GOP starting to learn that Bush is the problem.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/2441635

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Like antsy dogs before an earthquake, some Republicans sensed trouble. They were barking about the deficit, chasing their tails over the immigration proposal. A number had even begun baying about Vice President Dick Cheney. But when the tremor struck Monday (on the evening news) and the strong aftershocks continued Tuesday (in the morning newspapers), the party seemed astonished at the real cause of their prescient unease: President Bush.

The White House and Republicans came face-to-face with a pair of new national surveys that not only show Democrat John Kerry leading the president in the horse-race question (For whom would you vote if the election were held today?) but also find Bush trailing even more distantly in other key measures of voters' underlying sentiments. Taken together, the surveys are much more dire news than the White House had been predicting and for which it has been struggling to steel the faithful.

Perhaps the worst news for Bush and the Republicans was a question in the Washington Post-ABC survey (1,202 adults, Thursday-Sunday) that asked: "Which of these two statements comes closest to your own views: A. After four years of George W. Bush, we need to elect a president who can set the nation in a new direction. B. We need to keep the country moving in the direction Bush has taken us." Same direction got 41 percent, new direction 57 percent. Two percent, bless their indecisive hearts, expressed no opinion
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they are blinded. They believe their own propaganda. So it comes as a shock that most people see through the BS.

Bush is a pathetic loser, and it is amazing that they would think anyone would not see through him...

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They think that swinging an ax well at dead wood or running 7-minute miles is a good indicator of probability of success. If they had looked no further than his track record with his companies and the Texas budget (bye-bye surplus!), they would have seen which direction we would be headed in less than four years.

Idiots.

their wish list, and as progressives have told them for decades, it's a disaster.

Bush is not the problem.
Capitalism is the problem.

it will mean the disassembly of the RW machine. Of course, in the short run, those of us out of a job are subject to further vilification.

bush is coming down, and if luck is with us, the Senate will fall into Dem hands again. It would be spectacular if the GOP lost the House as well, but the disastrous route this admin has forged, has not hit localities to the extent that the House will turn.

O8)

You see, the angry left was right after all..

It seems, though, that the respondents express some cynicism at the end, where it says they think bush will still win, although by a very narrow margin.

Could also be an expression that they think there is corruption of the voting process.


Cher

If Republicans were to run for office stating their realistic, intended goals - they would never win an election. Not a one. So they must pander to the lowest common denominator with wedge issues like gay bashing and bandering about the "liberal" word assigning to it characteristics of their own demented invention reminiscent of McCarthyistic impressions of a communist plot.

So they must appeal to the armchair warrior who can vicariously blow up foreign military units on TV. They must rely upon the basest sense of greed and the spell of "keep what's yours" and "to hell with the rest".

The formula is so damned predictable.