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Miss Bush Yet?

02 Sep

George W. Bush: Miss Me Yet?

For almost 10 years, the DNC and their cronies in the leftist mainstream media have been villainizing George W. Bush.s

No doubt this has influenced people’s political perceptions – I once had someone tell me they blamed Bush for trouble they had finding a parking space. This also likely helped give Obama the presidency as he and others cast his opponent, John McCain as a 3rd term of Bush.

That Obama and the democrat’s politics of personal destruction have a strong influence on how the citizens of America and the wold perceive American politics. It’s nothing new – every strong opponent of the Democrats since Ronald Regan has been attacked as stupid and incompetent. Think about it – what comes to mind as the attacks on Bush, Gingrich, Quayle, Palin?

Obama and the DNC recognize the effectiveness. Two years into his presidency, Obama continues to blame every problem on his Republican predecessor. However, the excuse seems to be getting worn out.

Ohio went for Obama in 2008. A survey by liberal polling agency PPP was just released shows that now, as Obama is less of a mystery and we all know more about him, 52% of Ohioans wish that Bush was still in office, verses 40% who prefer Obama.

While Bush can’t run again for presidency, the poll is relevant because Obama’s incessant finger-pointing at Bush in his ongoing blame game that he plays with the rest of his party that leads both houses and the majority of media outlets.

The personal attacks, name-calling, and finger-pointing works for the Democrats. If they weren’t doing this, the numbers would be dramatically more in favor of Republicans. As it is, Republicans have a 10 point lead on a generic ballot per Gallup, another polling agency that leans left.

Is this an indication that the finger-pointing and personal attacks have stopped working? That’s now how the democrats will see things. They’ll believe that they aren’t blaming and attacking people enough. Expect the name-calling and “politics of personal destruction,” as the Clintons used to say, to escalate as we approach November and future elections.

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  • nathan

    If name-calling were something that only Democrats did, I’d give some props to your equation about the poll in Ohio. Since name-calling and demonizing is a common practice throughout American political history, I wouldn’t read too much into this poll one way or another. It might also be good to remember that this is a poll, not an official vote of any sort. Statistics like these can be made to say anything when all they really say is that the small cross-section of people polled here would wish for Bush to be in office. Also, Ohio has, especially in recent years, been a state that could go either way. Given this, I suspect that you could do this poll again and get different numbers with ease.

    Finally, Palin has earned her reputation among Democrats. When you get on national television and say that you read all the newspapers and can’t manage to mention some books that you’ve been reading, you’re a PR nightmare, even if you’re intelligent in real life. Then to blame Katie Couric for her unfair question about books…well, I’d still like to know what she reads. The others you mentioned are indeed intelligent people who have a lot to offer us.

    • Certainly – I don’t put a lot of stock in polls either. People are fickle, and polls vary. Worth pointing out again is that this is Kos’ polling agency – it’s not Rasmussen, which by focusing on likely voters tends to be more conservative.

      I agree, Palin’s interview with Couric was very poorly executed. I’m not sure how much of this falls on Palin herself and how much falls on the McCain campaign’s deal with Couric’s network for how long the interview would be, how much would be cut, etc. I thought I read that it was 7 hours of straight interviewing, with obviously relatively small clips broadcast. If that’s accurate, then I’m not sure I can blame someone too much for spacing out after 7 straight hours on camera.

      While name-calling does have a long history, it seems that Liberals are more likely to call someone stupid than Conservatives are. Obama has had plenty of Bush-like misstatements (from saying he’s a Muslim to saying that he’s been to 57 states, etc.) and yet I don’t hear people calling Obama a dummy. A socialist, certainly, which at least gives you something to talk about – are his policies more socialist than the alternative. Calling someone a stupid-head, the primary counter-argument to conservatives everywhere, is a discussion stopper.

    • Rob Green

      The Katie Couric interview has been analyzed since then. What was promised as a lightweight chat about managing career with kids was nothing short of an ambush. Answers were edited to remove all substance. Outtakes of Couric from this time indicate that Couric was very complicit in the hatchet work on that interview. And… show Couric to be something of a lightweight herself.

    • Thanks, do you have a link for more info about the Couric interview information by any chance?

  • I did not know that Obama said he had been to 57 states! I think Joey thought there were 57 states too!

  • Lori Engel

    Yes 57 states( which I believe is how many Islamic states there are) and much the same way Bush pronounced strategy wrong (strategory), Obama has called colonoscopies collinoscopies yet no one is calling him a dummy in fact most people defend his idiocracy. Even when conservatives were making fun of his teleprompter people defended him. I think this goes back to the how to fail at arguing blogs, the left consistency forgives and forgets left indiscretions, yet when called upon they can remember every dumb thing Bush said and want to tar and feather republican governors and senators for their indiscretions.

    I do find it interesting that more and more people are wishing Bush was back in office considering he was the “most hated” president of all time.

    • Rob Green

      Or the time Obama tried to enter the WH from a garden and chose a window instead of a door. Gaffs are common and mistakes don’t mean much. But they’re not paraded in front of the public by the press, when it comes to Obama.

      Which is why the press cannot be trusted.

      I hear conservatives say Palin would have no chance if she ran. And frankly, I think those who say that are believing the media that she is a lightweight. But I don’t think she is, by a long shot.

    • I’ll post the other Obama gaffes in another post sometime.

  • Samantha

    Bush was also the most loved president of all time (since they have been polling). I loved him more as people hated him- Although I voted for him in the 2000 election, I did not vote for him in the Rep. Primaries. I voted for Alan Keyes (Where was Oprah when he was running? ). I initially thought Bush was floating on Daddy’s coat tails but I came to see him as a man with integrity who did what he believed was right, regardless of what others thought.