It seems like the longer GWB is away from public view the more unpopular he becomes. That silly billboard “Miss Me Yet?” just doesn’t cut it. I am hoping that the animus against GWB will hold back Jebbie, but then I get discouraged thinking of all those Republican primary voters out there.
I miss that with Bush the car was only heading towards the cliff at 55mph and not at 120mph like it is with Obama....
Public opinion polls show Bush becoming MORE popular but his Snowden comments might stop that trend dead in its tracks.
“In the ex-presidency game, there’s a lot to be said for sitting at home quietly and letting the new guy take his lumps.
Aside from the occasional presidential library to open or first pitch to throw out, chilling out at home with the missus seems to have been former President George W. Bush’s legacy-building gameplan since leaving office in 2008.
According to a major national poll released Tuesday, that strategy is paying off for W.
Gallup pollsters announced Tuesday that the last Bush in office is more popular than our sitting president. Forty-nine percent of Americans now see Bush in favorable terms, compared to 47 percent for President Barack Obama.
Bush’s 49/45 approval-to-disapproval rating split in the new poll also is the first time since 2005 – not-so-coincidentally the same year as Hurricane Katrina – that more Americans say they approve of his presidency than don’t. It’s also a major uptick from his favorability rating low of 35 percent in March 2009. (His high: 87% two months after the 9/11 attacks in 2001).”
http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2013/06/12/look-whos-mr-popularity-again-bush-now-more-popular-than-obama/