According to much of the conservative media, President Bush’s anemic numbers are a Democrat/media generated phenomenon. According to them, the Iraq War and it’s chief provocateur are both quite popular. Yet, you only have to look at where the President is campaigning to get an idea of how much of a lame duck George W. Bush is. Recently Bush has gone to Sugar Land, TX, Montana, and plans to visit Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, and Kansas – and even in those states he’s mostly visiting rural areas. What all the locations have in common are that they have been pretty strong Republican areas now in danger of being lost. The President doesn’t dare venture out of his comfort zone to regions like the Northeast or MidAtlantic where simply being a Republican has made candidates endangered, much less to receive the Godfather-style embrace of death from the wheezing Bush machine.
Speaking of the kiss of death…Do you have a list of where old Hillary, Kennedy, Kerry, and Pelosi will be campaigning the rest of this week and weekend? Damned if I can’t find a single campaign stop for any of these radioactive poverty pimps.
That’s a very crass way to depict them, william.
“Poverty pimps” slur aside, none of those people have been elected as President of THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES. And none of them have approval ratings in the low 40s either. Of those up for election this year – Clinton, Kennedy, and Pelosi – all will win by healthy margins.
I’m sitting in the Denver airport waiting for a flight west.
Next to me was group of people are flying home to Montana.
I ask if any of them are voting for Tester. Although they are strangers to each other all but 1 says they have already voted for Jon. When the outcast remains silent they start preaching the virtues of Tester.
I hope this is a sign of things to come.
Yesterday I heard a report from the BBC about Dear Leader Bush at one of his rallies in Georgia. In what the droll British reporter described as a “warm up act,” some preacher got up and quoted Proverbs 29:2 “When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.” which really got the crowd into a frenzy as Bush got up and shouted his usual slogans; he’s sounding kind of hoarse, and I laughed at his fake Texas accent. Later the reporter asked some of them why they liked Bush so much. He loves Jesus; he’s a Christian gentleman; he’s “done a fanstastic job running the country.” He then asked some of them what they thought would happen if the Dems won control of Congress. In their deep-Georgia accents, the people said “Dies-aster. One word, dies-aster.” Another said “‘Mur’ka’ll go raht down’the tubes.” “The most telling one was “yore taxe’s’ll go up, and we’ll lose th’ ‘Raq wahr.” Glad I don’t live in Georgia; even Utah isn’t that bad.