(U.S. Rep.) Davis Calls Bush "Radioactive"

Political Wire ^ | May 16, 2008

[Clintonfatigued]

In an interview to air later tonight on Bloomberg TV, Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) said President Bush is "absolutely radioactive" and Republicans "will suffer widespread election losses in November unless they distance themselves from him."

Said Davis: "They've got to get some separation from the president."

Davis also said his party "would lose 20 to 25 House seats if the election were held today." And if Sen. John McCain is seen by voters as "Bush III" he will lose by 20 percentage points.

[Perdogg]

Tom Davis is a sore loser RINO.

[Clintonfatigued]

The panic is spreading throughout the Republican ranks. Peggy Noonan has recently said something to the same effect.

[Ingtar]

...And if Sen. John McCain is seen by voters as "Bush III" he will lose by 20 percentage points.

If he is seen as John McCain that might be closer to 30.

[1rudeboy]

ACU Lifetime of 70. Why did I even bother to check.

[Ingtar]

...And if Sen. John McCain is seen by voters as "Bush III" he will lose by 20 percentage points.

If he is seen as John McCain that might be closer to 30.

[Constitutional Patriot]

another “J.O.” w, an “R” instead of “D” next to his name.

[DarthVader]

I’ve met Tom Davis and he is not the sharpest tool in the toolbox.

[1rudeboy]

Interesting tagline. Ronald Reagan supported free trade. Does that make him Karl Marx?

[Williams]

Spoken like a true spineless politician. Yes, Bush is unpopular, but leaders with any principles would be able to acknowledge that and still treat the president with respect on issues they agree with. Otherwise, why have republicans “bothered” to support the war, etc.?

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Very courageous, Tom... Act like a RINO, have no principles for how many years, do everything you can to cozy up to the Dems, run from any true philosophy and encourage your fellow Republicans to follow your lead, announce your retirement (just ahead of the pursuing pack of hounds) and then trash your Commander in Chief.

A real profile in courage.

[DarthVader]

What will Hilabama give us?

WW III

[Man50D]

And if Sen. John McCain is seen by voters as "Bush III" he will lose by 20 percentage points.

What a poor attempt by Davis to spin the situation. The GOP is in trouble because of McCain. He and Bush are already two peas in a pod.

[Jeff Head]

The enemies of this nation ceretainly think he is radioactive. Most of them are hiding in holes, afraid to show their very faces...or dieing by the thousands when they do show their faces to our forces.

What hole did you just crawl out of Davis?

Barack Neveill Hussein Chamberlain

[bmwcyle]

Tom Davis is a twit and a jerkoff.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

And Rep. Davis is completely blameless, right?

Let's see:

["Representative Tom Davis (R-VA) is requesting the House of Representatives to consider an amendment...to the Deep Water Energy Resources Act...that would divert $1.5 billion of federal revenues earned through offshore drilling to subsidize the deeply troubled Metro transit system serving the nation’s capital and his congressional district. If enacted, this earmark would be one of the largest ever passed—seven times larger than Alaska’s “Bridge to Nowhere” and twice as large as Mississippi’s “Train to Nowhere.” This earmark would reward Metro’s poor performance with an astounding sum of money while enabling the system to put off essential reforms."]*

OK. This puke has NO credibility. He needs to sit down and STFU, or REPENT!

*Source

[1rudeboy]

Not to defend McCain by any stretch of the imagination, but his ACU Lifetime is 82. So Davis has McCain beaten on the Lib scale by 12 points. Ponder that for a minute.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“The [media manufactured] panic is spreading throughout the Republican ranks.”

There. Fixed it. :)

I’m more apathetic than panicked. I’m going back to grass roots and working locally to get rid of every ‘Rat I can in my state from Dog Catcher on up. I suggest other FReepers do the same.

I’m ready for a revolution, but the shoes of other Republicans aren’t pinching hard enough, yet. It’s just not time. Few are paying attention, aside from here, of course.

[muawiyah]

Be happy to ban tourists on Metro.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Their Earmarks are coming home to roost.

[PRO 1]

Another looser left wing deadbeat freeloading as a Republican.

The loosers are opening their big mouths and revealing theselves if the voters ever get the balls to perge.

[Parmy]

The problem with the Republicans is that one cannot tell them apart from the Democrats. They are one and the same.

There is no line of demarkation. There is no leadership. The Republicans are rudderless and stand for nothing.

[the invisib1e hand]

The more they hate you, the more likely you are on the right track.

For every idiotic and disrespectful comment made about the President, a book will someday be written extolling him as one of the great leaders of history.

[abercrombie_guy_38]

I don’t think it’s media manufactured, rather self-manufactured.

Republicans are our own worst enemies in quite a few ways.

[Roccus]

"The Republicans are rudderless and stand for nothing.

Truly sad.....but true nevertheless.

[Man50D]

Not to defend McCain by any stretch of the imagination, but his ACU Lifetime is 82.

Two points to consider. Any person or group can create arbitrary criteria to create a rating system. Regardless of that fact, that rating is misleading. Per The American Thinker: McCain's ACU Rating

Senator John McCain's lifetime rating of 82.3% from the American Conservative Union is often cited as proof that he is conservative. Here is a closer look at that 82.3 rating. First, a rating of 82.3 is not really that high. It puts Senator McCain in 39th place among senators serving in 2006, the latest year for which the ACU has its ratings posted online. For that most recent year in particular, McCain scored only 65, putting him in 47th place for that year. Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE), for example, scored 64 and 75, respectively, in 2006.

