Posted on 01/02/2005 5:25:51 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JAN 02, 2005 18:00:00 ET XXXXX
BUSH BASH BOOK BURSTS IN TIME FOR INAUGURAL
Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor who was President Bush's first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has written a book that touts the importance of moderates to the future of the Republican Party and flays Bush and his team for ignoring the country's middle.
Whitman charges on Page 3 that Bush's three-percentage-point margin in the popular vote is the lowest of any incumbent president ever to win reelection, the WASHINGTON POST reports in coming editions, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.
IT'S MY PARTY TOO: THE BATTLE FOR THE HEART OF THE GOP AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA streets during inauguration week, insuring heavy media coverage
"The numbers show that while the president certainly did energize his political base, the red state/blue state map changed barely at all, suggesting that he had missed an opportunity to significantly broaden his support in the most populous areas of the country," Whitman writes. "The Karl Rove strategy to focus so rigorously on the narrow conservative base won the day, but we must ask at what price to governing and at what risk to the future of the party."
Whitman details her many scars and frustrations in dealing with what she calls the "antiregulatory lobbyists and extreme antigovernment ideologues" that she suggests hold too much sway over the Republican party.
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I'm not sure I trust WP spin to tell me what's in this book. Who's publishing it?
hmm...
Christy Witless...nah, doesn't qualify!
It's like the Taft name in Ohio (where I live). If a new Taft gets born, you can bet that he'll run for office at some point, and you can bet that he'll get a lot of votes. It's a brand name.
"Bush" is now a brand name.
If Jeb Bush were to run, you'd guarantee yourself the conservative base. Wait until 2012 or 2016 and there'll be no problems with dynasty attacks. (And Florida proves that Jeb's an excellent politician.)
Whitman bad-mouthing a winning president. What a nimrod!
Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of William Henry Harrison.
Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt were cousins.
And had Robert Lincoln accepted his party's Presidential nomination when it was offered, I would have gladly voted for him (had I been alive then).
Ultimately, it is up to the American people and, on occasion, their representatives in the House, to decide who they want for their President. The requirements for this office are spelled out clearly in the Constitution and don't include a prohibition on family members.
I think you may be confusing our process with that of a hereditary monarchy. There, the people have no choice but in America we always have a choice.
No Sweety, it isn't. Not anymore.
There's another one -- Robert Taft, son of President William Howard Taft. He very nearly got the Republican nomination and it would have been an honor to vote for him (or for his father, for that matter).
Another backstabbing RINO. Next !
Thanks, Newland.
Whitman is one politician that makes me ill to hear and to see. She is the most profound disappointment I've ever seen in NJ politics.
I voted for her in 1990 agaianst Bill Bradley, and in 1992. I held my nose and voted for her in 1996.She took a bad situation in this state, started to turn it around, then took a sharp left turn and plummeted the state off a financial cliff.
It is the height of arrogance to accuse the President of failing to do things that........
...Christine Todd Whitman failed to do. Everything she blames Bush for, she has failed to accomplish herself.
A disgusting RINO.
Martin Van Buren was the third cousin twice removed of Theodore Roosevelt.
Adlai Stevenson's grandfather was Vice President under Cleveland.
Even Eleanor Roosevelt was Theodore Roosevelt's niece.
The Karl Rove strategy to focus so rigorously on the narrow conservative base....kinda like the Mississippi River is narrow compared to its length?
Zachary Taylor: second cousin of James Madison
Grover Cleveland: sixth cousin once removed of Ulysses Grant
Franklin Roosevelt: fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses Grant, fourth cousin three times removed of Zachary Taylor, fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt
Harry Truman: great-great-great nephew of John Tyler
Richard Nixon: seventh cousin twice removed of William Taft, eighth cousin once removed of Herbert Hoover
George H W Bush: fifth cousin four times removed of Franklin Pierce, seventh cousin three times removed of Theodore Roosevelt, seventh cousin four times removed of Abraham Lincoln, eleventh cousin once removed of Gerald Ford
Yikes! Looks like we've had a "dynasty" all along! Whatever will we do?
Let's watch the language.
She sure screwed up NJ..A lot of people in NJ voted BUSH..Concidering that NJ is die hard Dems ( people are still afraid of the Dem machine here (we did pretty well supporting Bush..She should shut up..No one cares what she thinks anyway.
And there are loads of chimps running around claiming that the "moderate" RINOs are the GOP's friends. Ain't that great?
That statement misrepresents my remarks.
But, when the RINOs make the difference between a GOP majority and a liberal Democrat majority, damn straight. If you don't understand that, you're an ass.
If disagreeing with your vacuous tripe makes me an ass, then it's a title I'll wear with pride, sport.
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