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.
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Her last great achievement as a cabinet member was.....?
Looks like someone who was given a great opportunity by a truly great President just showed her true colors. Another loser whining about what's wrong....And she thinks that somebody is going to pay money to read that? You can get that for free from the MSM--why pay for it?
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And now she moves on to use the MSM to her gain. To sell books. They will help her with glee.
Today they'd re-elect Jim Florio. Today standards have fallen to a point where even a RINO looks too radical to New Jerseyans to stomach.
Guess who gave the Republican rebuttal to Bill Clinton's State of the Union address in January 1995? The one right after the Republican take-over of Congress in 1994?
What does she mean by forgetting the middle? Bush is a liberal.
If Mrs. Whitman hadn't inherited wealth, would anyone know who she was?
Which proves her point that moderate Republicans win by large margins ...
She came close to unseating Bill Bradley in 1990.
That's a great line!!!!! Needs repeating.
Cause she' a RHINO! That's why!
The funny thing is its the Democrats who wondering if they're too extreme on abortion. The RINOs so do not get it.
Actually, two Democrats in the last century (Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and Harry Truman in 1948) won re-election with a 3% margin in popular votes. Unlike George W. Bush, however, neither broke 50%.
You would cry too, if it happened to you!
Factually, this is undisputably true. However, she, as well as many others who point this out, are acting as if this number happened in a vaccuum when it didn't, and if all things were equal, when it wasn't. Figuratively, the victory is much biggger than the number indicates:
Bush is the 1st and only president ever to win re-election despite losing the popular vote the 1st time around.
He is the only other incumbent (besides Truman) in the age of polling to win re-election despite falling behind most of the year.
He won despite having the worst media coverage of a gop presidential candidate in decades.
He won despite the "Herbert Hoover" economy.
He won despite the Iraq "Vietnam" quagmire.
He won despite supposedly having "lost" ALL three debates (truth be told, it was just the 1st).
He won despite the democrats outspending the gop this cycle.
He won despite the most massive (anti-Bush) voter mobilization.
Plus he had the very vocal Hollywood industry gunning for him and MTV's very effective draft lie-mongering. If the media treatment had been exactly equalled and if Bush didn't have his (whether perceived or real) electoral drawbacks, it would have been a wipeout. With all that he had to work with, even with his own liabilities, Kerry still COULDN'T win--what a total clod.
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