost the high ground we gained in 1994. Class of 94 term limiting themselves, left the way open for their RINO brothers to wait them out and return to the old ways.
They are losing because they are wimps.
You are so right !!!!!
Not for Tom. He makes McCain look conservative.
Think a less-charismatic version of Bill Clinton, who has but one virtue over BC: he’s far more discreet about his women. . .
All I read on this board is a list of grievances, never anything remotely constructive.
Just like the Republican Congress, a bunch of Nancys unable to battle the UnAmerican Democrat Party who have committed the most unprecedented betrayal of our President, our military and our country, with boots on the ground in two war theaters?
So is the critic now King? No need to produce?
This Davis character is everything this President is NOT, a whiner. From his memo:
"Tom Davis's brand is not Jeb Henserling’s or Joe Barton's brand. I run as a friend of federal government employees and contractors - not making government smaller, but making it work (probably tougher than just downsizing). I run as a moderate and thoughtful doer who supports the GOP on trade and taxes, but takes a more libertarian approach on gays, stem cell research, etc."
It is unseemly and embarrassing all this crying about how President Bush has just ruined everything, for all time, its the end of world, BDS at its finest.
Very true...great point.
‘.. hold the GOP congress in very low esteem, lower than the President. 1/2 the Republicans signed on to the pork infested farm bill that will be able to override Bush’s threatened veto. The RNC just put McCain’s globull warming nonsense on their website. It is a mess, and it ain’t all Bush’s doing.’
exactly. imho, which I’ve given to the RNC along with my letter saying NO MORE MONEY...the R’s lost the Congress in 2006 due to the failure of Republicans, esp the Senators, to stand up to the Dims. Stand up for what’s right for the country vs pandering to Dems or hiding so they can be ‘popular’. It’s easy to blame Bush, but, many Republicans in the Congress and the RNC are to blame for the mess we’re in.
ding, ding, ding...that’s totally the case. Bush has never been reasonably deft at handling the defense of his policy. Much of the predicament the GOP is in is a direct result of letting the leftist media totally win the PR war over the last 4 years. I think the Bush presidency will look pretty good in retrospect from the future, mainly on foreign policy, but this administration is completely absent on PR. I live in a total red state, and it’s hard to find anyone excited about ANY GOP candidates, local or national, right now.
Really?
The time to turn it around was given to them in 1994. They blew it.
I to have seen the country declining since the 1970's. It was a slow process that just recently has been speeded up quite a bit. The recent California proclamation regarding same-sex homosexual marriage is just another example of the decline. It's only a matter time until serious military challenges go unmet and America suffers a major defeat. 911 was just a foretaste of what's coming. But I'm still optimistic that enough Americans will come to their senses in time.
General approval ratings for "Congress" are always pretty low, but individual districts re-elect their own congresscritter election year after election year. Those numbers are useful for open seat elections, but the general feeling about the party of the candidate and the party's presidential nominee are more useful, since the party's presidential nominee will be at the top of the ballot in November. The GOP losses in these special elections aren't flukes.
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