Posted on 05/25/2002 7:33:40 AM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
A week's worth 9-11 smear-mongering by leading Democrats and their media handmaidens has failed to dent President Bush's popularity, according to the latest CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll.
More than three-quarters of those surveyed gave Bush a positive job approval rating, despite an onslaught of politically motivated accusations that administration officials failed to connect the dots on intelligence data that could have forewarned of the 9-11 attacks.
Sixty percent of those surveyed said the information available before the attacks would not have been enough for administration officials to have predicted what was coming.
Nineteen percent said the Bush administration made "an understandable mistake."
Only 23 percent agreed that Bush officials made "a serious error" in not reading the tea leaves foreshadowing the attacks.
Leading Democrats began their full-scale assault last Thursday, with New York Sen. Hillary Clinton demanding, "What did the president know?" in advance of Sept. 11.
And while some, like House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, have softened their earlier rhetoric, on Friday Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Lieberman was still invoking Watergate-like phraseology to suggest a 9-11 scandal.
"I don't think the question is the old White House question about what did he know and when did he know it?" Lieberman told radioman Don Imus. "The really more important question, as we look back, is what was he told and when was he told it?"
The CNN-USA Today-Gallup survey polled 1,000 adults between May 20-22 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent.
I gotta disagree with the Tom Ridge cartoon, though. Ridge is actually doing his job...media hysteria mongering notwithstanding. The alert codes were changed to "Star Treak" style because almost no regular American citizen knows what "DEFCON" means, let alone what "delta" or "charlie" mean, and the fed needed a way to get a quick response from the ...err...voters from the BLUE areas of the map.
Yeah, I know lots of FReepers live in the cities still...and you FReepers who DO live in cities know you're part of the informed minority.
Signin' off..again. Stay safe, everyone.
Watch Gallup Poll Video here:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/Multimedia/video/archived/2002/05/vr020509c.ram
I found them here.
He DOES? Why, why, I'll NEVER vote for him again!!!!
I say kick all out in the map you just posted, we know where they are, their privilige to live here should be revoked ASAP. And then seal our borders tight.
Next question: If Bush knew the strike were coming, but could not convince the American people to favor a general war against terrorism in time to stop the development and use of nuclear weapons against the US, would his decision to allow the strike be a good or bad decision with hindsight if the war concludes with victory and no nuclear strike?
I have always found it hard to believe that the Pentagon can be so easily attacked, considering it must have the most heavily defended airspace in the world. I would imagine that under that beautiful grass, there are pop up AA guns that surround the entire edifice. If not, we have complete idiots for generals. I also imagine that fighter jets can be over the Pentagon to defend it within two or three minutes of notice to do so. However, it was nevertheless hit in just that spot which was just reinforced against such attacks and had the fewest people inside the entire building in that area. How strange and coincidental this has always seemed to me.
Now, as a very hard core realist, I do not hate Bush if it turned out he knew. I do however, hate the fact he is not prosecuting this war with every available asset we have--deportations, tactical nuclear weapons, temporary internment of nonresident aliens, inspections of every box and person that enters this country, even if it means a civilian draft, etc. Rather, he seems intent on running as tepid a war as possible and trying to piss off as few people as possible and hope that we don't get hit rather than flat out guaranteeing it with the appropriate tactics. If we are at war, then let us act like warriors. If we are not, then let us forget this play and go home the wiser for the lesson.
Outstanding post.
Ditto and Kudos.
What are your thought on this? Especially the part where the reporter becomes concerned and it is basically let known that the FBI/CIA could not launch any investigation of 'individuals.' What kind of crap is that?
Your argument for Triangulation is noted, but I do not believe it is what's best for the Country. You assume it is the best strategy for winning the election and retaining Power, however it doesn't do much good for ratcheting back the Power and Scope of the Federal Leviathan. That should be the Right's ultimate goal, IMHO, not simply retaining Power. What good is Power when we continue to enact the Left's Agenda on so many fronts?
"Our entire political system was based on the dominance of the center. It takes 60 votes in the Senate. It takes the Senate, the House, the President, and Supreme Court to make major changes in our nation. We have a stable government because it is biased for the views of the center."
Less than 50% of the American people vote, and I believe a good majority of the non-voters are folks who don't feel they need an ever-expanding Federal Bureaucracy like we've had for the last 70 years. If the GOP could capitalize on Dubyuh's popularity and run on an aggressive agenda for empowering States, Localities, and Individuals while decreasing the Scope of the inefficient and ineffectual Federal Bureaucracy, it is my opinion that we could attract a good number of non-voters while energizing those on the Right who tend to sit out elections wherein they believe the RATS and the GOP are all-too-similar.
"In this most evenly divided political time in our history, the candidates and party that most runs to the center will win.The winner will then move the nation slightly left or slightly right depending on who wins."
Seriously, when was the last time Federal Spending as a Percentage of Gross Domestic Product decreased in the last 30 years?! The Fed's share of the National Pie continues to grow regardless of who wins elections...it's time we started ratcheting spending down for a change.
FReegards...MUD
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