[PoisedWoman]

I keep wondering, "why now?" Why are we faced with sudden scandals close to election time? They were scandals last year, too. Is this an intentional conspiracy by the DemonRats and their press collaborators, or did beleaguered companies' money happen to run out at this time?

[spetznaz]

I just saw something on Fox that even though GWs approval ratings are still in the sixties there is some future turmoil since the ratings for 'would you like to see Bush re-elected in 2004' was in the 47% +/- some points. they said the reason for this is due to the corporate scandals, and that it might get worse as 2004 approaches.

[WyldKard]

While it's easy to want to find a conspiracy, it sounds to me more like extrodinarily bad timing. After Enron, it was like one huge stack of dominos falling...

Unfortunately, most voters minds work on a very simple principle: Economy Bad = Blame Current Sitting President. This is exacerbated by another simplistic principle in most voters mind, which is: Naughty Corporations = Republicans Behaving Badly.

I think the elections will be very close in many places this November...

[LS]

I disagree that this is bad timing. July is not bad at all. If this was September, I'd be more concerned. But things like this usually turn, and the public memory---even though the GOP is in no way to blame---is short. By October, there will be other issues, just as likely some in the GOP's favor.

[Alas Babylon!]

The problem is indeed due to big media. They are anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and anti-conservative. Bias and Slander were not written in a vacuum.

The top story for ABCCBSCNNNBCPBS and all the leftist print media has been:

ENRON=BUSH
WORLDCOM=BUSH
ARTHUR ANDERSEN=BUSH
STOCK MARKET DOWNTURN=BUSH
HARKEN=BUSH
HALBURTON=BUSH/CHENEY

The question is, are we going to counter this using:

ALL THE BAD THINGS WE KNOW ARE TRUE=DEMOCRATS?

[YaYa123]

You asked, "I keep wondering, "why now?" Why are we faced with sudden scandals close to election time? "

with apologies to Alfred Lord Tennyson
OURS IS NOT TO REASON WHY, OURS IS BUT TO DO OR DIE

We should adopt his philosophy,rename his poem, and start working now on the upcoming election. Our logo should be:

"The Charge of the Right Brigade".

If this article's prediction is true, and past experience shows it might be, we have to go to war for votes. Republicans are predicting poor voter turn-out, which might have something to do with Gebhardt already predicting demos will pick up 40 seats in the House.

[Robear]

I keep thinking "How are they pinning this on GW when this was SOP under the previous admininstration (not to mention how the GAO cooks the books). I keep coming up with: the Media is in active collusion with the DemocRats to attack Bush at all costs. Once again, here's the Republican Party standing idly by with its hand in its pockets playing with itself, it's going to lose seats. This stuff is EASILY countered with the TRUTH, but they better start airing some commercials and get their agenda in the press somehow, fast!

[Redbob]

Enron fell apart last fall, scarcely during this campaign.

And keep in mind that the Dims also have a HUGE voter turnout problem. Their party's figurehead, Albert Alphonso Gore, is MIA.

[Robert_Paulson2]

These scandals are democrat scandals... they are eating their own and trying to blame the indigestion on the BUSH adminisration.

EVERY one of these deals is eyeball deep in democrat administration malfeasance... but exposing it now, COULD hurt republicans chances in November... or not.

poor turnout USUALLY hurts dems. Bush is pretty popular... and the case IS being made that former Clinton officials allowed this crap as political favors which have now gone awry...

This tells me the dems are beyond desperate, and moving into suicidal over their ejection from power...