Why does rhetoric from strong Democrats about the administration’s untrustworthiness ring true? Because most of them already believe it
A majority of U.S. adults believe the Bush administration generally misleads the public on current issues, while fewer than a third of Americans believe the information provided by the administration is generally accurate, the latest Harris Interactive poll finds.
Woe to the Republicans who try to run in 2006 and 2008 on Bush’s record of honesty and integrity, Dugger, ye old shortsighted one.
Then that clearly explains why Bush and the Republicans lost the election in 2004.
Man, those polls are just killing us Republicans. All we have is the Presidency and both houses of Congress, but the Democrats and their mainstream media friends have the POLLS!!! And if that is not enough, those polls clearly indicate Bush won’t be re-elected a third time.
Dugger, Alas, Alack! Woe is me!
You got the ‘old’ part right.
Dugger
Yes, old and afraid of the world.
I have no problem with Dugger waxing wistfully about the good old days of 2004, when they won the election and the bloom was still on the rose. Nostalgia is a fine thing.
The rest of us can enjoy current events.
The reason it didn’t work in 2004 is because Democrats acted like whipped kitties, never actually impugning the GOP. And yes, those polls do hurt – Bush isn’t running for re-election but the presidency is about pushing an agenda, not just keeping the seat warm till ‘08. He can’t do that, and he can’t lead his party when the nation continues to give him a vote of no confidence.
I believe Kerry just came out and said something like the only exit strategy in Iraq is victory. I can see a real split within the Dems in 2008 – similar to 1968 wherein moderate liberals like LBJ and ‘Ubert ‘Oratio ‘Umphrey were reviled by the party’s left wing over the war (of course, it was arguably LBJs war – this one ‘belongs’ comparably to the Republican Dike Dynamiter). The left swallowed their bile in 2004 and accepted Kerry because he wasn’t Bush-Lied – there will be no such major hate focus in 2008.
Dugger, To be heard Outside the Cow Palace, sometime 2008: “Hey! Hey! Hillary, Hey! How many babies you killed today?!!”
Can we all agree that either Dugger is off his meds or that he’s simply gone completely bonkers?
When you’ve thrown what passes for your moral conviction behind what turns out to be completely false, and you insist on showing your (e-)face in the midst of those who’ve been telling you so all along, what do you have left but to dance and giggle on the graves of dead U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians?
The Bush administration is torn between backpedaling and banzai, and the confusion has their diehard sycophants pirouetting like ballerinas on LSD. It’s no wonder some of them are looking dizzy right now.
Oh, right. Thanks Alex.
These numbers looked VERY different in November 2004. They were almost reversed, actually. Bush’s honesty rating was over 60% in November 2004, even if his overall approval rating hovered at 50%. In fact, Bush’s “honesty” was a big reason people voted for him. They “knew where he stood” etc. Why do you think there was such pushback on the charges that Bush misled on pre-war intel? Because the polls showed the public catching on. Without the honesty factor in his corner, Bush is toast. November 2005 is very different than November 2004. Can Bush regain that trust by November 2006? If not, Bush will have a Democratic Congress facing him in 2007.
heheeh….wait a second…the vaunted polls also said that 70% of the american people thought saddam and Iraq had something to do with 9/11 right?
So, are the polls all-seeing and omniscient demonstrating the wisdom of the American people….or, are they absolutely meaningless or just demonstrating that most americans are mindless sheep led around by whatever the MSM tells them?
“… led around by whatever the MSM tells them?”
I beleive it was Vice President Dick Cheney spreading this lie through the MSM pedro. And the public bought it, but now they understand they were sold a bill of goods, hence the headline here: Scales fall from the eyes. The polls don’t tell us what the truth is, they tell us what the public thinks the truth is. Sometimes the public is going to be right, sometimes they are going to be wrong. When the vice president of the United States says something, the American people would like the believe he is telling the truth. When they find he was lying to them, well, we’ll see how they respond in 2006.
Whenever a republican proclaims that Democrats can’t win elections, just remind them what happened in Nov 2005. That ought to shut them up!