Posted on 01/02/2005 5:25:51 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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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.
Developing...
Knife-In-Back alert.
Hey, she has her right to write this book. I don't think it's going to sell very well, although she will be on ever talk show, including the gratuitous 60 Minutes episode. Heck, they may give her the whole hour.
This book is going to start in the bargain bin and go downhill from there.
Ecch!
Another New Jersey loser. So what's new?
OK, so what happened between her and the administration to get her fired?
I'm tired of hearing how extreme and right wing our party is.
At a time of the most bloated federal government in the history of the world, I think those charges are hardly credible.
Whitman can go to........well, let's just say her political career has peaked and is on the other side of the hill.
Christine Todd Whitman aka Barney's mom...
Oh! those rascally antigovernment idealogues!
oh god!
i just lost the remaining respect that i had for her.
bye!
I don't know how the Paul O'Neil book sold (I also love how those who refer to that book conveniently ignored how O'Neil went on TV the week after the book came out and denounced much of the tone, and said he was voting for Bush for re-election) but I would venture this will only appeal to the Hate-Bush core.
I happen to like CTW, but think she's just the latest in a line of Republicans who think moderate means "letting liberal values govern even though those same values lost at the ballot box". I'm waiting for someone like her to call on liberals to be more moderate.
She is deluded if she thinks people really care about her or what she thinks about GWB. Yesterday's news. She had her chance and she blew it.
nutcases.
A GOP RINO? She left the New Jersey GOP on its deathbed. Quite an accomplishment in two terms as the Garden State's Governor.
Yup, the Constitution defends the freedom of screech.
You're right. The Republicans piss away the American taxpayers money even faster than the Democrats. Remember the heady days when people were trying to guess what departments that Reagan would axe? Not that it happened, but at least it used to be considered possible...
i don't understand her thinking, or dan rather, lack of it.
after a tumultuous election year with literally dozens of hate bush books, what good does she think she'll accomplish?
Interesting, considering it was the middle who elected him.
As sort of a camp follower of the Whitman wing of the party, I wonder what her specifics are that the Bush policy has been captured by the "dark side." I just don't observe that at all from this direction. The main brouhaha at the moment, is that Bush is being too "compassionate" about immigration, which does not credentialize Bush as a hard right winger. And I don't remember Whitman complainging that the Bush tax cuts were too large, and too upscale. So just WHAT is bothering her?
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