Pubs are running from Bush

NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/politics/12repubs.html?ex=1142744400&en=211ccebe5bfe6714&ei=5009&partner=MSN_NYTHOME

Bush's Troubles Weigh Heavily as Republicans Meet

By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: March 12, 2006

MEMPHIS, March 11 — Republicans gathered here this weekend acutely concerned with the elections ahead and distressed by the White House's performance since President Bush's re-election. They listened as a parade of prospective presidential candidates wrestled with how much to associate their campaigns with an increasingly unpopular sitting president.

In interviews, officials attending the Southern Republican Leadership Conference here described themselves as shaken by mistakes that have afflicted the White House, culminating with the collapse of the deal to allow a Dubai company to manage six American port terminals. Several urged the president to bring in new advisers to avoid losses in the midterm elections ahead and three fallow years in the White House.

Reflecting the political anxiety heading toward the 2008 election, the party's prospective presidential candidates, who spoke before about 2,000 here on Friday and Saturday, varied markedly in their handling of Mr. Bush as they dealt with what will clearly be a central strategic challenge for them.

Republicans said the complication for these candidates was that Mr. Bush remained highly popular with the party's conservative base, even in the face of deepening concerns across the electorate about his government and his policies.

They're all trying to divorce themselves from Bush, and yet they call themselves Republicans.

Right now, they're probably drawing straws to see who will get stuck with Bush at some campaign appearance. They all know having Bush show up at your fund-raiser is the Kiss of Death.....

but Bush is going to go out there and help his buddies out, because he's delusional and he doesn't know he's radioactive.

So someone's gonna get stuck with him....HA HA

Convention when the new nominee accepts....hehehe

:sarcasm:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06061/663386.stm

Bush coming to Pittsburgh raise money for Santorum
Thursday, March 02, 2006

By James O'Toole, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

President Bush is expected to be in Pittsburgh later this month to help U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum raise money to defend his Senate seat against an anticipated challenge from Democratic state Treasurer Bob Casey Jr.

"urged the president to bring in new advisers to avoid losses in the midterm"

They should have impeached his ass for lying about the war.....

are onto that.