Generally, McCain has voted less conservatively in more recent years. His average for 1990-97 was 88, but was only 74 for 1998-2006.

These observations fail to factor support McCain receives from socialist Joe Lieberman. His lifetime ACU rating is 16.8%. McCain's rating would be lower if his association with Lieberman was included.

[AmusedBystander]

George W. Bush

Highest approval: 10/8-9/2001 92%

Lowest approval: 5/8-11/2008 31%

Ronald Reagan

Highest approval: March 30, 1981 Shot by Hinckley 73%

Lowest approval: January 22, 1983 42%

People sure are fickle in their opinions aren't they?

[1rudeboy]

ACU publishes its methodology, and I'm familiar with the critiques. I can tell you from years and years of being a political junkie that unless your ACU Lifetime is 92 or over (or at least over 90), then you're a RINO by conservative standards.

The observation I was making is that 1. we all know McCain is a RINO, and 2. comparing his score to Davis', we can surmise that Davis is a conservative Democrat. (And 3., again speaking from experience, anyone who claims a score of 82 makes one a conservative is a shill).

[mtnwmn]

Excellent!

[M203M4]

Davis is a bigger part of the problem than Bush, and at least as big a part of the problem as McCain.

He is part of the Main Street Partnership, together with:

Norm Coleman,
Susan Collins,
John McCain, <———
Gordon Smith,
Olympia Snowe,
Arlen Specter,
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Which is aligned with the groups:

Republicans for Choice
Christine Todd Whitman’s “It’s My Party Too”
Republican Majority For Choice
The Wish List
Republicans for Environmental Protection

[darkangel82]

That 70 is artificially high.

[Roccus]

I’d love to see what his rating would be if they included 2007, the year of Shamnesty.

[roses of sharon]

This Davis character is a embarrassing whiner, he describes himself here, 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.”

[CharlesWayneCT]

Tom Davis thought he was next in line to be the “moderate” senator from Virginia, the heir apparent to John Warner.

But the party chose a convention, he spent all his money in a losing effort to get his even more liberal wife re-elected, so had had to abandon his senate plans. Now he’s trying to oust the RPV committee members who denied him a primary.

He stabbed Bush in the back in 2007, along with our troops, when he went along with the Democrats. I’m glad he quit. We’ll probably lose his seat, but I don’t care.

[justiceseeker93]

ACU Lifetime of 70.

I presume that is Tom Davis' lifetime rating by the American Conservative Union. BTW, what is McCain's lifetime ACU rating?

[patriciamary]

When is a politician ever going to stand up for what is right,and speak the truth.NEVER!!

[Roccus]

Politician; a four letter word spelled with ten letters.

[newfreep]

I agree with Davis. The repubs should run away from bush and run as true conservatives.

[CharlesWayneCT]

And recently he hadn’t really done that much to make government work better, either. Wasted some time making sure the world was safe from baseball players on steroids, and more than anybody turned the good fight to save Terri Shiavo into a circus by SUBPOENAing her, making us a laughingstock.

[Mogollon]

All GOP congressman / senators should run as a Reagan conservative and for victory in Iraq. They should make it clear they disagree with Bush and McCain on illegal immigration and global warming. Conservatives will put them back in office if they have the guts to run as conservatives.

[dfwright]

So they are already setting themselves up to believe that if/when the republicans lose seats this fall, it’s all Bush’s fault.

I suppose it’s too much to have hoped that they might have understood that they’ve departed from the conservative base. When they lose seats this fall, it will be their own fault, not President Bush’s fault.

Give us a few good conservatives to vote for!

[roses of sharon]

It galls me that he is taking this fight out in the open, he and his men should be buckled down in deep reflection every night after hours, planning, scheming, talking things over, deciding on policies.

He should be meeting with members of the Republican base, scouring Internet boards like this one, producing media campaigns, assigning duties, goals, talking points, planning attacks.

He should be AT WAR with the UnAmerican Democrat Party, not the President.

[jmaroneps37]

Hey davis you schmuck you guys have a 18% approval rating and he has a 29% approval rating! Did you go to government school or just cut math class in a real school?

[Man50D]

BTW, what is McCain's lifetime ACU rating?

Read post #26.

[imahawk]

LOLOLOLOLOL you are so right.

[justiceseeker93]

McCain's rating would be lower if his association with Lieberman was included.

Associations with other politicians are never included in these congressional ratings by the ACU, nor those by any other interest groups that rate congressmen. The ratings are based only on votes, as they should be.

[TigersEye]

Latest RINO to make excuses for moving further left.

Pandermercial at 11:PM.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Otherwise, why have republicans “bothered” to support the war, etc.?

You may wish to recall that many of these RINOs were in the line for the lifeboats before the surge was proposed and put into effect.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Not to defend McCain by any stretch of the imagination, but his ACU Lifetime is 82. So Davis has McCain beaten on the Lib scale by 12 points. Ponder that for a minute.

The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler did a breakdown of his ACU ratings. It appears he was conveniently absent from some rather important votes.

That said, Davis is a tool, and the fact that he is in any sort of position to be speaking for the national GOP pretty well sells the case that the GOP has its head up its ass.