Dubya's PR team sucks. Plain sucks. Granted, he's in a no-win with the lefty media, but still, he could be using the bully pulpit and his surrogates far better than he has. Give that scum Clinton his due, he knew how to get his team on the same page.
Rove has no political war room in place - they don't move proactively on stories, don't know how to play the news cycles, nothing.
I wouldn't say that just yet. Maybe they're waiting for Kerry to stick his foot in his mouth about this. The White House isn't stupid. Everything I've seen indicates that they have a strategic plan. Maybe they know that there's more evidence to collect to insure a slam dunk. Bush knows that his numbers are slipping. When he does address the people, he has to make sure the news is overwhelmingly good. It seems like they've just found a small portion of a much larger stockpile. More time means more evidence.
Agreed. I second that statement. The Bush PR Team double-sucks!
I love W, but I must agree with you -- his PR team sux. No other way to put it. There is SO MUCH he should be sharing with the American public. What we are doing, and WHY it is important to the US and our future that we do it. What is the real meaning of 'finds' like this. And if Bush does not use the bully pulpit to tell these stories, they will not be told. It is a vain hope to think they will be reported in the future if the media thinks they can get a scoop. They've already proven that they don't care about getting scoops -- all they care about is 'getting' W.
It isn't even the election so much as the importance of LEADING the American public -- so that we have pride and the will to live again. As opposed to Kerry and the media, who obviously think we should be ashamed of ourselves, and indulge in endless self-flagellation, and not even fight to protect ourselves!
Clinton was on TV every single night. Surely a good PR man could come up with an event or story angle that they would be almost obliged to cover. And surely he could come up with a decent team to ensure that the country is covered from coast to coast. The fractious fools in the GOP are no help at all.
Wish I had my own top-flight PR firm right now! :-)