Posted on 03/08/2009 11:47:12 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon
The Internet is an amazing thing. With all of the hullabaloo over Rush Limbaugh’s comments I started wondering if I could find evidence of Democrats wanting Bush to fail. Lo and behold Fox News did a poll in 2006 and asked that very question. An article on the poll appeared in the NY Post by Craig Charney, a former Clinton pollster (I found the text of the article at sistertoldjah.com). Check this out.
A recent Fox News poll gets at the disturbing truth: A majority of Democrats say they want to see the president fail. Such deep hatred is bad news for the country at a time when America needs to bridge the partisan divide. It’s also bad news for the Democrats, who risk repeating the Republicans’ mistakes of a decade ago, driving away the centrists they need to regain power or going too far if they do manage to win.
Fox’s question was revealing: “Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to succeed or not?” Democrats said “not,” 51 percent to 40 percent - where the public at large wanted success by almost two to one. [See page 4 of this document for the poll in question.--ST]
In other words, the rage extends way beyond the lip-pierced Deaniacs, aging hippies and other fringes of the Democratic Party. Lots of otherwise sensible people - suburban moms, hospital orderlies, schoolteachers, big-hatted church ladies - detest George W. Bush.
When these Democrats say they want Bush to fail, might this mean that they simply reject what they see as his far-right religious and corporate agenda? If so, it’s hard to see why independents - hardly right-wing zealots - hope he succeeds by 63 percent to 34 percent. Sadly, much of the Democratic Party wants to see this president crash and burn.
In fact, the fury against to Bush has reached unprecedented levels, even compared to the animosity among Republicans to his predecessor. Not long ago, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found that “strong disapproval” of Bush was 10 points higher than that recorded for Bill Clinton at any point during his presidency, including his impeachment. (That wasn’t during a war, either.)
Remember, for better or for worse, George W. Bush will be our president for more than two years. Hoping that he’ll fail is really hoping that America will fail. These people detest Bush so much that they don’t mind America getting a setback across the globe if it will weaken Bush.
Of course, there’s a key difference between then and now. Wishing Bush would fail meant wishing the country lost in Iraq. Wishing Obama fails means rooting against socialistic policies that threaten everything the country was founded on and our future prosperity.
Do you think the MSM, considering their whining about Limbaugh’s comments, would think to look something like this up now and then report on it? Nope, that would actually mean really reporting on something and adding some context. That would mean they couldn’t marginalize and demonize him.
Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!
Remember the famous words of Harry Reid,”anything Bush sends to the congress is dead on arrival”on day one of Bush’s term one(four months late due to Al Gore’s state of denial)
I’m worth-a-pinging Rush here folks!
Thanks Jeff.
This is great stack of stuff Rush fodder. I hope you e-mail him the reference.
We are not a "nation of cowards" as Eric "Boulder" claimed. We're a nation of useless idiots.
I remember clearly. I, personally, am going to be giving Zero the middle finger throughout his one and only term.
i LIKE IT!!!
Nice find!
W won the WOT. He failed at a lot of other things. That’s why we have the articulate nerd in the WH.
Saved for posterity, so that the lyin’ liberals can’t rewrite history.
That’s why we have the teleprompter-reading nerd in the WH.
There. Fixed it.
Sent on to family and friends. Thanks.
Too bad they didn’t tip their hat to you.
I don’t want the economy to collapse. It’s one thing for us to get some sense back into washington, but not through the suffering of our people. But I’m sure most freepers aren’t thinking of that route anyways.
Neither do I, but let me start to count the ways that I do want Obama to fail....
I want Obama to fail in his backdoor attempt to institute single payer health care.
I want Obama to fail to implement union card check laws.
I want Obama to fail to revive the fairness doctrine in whatever sneaky form he will use.
I want Obama to fail to bring back the assault weapons ban.
I want Obama to fail to implement cap and trade which will be a regressive tax on all Americans.
I want Obama to fail in channeling billions of dollars to Acron.
I want Obama to fail in implementing a national curriculum for all primary schools.
I want Obama to fail in making all primary school teachers, public and private have a credential.
I want Obama to fail to get re-elected in 2012.
I could go on and on and on. The point is that his socialist policies will effect a lot more than the economy.
I agree and I do want him to fail in his Liberal agenda. I hope just a part of him is sensible, though. If he is without any reason, we are truely screwed.
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