Posted on 04/10/2006 9:19:24 AM PDT by pop-aye
As more details are brought to the fore about the seamy underbelly of the Bush administration, the perpetually trusting souls among the American electorate are having trouble keeping those scales firmly in place on their eyes.
The president has sunk so far down in the polls it’s hard to imagine he could get any lower without being adept at limbo dancing. And it’s no wonder: Even staunch loyalists are at pains to name one positive thing Bush has accomplished during his five years in office, except perhaps the seating of two new justices (presumed to be conservative by ardent Bush supporters, who could be sorely disappointed if they merely turn out to be fair).
The usual response from Bush fans, when asked such impertinent questions about their fearless leader, is to fire another accusatory salvo at his predecessor, whose peccadilloes are not only irrelevant to the situation at hand, but pale by comparison.
Bush’s “political missteps,” on the other hand, would fill several pages, even with small type. The senior citizens are having trouble with his Medicare program, and his fence-straddling on the immigration issue is ripping his own party apart. The cronies he empowered within FEMA dropped the ball in spectacular fashion when Hurricane Katrina roared through, and the fallout on that fiasco continues. The violence goes on unabated in Iraq, and Afghanistan is lurching toward a theocracy that Western states will ultimately find as unpalatable as Iran’s government. The national deficit has ballooned to incomprehensible levels, and the wages of the average Joe are stagnant. Philosophically, Americans are polarized, and not only do our fellow countrymen from the opposing party dislike us, but the rest of the world does, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at tahlequahdailypress.com ...
What they don't realize is that most people are not happy with how things are going. However, would they be willing to vote Democrat... that is the real question.
No, we'll probably just stay home or vote libertarian. Sure "it's throwing you're vote away" , but if you don't act, they'll never get the message for when 2008 rolls around.
"The usual response from Bush fans, when asked such impertinent questions about their fearless leader,"
What questions?!?! The author never listed a single one. Sad, my brother went to college there. No wonder he hasn't been back.
Bush poll level at "lowest ever" at 38 percent the MSM said this morning. 3 weeks ago it was "lowest ever" at 37%, 2 months ago it was "lowest ever" at 34% (that was the rigged poll where nearly twice as many Dems were polled than Repubs)
It is nice to know that as the President's poll numbers climb, they continue to be announced as 'lowest ever.' That is the nicest bit of free advertising of their bias as one can expect.
Bush can get as low in the polls as the NewsMedia wants him to get. They do the polls they control everything in the polls so they can control what is shown to the public and what questions are asked. The Leftist media will make sure all Republican presidents have low poll numbers and will compare them to their favorite Democrat Presidents. This will go on forever and ever. It's been going on since Reagan or maybe earlier.
That's always my question. The Moonbats always translate dissatisfaction with Bush policies as desire for Democratic takeover. I saw these poll questions once and know that most of my conservative friends would probably have voted the same as the Hate Bush crowd; that being said, it doesn't mean that I wish I'd voted for Kerry. It means I want the Iraq War pursued more aggressively, I want spending cut and I want illegals deported and our borders and existing immigration laws enforced.
All they have to do is refrain from voting and the Republicans are toast. They are squandering the best opportunity in 40 years to reverse the direction of this country....I think history will treat Bush/Republicans poorly. If the Senate can't get the immigration bill right, I know I will.
And if you do, you just might have to get used to the sound of President Hillary Clinton.
This is an editorial by this rag. They must be located in moonbatville OK.
He must think so, he's certainly trying hard enough.
I won't vote libertarian but I will vote 3rd party or write somebody else in. Voting for the lesser of two evils is just plain cowardly.
Aw, jeez...
Talequah, OK is the home of Northeastern State University, basically a teacher's college. Looks like the paper let some jouralism freshman loose.
Anyone too cowardly not to put their name on an article is just wasting bandwidth.
"Even staunch loyalists are at pains to name one positive thing Bush has accomplished during his five years in office..."
Meanwhile, unemployment has dropped to 4.7%, the economy continues to grow (every quarter since his first budget went into effect in October of '01), took out basically 2 repressive regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, put more money in the pockets of all taxpayers which in turn created millions of new jobs since the tax cuts took full effect.
I could go on but that's a start. I wonder who they asked.
Me too. I am utterly disgusted with Arbusto on many things. However, that does not mean I will vote RAT.
Voting GOP means almost the same thing as voting RAT anyway.
Lowest ever at 38% Almost as low as the 36% a month ago.
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