GOP turns to McCain to reinvent party
How?
If they remove the aisle, McCain won't have to strain himself reaching across it.
I'd prefer "bust".
Posted on 05/19/2008 2:33:34 PM PDT by americanophile
It is hard to underestimate the amount of dislike harbored by the Left for George W. Bush, and even among independents and many Republicans, there is a definite sense of Bush fatigue. The respected Rasmussen poll placed the President’s approval rating at just 32% last week - the lowest ever recorded by Rasmussen, with a slumping economy putting the final nail in the popularity coffin of the Administration.
Last week’s Republican defeat in Mississippi’s special election has Republican insiders sweating bullets. If current trends hold, many are predicting a GOP rout unlike any in recent history. The traditional GOP brand - the one forged by Ronald Reagan is, at least in the near term, irrevocably broken. At this point, the less the President says, the better. Yet, in typical fashion, the retrograde Bush communications team managed to further damage GOP prospects in November with a controversial speech delivered to the Israeli Knesset, which was widely regarded as a thinly veiled attack on Barack Obama. The fact that what the President said was essentially true - that it’s sheer madness to have direct, unconditional, presidential-level talks with Islamic fanatics like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad- is beside the political point. The Democrats are running an explicitly anti-Bush campaign, with Senator Obama adopting the canard that McCain is running for Bush’s third term. The President should stay as far away from the current race as possible, but inexplicably his own staff purportedly confirmed to journalists that Obama was the target of the remarks, placing Bush squarely in the middle of the current debate - right where the Democrats want him.
At this point one wonders if the President is not the victim of deliberate sabotage. Forget for a moment the President’s own congenital inability
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This writer is a nimrod.
Good article and the writer is absolutely correct.
I disagree. McCain is one of the Republicans biggest problems. McCain continues to split the Republican Party almost daily.
Bust
I think Dick Morris has it right.
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2008/05/19/obama-has-the-upper-hand-but-mccain-can-still-take-him/
Bust.
“At this point one wonders if the President is not the victim of deliberate sabotage.”
Of course he has been both from within his party and from the liberals. Unlike Reagan, Bush is a terrible communicator. WHy hasn’t he come out weekly decrying the liberals inability to pass an energy bill that includes drilling here? The economy is not as bad as it being touted to be. Why doesn’t he set the record straight and at the same time give people a real sense of the our capitalistic society, and how lowering taxes for people and industry helps us.
I think once he nominated Harriet Meirs alot of us started to think that he wasn’t who we thought he was.
+1
If Obama wins the election, I can guarantee that within a few months, some people on all sides are going to miss George Bish.
The GOP is losing us, and that is why they are losing the big GOP seats.
No matter what spin you put on it, they are losing because we ain't buying.
I am opting for bust.
Who would be better? I mean I’d love to have the enthusiasm for another Ronald Reagan but we don’t have him.
McCain might keep us from a terrible defeat across the board. Hold your nose and vote for him. Hopefully, he’ll pick a running mate that will make it easier for us.
Sadly I have lived long enough to realize the American people get it right about 40% of the time.
I'd prefer "bust".
There. Fixed it.
Nice...
I didn't think BO---not even when the media told me to.
Bush hatred is driving this election. Bush-haters are willing and eager to swallow anything.
I also agree with the author. The above sentence is the very last line. IMO, it's a good reminder and a great "bumper sticker" slogan of what we may get if Sen. Obama becomes the next president.
We elect him at our peril!
GOP turns to McCain to reinvent party
How?
If they remove the aisle, McCain won't have to strain himself reaching across it.
Those Jorge Boosh pesos just do go very far these days.
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Does this freakin' idiot fail to realize that he IS the federal government???
He kept saying in the debates, "Washington is broken."
I kept posting, "You helped break it, Senator."
A-friggin-men.
As the recent outpouring of raw, naked outrage on the NRCC web site makes both manifest and plain: insofar as the voting conservative base is concerned, he absolutely has not done so.
Responsibility for the adamant rejection of John McCain by the conservative voting bloc, therefore, rests ultimately with the unsatisfactory candidate, and he alone.
It does no good whatsoever to hop up and down like so many amphetamined spider monkeys, agitatedly shrilling "OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMAOBAMAOBAMA!!!," as Barack Obama is not running as the Republican candidate for the presidency this year; McCain is. He either closes the deal himself, based on his ability to persuade conservatives what he himself has to offer them (if anything)... or: he does not.
