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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Not quite. Had you said "Mushy Moderate" I wouldn't argue the point.
My guess is that these passages are misconstrued and that she doesn't say much at all about the administration.
That is a very sane point. It sounds like something a mathematician would write.
may be.
If it's so narrow, how come we won AND made gains in the House and Senate?
Her argument that Rove lost an opportunity is ridiculous.
Frankly, with the anti-Bush hatred as strong as it was, it would have been EXTREMELY difficult to appeal to enough non-conservatives to result in a big red/blue state shift to Bush.
And we still came insanely close in some of those upper OV states to actually take those blue states DESPITE the hatred.
Her argument is flawed due to the extremely high turnout on both sides.
If the turnout was like any normal election, we would have taken those states and turned this into a true Bush landslide.
I've been saying this to myself a lot lately: The Lib-Dems are killing themselves (politically) it's up to us to take out the Rinos. They are as big as enemy as the Dems. A good start would be McCain, then work our way down.
I would disagree. This is a Republican forum. Conservatives are routinely bashed for pointing out whenever Bush and Co. stray from conservative principles.
OUCH! Poor Christine! How embarrasing to come out after the last election with this book. LOL! Poor kid.
Geez, chill out.
Bottom line is Bush got a firm majority of the vote, Clinton never did.
Period.
And Clinton had the media on his side, Bush had to combat lies and obfuscation and vote fraud.
Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere. One of the three men says, "I've got an idea. We can call for help in this canyon and the echo will carry our voices far." So he leans over the basket and yells out, "Helllloooooo! Where are we?" (They hear echo several times.) 15 minutes later, they hear this echoing voice: "Helllloooooo! You're lost!!". One of the men says, "That must have been a mathematician." Puzzled, one of the other men asks, "Why do you say that?" The reply: "For three reasons. (1) he took a long time to answer, (2) he was absolutely correct, and (3) his answer was absolutely useless."
Good grief. Disagree with him on some issues, but by no stretch is George W. Bush a liberal.
LOL. It reminds me about the joke about an attractive hooker who offers her services to a lawyer for free, and the lawyer says I can understand what's in it for you, but what's in it for me?
Does she write about her embarrassing faux pas while she was Governor? You know, the night she went out on patrol with the Troopers and had her picture taken while pat frisking a black perp? If her judgment was that bad as a Governor, how can it be any better as a has-been cabinet member?
The funny thing about this book is I bet she was writing it betting that Bush would lose and that moderates need to lead the party again. She had to spin it and say that Bush only won by 3% points.
Terrible timing for a book and it will not sell well at all. She will get a lot of face time on CNNMSNBCABCCBSNBC though.
The pro-abortion RINOS in the party are a joke and in 2008 the media will be shoving them down our mouths (Pataki, Giuliani, McCain, Arnold etc.)
Conservatives need to keep fighting.
Um, no. You are corrected when you mischaracterize issues and get creative with facts.
Facts and truth are prized here, those who are loose with such get confronted.
I saw Whitmas go on shows like the Daily Show and defend Bush and what not against his claims about Bush being oh so bad for the environment. She said he wasnt as good as shed like him to be but certainly better than they made him out to be. She also supports Bush and the Republican party and campaigned for him. I really see no problem with her. Shes just capitalizing on her moderate Republicanism and the many moderate Republicans here in the North East and the West Coast. i mean she is right. Its her party too.
A doctor, a lawyer and a mathematician were discussing the relative merits of having a wife or a mistress.
The lawyer says, "For sure a mistress is better. If you have a wife and want a divorce, it causes all sorts of legal problems.
The doctor says, "It’s better to have a wife because the sense of security lowers your stress and is good for your health.
The mathematician says, "You’re both wrong. It’s best to have both so that when the wife thinks you’re with the mistress and the mistress thinks you’re with your wife, you can do some mathematics.
Bush seems like a liberal to me. What about him is conservative? He cut some taxes but you also need to cut spending to be conservative so that cancels the tax cutting out.
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