Can Bush Be Re-Elected?

Powerline ^ | 9/12/03 | RocketMan

[Joe_October]

Rats don't need money. The big three broadcast the Rat message. It will be in the sit coms, it will be in every half hour newscast.

Bush wins if the public doesn't buy the crap that the media is pushing.

Dean (or whoever) will be the funniest (at least in private), smartest, most bestest person in the world (nay the universe). And, no dirt will be exposed. And if it is irrefutable, the media will repudiate them (Flowers aka 60 Minutes puff piece).

I hope they got Bin Laden, his clone, Hussein, and the idiot dictator of North Korea sitting in a freezer to be dropped on the public in the last three weeks before the election because anything other than that and the Press will be up to their old tricks.

Me, personally, if I was in a room with Dan Rather, OBL, Hussein, Hitler, Stalin, and all I had was a gun with two bullets, I'd shoot Rather twice. (Hey, it's a joke. And another one - I'd shoot him in the nuts twice.)

[ntnychik]

Who is your alternative with a chance to win? Or do we go back to Warren Christopher/Madeline Albright umbrella diplomacy under a Dem. admin.? The Dems will revert to their pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, anti-American policies unless Lieberman is elected, but his chances of winning either the nomination or election are somewhere between slim and none.

[zencat]

"Whatcha smoking? Job creation? What!? Did more McDonald's open up? Hooyah, that'll get him re-elected."

If there's one thing I've heard during EVERY recession, it's that all the jobs have gone overseas and are never coming back. And you know what, innovative Americans have always proved the nay-sayers wrong by creating new industries. This recession and stock bubble was nothing more than another "gale of creative destruction".

[Alberta's Child]

I give the Bush administration credit for one major accomplishment -- they've learned to use their influence in the major media to their advantage.

Any major media outlet that treats the Bush administration harshly is going to lose its White House press credentials, and their ratings will end up taking a dive without that kind of direct access.

This threat has been used successfully once in the past with this administration, and I applaud them for it because that's the snotty, sh!tty game that a Democratic administration would play.

[EGPWS]

Whatcha smoking? Job creation?

Well, I smoke cig's myself, make a flat $63,000 in normal working hours and work most of the time double hours. I ain't complaining about working, nor am I complaining because nobody helped me see the light, change my attitude, realize that I am not offered a free ride (paid for by others), and WORKED my butt off to assure myself of finding a nitch on my own, numerous times in my life that would give me an income that I am happy with. Ya' know, all in all I am happy with life!

It does include work however to achieve my level of happiness.

[PGalt]

California is a testament to The Democratic Crime Syndicate's expertise at job creation. What are they...and anyone who votes for them...smokin? President Bush will win in a landslide.

[yooper]

We ignore the writer's words at our peril. They may be pessimistic and defeatist, but they may not be wrong. The author raises some very salient points regarding the behavior of the press on this matter. Every soldier who is killed in Iraq and Afghanistan is the subject of the evening news the next day. Don't be blind to the fact that the killings are not being engrained by the press into many impressionable US minds as evidence of failure of the Iraqi mission. That fact alone may have telling consequences for Bush in the next election.

The election of 2004 will heat up, as it always does, next summer, the summer prior to the election. By then the libs will have chosen their nominee, and that nominee will embark on an unprecedented attack on a sitting Republican president. Bush will need to have stopped the Iraqi attacks by then, or he will need to have a major capture of either OBL or Saddam. In my opinion he will capture neither, since I believe they are both dead. That leaves Iraq.

Will the killings in Iraq stop? I doubt it. I don't believe these killings of our soldiers are solely attributable to remaining Baathist sympathisers. Thye Sunni's may hate the Baathist's, but (being muslims) they hate the US even more, and I believe they are also mixed up in the current attacks on our servicemen on the ground in Iraq. Should this prove to be the case, Bush is in an untenable position in the middle east. His options with regard to victory in the 2004 election will be to get us out of Iraq, or invade Iran.

Regardless of what happens in Iraq, I also believe that Bush is vulnerable in 2004, for the same reasons given in the article. Hope I'm wrong, but suspect I'm not.

[RLK]

The title of another thread: California to give free college to illegals. ---------------------------------

In answer to the question: Can Bush Be Re-Elected? Can Bush Be Re-Elected? I hope not. We are financing an invasion of this nation across its borders. Bush seems to have taken a strong part in encouraging it. In an article I wrote I described people who were posessed by a destructive masochistic rapture. My belief is that Bush is one of those people so posessed. He has a destructive streak deep within him that seems to be tied up in the selflessness and sacrifice of warped religion. The faster he's gone, the better I will like it. I honestly believe the man is destructive and is presiding over the deterioration of this nation. That's the way I'm calling it.

[PGalt]

Landslide. Snap out of it RLK.

[Bobibutu]

"Nattering Nabob of Negativism Alert! "

Say what ya want about Spiro - he had command of the english language!

[EGPWS]

President Bush will win in a landslide.

It will happen. Then what are the naysayers going to spout? Punch cards again? Media bias? Money? Oh, I almost forgot, the reason will be "OIL" because of all the money spent to free Iraq. That should be a good one for the naysayers!

It certainly can't be said that it is because of a lack of promotion for social issues can it?

[Alberta's Child]

Changing demographics will definitely influence future elections, but you have to remember that even Democrats have to figure out a way to govern effectively.

Try this test:

Write down a list of all the prominent pieces of legislation that Bill Clinton signed into law from November 1994 to November 2000. Read through that list, and ask yourself (while trying hard to ignore the whole impeachment episode) this question: Was this president a Republican or a Democrat?

[EGPWS]

My prediction: Bush will be the last Republican president for a long time. This means he may get reelected, again, if he does well during the debates. Reason: changing demographics. Don't laugh.

I won't, however, please explain your reasoning for such a statement if you would be so gracious to do so.

[WillowyDame]

LOL is right!

[van_erwin]

Keep in mind that the media went all out against Bush in the original campaign

I'll agree that the mainstream media seems to be out to get GW right now, but I don't know how you can say they went all out against him in the presidential campaign. Sure, there were the "Dubya is dumb" jokes, but that was comedians, not the newscasters. I remember a lot of things that the RATS tried to throw up against Bush that never stuck in the media. I was impressed at the time that Gore got called on a lot of stuff that I would have expected the Liberal media to give him a pass on.

I'd say the media goes for the easiest story to report and sell, for the same reasons they always have: laziness and greed.

[Cronos]

Can Bush be re-elected

errr...
YEAH!!

[des]

ditto

[des]

He danced with the ones that brung him last time, and barely survived. He needs converts. The INS will decide the election.