Waking up

[Rigs11]

Poll: Bush would lose an election if held this year

(CNN) -- A majority would vote for a Democrat over President Bush if an election were held this year, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Tuesday.

In the latest poll, 55 percent of the respondents said that they would vote for the Democratic candidate if Bush were again running for the presidency this year.

Thirty-nine percent of those interviewed said they would vote for Bush in the hypothetical election.

The latest poll results, released Tuesday, were based on interviews with 1,008 adults conducted by telephone October 21-23.

In the poll, 42 percent of those interviewed approved of the way the president is handling his job and 55 percent disapproved. In the previous poll, released October 17, 39 percent approved of Bush's job performance -- the lowest number of his presidency -- and 58 percent disapproved.

However, all the numbers are within the poll's sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, so it's possible that the public's opinion has not changed at all.

More than half, 57 percent, said they don't agree with the president's views on issues that are important to them, while 41 percent said their views are in alignment with those of Bush on important issues.
Democrats preferred on issues

On separate issues, a majority of those questioned felt the Democrats could do a better job than Republicans at handling health care (59 percent to 30 percent), Social Security (56 percent to 33 percent), gasoline prices (51 percent to 31 percent) and the economy (50 percent to 38 percent).

Forty-six percent also believed Democrats could do better at handling Iraq, while 40 percent said the GOP would do better.

In 2003, 53 percent said Republicans would better handle Iraq and only 29 percent believed the Democrats would do better.

The only issue on which Republicans came out on top was in fighting terrorism: 49 percent said the GOP is better at it, while 38 percent said the Democrats are.

And there was a dramatic shift downward in the latest poll, compared with September, in the percentage of people who said that it was a mistake to send U.S. troops to Iraq.

This time, 49 percent said it was a mistake, versus 59 percent who felt that way last month.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/...ush/index.html

[DBruleU]

ha, really, he'd lose it this year? Who woulda thunk that! Too bad you guys and your smear machines werent quick enough to think of bringing all these indictments last year.

[Rigs11]

Originally Posted by DBruleU

ha, really, he'd lose it this year? Who woulda thunk that! Too bad you guys and your smear machines werent quick enough to think of bringing all these indictments last year.

Figures that since those crooks are finally getting what they deserve you call it smearing.What world are you living in?If anyone did any smearing it was that circus that you call an administration.That POS Rove smeared Mcain and Kerry alike, both men who fought for this country. Unlike that moron in the white house. Looks like Rove is gonna get his though.

[gunns]

Originally Posted by DBruleU

ha, really, he'd lose it this year? Who woulda thunk that! Too bad you guys and your smear machines werent quick enough to think of bringing all these indictments last year.

No, the only smear machines last year were in Bush's camp. Now people have figured out that's all it was, smears, that very little of what Bush has said and done was the truth. And it is too bad this wasn't found out last year before so many people made such a huge mistake.

Oh yeah if you want to see a huge smear, with plenty of money spent doing it, look at the one done on Clinton....for a bj. Huge crime.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by Rigs11

Figures that since those crooks are finally getting what they deserve you call it smearing.What world are you living in?

He's living in a world called "Planet Bush."

Here's why:

With all the internal dissent and alleged corruption (growing more and more unalleged every day), there are still a few Bushies left (under 40%) who continue to hang on by a thread to Republican talking points.

Which begs the question:

Why?

The answer may be found in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Bush apologists are like drunks who won't stop hanging on to the bottle until they find out that what's in the bottle is killing them. They could have a thousand bad days and nights, but they wake up every morning... or afternoon, and are willing to buy any twisted logic that says they can still drink. It's why Hannity and O'Reilly and Limbaugh exist. They're just your friendly neighborhood bartender who tells you that it's everyone else who's wrong. How 'bout another shot?

Why do these Bushies continue to drink from the partisan flask?

First of all, it feels good to be told that you're right. If they thought differently they'd have to acknowledge that everything they believed has been wrong. Some would rather die first. Problem is...you don't die first. You die last. Then it's too late. Still, to so many, dying would seem to be preferable to admitting to a problem-and that, as much as anything else, says that they're not so much Republican as much as they are sick.

But there is still hope: there is a cure for the disease of George Bush's Republicanism.

Here are a few simple suggestions so that you never have to vote Republican again.

1. You have to admit that you are powerless over George Bush -- that he's made your life unmanageable and many other lives dead.

2. You came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity-even if it's a woman who tried like hell to establish Universal Healthcare, which with today's out-of-control medical costs and unaffordable health insurance proves how shortsighted you were to condemn her for what she tried to do.

And while at it, you must also admit that it does take a village.

3. You made a decision to turn your will and your life over to the care of a Democratic Congress, which certainly can't do any worse than the sitting one and will not be a rubber stamp to this president.

4. You must make a searching and fearless moral inventory of yourself, revealing all the people you voted for or listened to on the radio, who, while you knew they were lying to you, you kept on buying what they were selling you.

You must also agree that oral sex, even if you lie about it, is not all that bad, but that lying us into war is.

5. You admit to God (if you have one), to yourself and to another human being the exact nature of your wrongs.

And you can't leave out the fact that you really didn't believe that John Kerry volunteered for Vietnam war duty because he wanted to pad his resume -- and that if the guy you did vote for, who left his National Guard post to work on some guy's political campaign during wartime, had been a Democrat, you would have been all over him for being a lying coward of privilege.

6. You were entirely ready to have Barbara Boxer remove all these defects of character.

7. You humbly asked Howard Dean to remove your shortcomings.

8. You made a list of all persons you had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Especially Al Gore and Gray Davis.

9. You made direct amends to such people wherever possible.

This includes everyone you told that Rush Limbaugh was funny.

10. You continued to take personal inventory and when you were wrong promptly admitted it.

Better yet, just find out what Bill O'Reilly says to do and do the opposite.

11. You sought through prayer and registration to improve your conscious contact with the environment, and if you do believe in intelligent design, praying only for the knowledge that God probably didn't want us to kill off most of what he had designed.

12. Having had a political awakening as the result of these steps, you try to carry this message to other Republicans while following these principles in all local and national elections.

I hope that there are some brother and sister Republicans out there who will join us on the path to political serenity.

And now. Let's end today's meeting with a prayer of my choice:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change and change the Senate and the House in 2006.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Bush fans dwindling, delusional

DETROIT -- The last semblance of broad public support for President George W. Bush is the diminishing number of Americans who continue to believe his administration does a good job with national security. "Bush makes me feel safer," they foolishly proclaim.

Those who advance just slightly beyond their visceral emotions and think at all are arriving at an inescapable conclusion: George W. Bush's policies fail to protect us and his approach to national security is a disaster.

The testimony and evidence for that conclusion comes, not from the Democrats, the left, pacifists or anti-imperialists, but rather from seasoned military people and national security experts who served in the administrations of Bush the Elder and his impetuous, reckless son, Bush the Lesser.

Continues: http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher236.html

[El Guapo]

you demo's could vote for him all you want, the supreme court would just overrule you.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]