DEMS BUSHWHACKED BY WHAT DID BUSH KNOW' ATTACK

New York Post ^ | 5/30/02 | DEBORAH ORIN

[Howlin]

What is KILLING the Dems is that Bush's PERSONAL approval is STILL at 80 percent.

[Howlin]

I use to think the Dems would "get it." Now, it suits me just fine that they don't. What fools they are. It just goes to show how out of touch they really are with the people of this country. They are in for SUCH a shock in November. I'm gonna be SOOOOOO happy about it.

[mystery-ak]

Yes, I got the new Gallup numbers too...GW is still holding at 76%......I'd post it, but I don't know how

[Elenya]

The Dems should pay more attention to what's being said on FR. We've been warning them from the start that it would backfire. They didn't listen and they kept at it. Oh well... Aren't we lucky they're DU lurkers? he he he

[bray]

This was obviously a Dame clinton politics of personal destruction attack. Wonder how happy her Congressional puppets are in the wake??? Time to take the Dame's head off over her cheap attacks on the President! What did she and Reno know and why didn't they do anything about it???

Pray for GW and the Truth

[skateman]

Great Post, So Right On!

[Nonstatist]

Dem pollster Mark Mellman claims the proof that Democrats are acting on principle ..is precisely that it's dumb politics

LOL! These spinsters are shameless, arent they? Oh yea.. we knew it was dumb politics, but we did it on principle! We knew no one would believe us!.. Funny stuff..

[skateman]

Great Post, I wonder what would happen if Bush just bluntly came out and said. "Look the Sudan offered Clinton Bin Laden in 1998, and he refused to take him."

[Sabertooth]

This story verifies much of what you have been saying.

Might it also suggest that the time when the Dems and the press can steamroll lies and slander with impunity has passed?

On other threads I've been reading for weeks, "Look what the press is doing to Bush on the 'What did he know about 9/11?' reports."

My response then, as it is now... "Nothing."

[Wright is right!]

"It's not just they like the job he's doing- I believe Americans just truly like Bush as a person. They started out being prepped by the media to not like him but lo and behold people saw that he wasn't a bad guy after all and indeed one they could respect."

Unwittingly, you've just opened the window into the Dems 2000 and post-2000 strategery(!). Within the party, they KNEW that, if given time, the public would come to really really like Dubya. Their two chances at derailing him came - first, during the campaign - in trying to paint him as dumb=as=a=post (lacking "gravitas," another HUGE linguistics backfire), and if that didn't work, then - secondly, early in his term - to find some kind of really ugly scandal with which to discredit him. Ancillary among this tawdry pair would be Obstructionism - making sure the "Do-Nothing, Know-Nothing from West Texas" President would be hamstrung from Day One and not get one iota accomplished.

Both strategeries backfired like a fuel-air explosive. Bush shoveled thru several popular incentives in Congress, prosecuted crisply the first stages of the War On Terrah (thankew, Jim Lehrer) and now has made a legacy for himself and the entire Western World in only his 16th full month in office - joining hands with Russia in a strategic partnership and ushering the old Cold Bear into NATO. Presidents DIE for this kind of legacy. X-42(i) couldn't even make a Mid-East peace last long enough for the signers to leave Camp Davey.

Which is causing the kind of absolute desperation you see from Tiny Tommie and the Dems on a daily basis. Every time one of them shows up in public, it's a Press Dialysis. They pull toxins out of their bodies and spew them across the country. And it's STILL not sticking - and it won't, despite what the pundits say. Remember "quagmire??"

I said it here 18 months before the election. Watch this guy. You won't believe how proud you'll be of him as your President. I also said you wouldn't agree with everything he did, but that he is Mr. Big Picture - and you'll like his vision.

Michael

[deport]

Bush's PERSONAL approval

What are you calling "Personal approval'? Is that the 'favorability' ratings some polls use?

[Texas Jack]

Having watched him as governor of Texas, I came to the same conclusion. He united our state like none other before him.

The quality that he has that people relate to is that he is believable. Can you imagine seeing x-42 working on his ranch and allowing himself to be shown sweating?

As far as little tommie and dickie, or any other demorat, goes, everyone knows that they are lying. Much like x-42, you can see the lies in their eyes. So, much the press' chagrin, the people really are smarter that they give them credit for.

[finnman69]

The biggest miscalculation the RATS made on this one was steering the top issue for Americans back to 9/11, terrorism and national security. The new Gallup poll out today shows Bush's support is general in nature, not on specifics. The negatives are similar. People LIKE Bush and negative attacks are going to backfire. Now the summer is here and politics are on vacation for most. Let's see what the RATS come up with come Labor day and see if they learned anything.

[ppaul]

Watching the Democrats lemming like march to the sea is very satisfying.

Democrats?

Then who are the folks allowing student visas to continue being issued to young Saudi males?

[finnman69]

You read the Harris polls wrong.The 51% number referred to handling of the mideast.

The Harris Poll 5/15-21/02
"How would you rate the overall job President George W. Bush is doing as president: excellent, pretty good, only fair, or poor?"
Excellent/ Pretty Good 74%
Only Fair/ Poor 25%
Not Sure/ Refused 1%
1,013 sampled

[Dales]

I didn't. Kondracke did.

I had just read what he had written (as had been pointed out to be incorrect earlier in this thread). Thanks though.

[finnman69]

[Irene Adler]

Actually this may work out quite well for Bush. Now he has a much freer hand than he would have had before to redesign the FBI, the CIA, and possibly the INS the way he wants to redesign them. A big stink over how these agencies performed plays right into Bush's hands, IMHO, if he handles it right, and the way he's been doing things, I think, ultimately, he will play it very right.

[Howlin]

Hmmmm....I guess so. I've heard it called personal approval before, as opposed to JAR.

[RooRoobird14]

The fact that Scumocrats attacked and the attack backfired is NOT evidence that Scumocrats are "principled".

(LOL, what a ridiculous idea that is) What it did prove is how DESPERATE these lying sacks of manure are. Desperate people make lots of mistakes--BWHAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!!!