Posted on 08/01/2005 9:35:05 AM PDT by mordo
This summer, one big story is replaced by another--the London bombings July 7, the speculation that Karl Rove illegally named a covert CIA agent, the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, more London bombings last week. But beneath the hubbub, we can see the playing out of another, less reported story: the collapse of the attempts by liberal Democrats and their sympathizers in the mainstream media--the New York Times, etc., etc.--to delegitimize yet another Republican administration.
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"But mainstream media no longer have a monopoly; Americans have other sources in talk radio, Fox News, and the blogosphere."
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Bush bashing will never be successful. Not only is it a failure, but it is predictable, boring, and lame. It is the fall-back policy for democrats, liberal elitists and the Hollyweird.
cue the "crying baby seal of the DNC"...
And the third party rejects on the right who think they're the only "conservatives" in the world.
It is the PRIMARY policy for democrats.
Well, they've helped drive Bush's approval numbers down. But then they drove their own numbers even lower.
It'a no longer Bush-bashing, they're on to Roberts- and -Rove- bashing.
True.
People compare Bush's numbers to Clinton's - but Bush is facing many serious issues, and is NOT kicking the can down the road as Clinton did.
I agree!
You need a positive program and message in order to win.
The polls on Bush's job approval I think are misleading...we may not be 100% with him all the time, but some people who say they disapprove of Bush would still choose him as the chief executive over any Democrat currently being considered for 08.
Bush's low numbers right now are due IMHO primarily to high gas prices and the MSM campaign against the war in Iraq. I think there is also a component to the numbers the media probably don't even know about, which is conservative unhappiness with Bush over his refusal to veto bloated spending measures and continued fighting of the WOT by Marquess of Queensberry rules.
Agreed.
Could be.
Again, Bush is tackling the big issues and seems less interested in the polls than his predecessor. And you are right - he faces concerns on the right as well as the left. Immigration, spending, etc.
Bush's history is he invests his capital in big ideas - and later reaps even more. If gas prices go back below a buck and a year from now Iraq has a permanent government and function security forces, he'll be popular again.
True. I'd settle for $1.50 a gallon and continued significant progress in Iraq!
I have hesitated to write this, but I'm sure Lincoln's poll numbers were quite low (I know they didn't poll back then - just a figure of speech).
I have to laugh everytime a bitter Lefty falls back on "Bush is an idiot" as a mantra, because they actually have no ammo left after being discredited in the (now) free arena of public debate. Every foolish Dem who continues to actually believe this nonsense is a hundred more votes for a new, revitalized Conservative America.
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