You may very well be right.
Well said. I was like this back when we were arguing Bush/McCain. McCain was MORE conservative back then and STILL a horrible choice.
Why is it never mentioned that the democRAT congressional approval rating is now 18% (14 full percentage points below dubya's).
At least we know what to expect from a Rat.
The only thing that will unite and make Republicans conservative again is a Rat in the office.
Stop trying to elect McCain and work on the Congressional elections. They are the only firebreak at this point.
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
Add me to the Bust category.
For Later.
I can dream, can't I?
The GOP dealt a busted hand. Time to fold and shuffle a new deck for the re-draw.
Thanks. Since you've weighed in, I don't have to click the link to get to the punchline.
*snicker*
I’d like the bust ,please. Oh wait, what if its that bust of hillary? urph ...sorry I just threw up in my mouth.
Once he nominated Harriet Miers a lot of "us" eagerly stabbed him in the back. Not only that, but a lot of "us" needlessly trashed a good woman who, while perhaps not Supreme Court material, didn't deserve the vicious attacks and piling on spewed by the Right.
After the 2004 election, the Right-wing punditocracy decided it was time for them to broaden their audiences by showing just how much they could pile on the President, and they did, day after day after day, starting with the Miers nomination. A lot of "us" blindly followed them down this path, thereby undermining his entire 2nd term.
President Bush is a good and decent man who, when his term is over, will gladly return to Texas having done the best job he could under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. Only four other presidents in history faced dire threats to our nation equal to 9/11/01 and the subsequent anthrax attacks. Washington, because the nation was so new and vulnerable. Madison, because of the British invasion. Lincoln, because of the Civil War. And Franklin Roosevelt, because of Pearl Harbor and the Nazi takeover of continental Europe.
In the Washington, Madison, Lincoln and FDR eras, presidents weren't expected to be all things to all people, not just domestically, but overseas. They weren't expected to be great communicators, mourner-in-chief for every natural disaster, "THE leader of the free world," economist-in-chief, educator-in-chief, and so on. I totally believe, with very good reason, that Katrina was one disaster too many, in too short a time (4 years), for the man. I believe Katrina burned him out to a considerable degree.
Katrina hit in August 2005. President Bush, still preoccupied with the Katrina aftermath as well as the war against radical Islam, turned to someone he knew well and nominated Harriet Miers in October 2005 to fill the seat being vacated by Sandra Day O'Connor. (He had nominated John Roberts for that seat, but withdrew that nomination in order to nominate Roberts to replace Rehnquist after the latter's death). In nominating Miers, the President let his guard down and, instead of nominating someone favored by the Right wing of his party, he nominated someone he has personally known since 1989, who is from his home state, and who had a sterling life history and reputation.
What I learned during the Miers nomination process is that a great many people on the Right are no different than a great many on the Left. They do not know how to oppose and disagree without getting extremely ugly.
The writer is an idiot.
I choose bust, because two boobs are better than one.
I’m convinced of one thing. God watches over America. He will not forsake us. McCain is here for a reason. An Obama Presidency is similar to the presidencies of Buchanan and Pierce that led to the Civil War. It will be a global disaster...
McCain MUST pick a VP running mate that we can sink our teeth into and believe in....
If he picks a Huckabee I’m going to keeeeeeellll myself...
I’ll see your Juan and raise you a peso, if you’ll convince Juan to run from the nation he respects the most, Mexico.
Personally I never blamed Bush for Katrina at all. Louisiana has known, since God was a child, what a direct hit on New Orleans could do. It’s the fault of their illiterate mayor and incompetent former governor. That they opted not to properly construct their cities, build (or lobby for) effective levees, educate their population, properly evacuate when danger was imminent, or appropriately manage once the disaster had hit is not the federal government’s fault, and certainly not the President’s. We’re a federal system for goodness sake. Bush lost the PR war because the Dems wanted to play racial politics with it. Once Bush had been granted permission to order the army into Louisiana by their incompetent governor, things got better. Florida and the other Gulf Coast states get through plenty of hurricanes without it becoming a FEMA disaster. The Northeast manages its ice storms and blizzards without need for the executive branch. The Midwest manages to effectively cope with its floods and tornados without screaming about the President. The west coast manages its earthquakes and conflagrations without the spectacle we saw on TV. The people of N.O. are the victims of their own incompetent leaders.
As for Harriet, she seemed like a nice woman, but not a good choice. He was right to pull her.
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