AP: Strategists: Bush comeback will be tough

[Eugene]

Saturday, November 12, 2005 · Last updated 12:52 a.m. PT

Strategists: Bush comeback will be tough

By TOM RAUM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON -- Other presidents have recovered from ratings slumps like
the one George W. Bush is in right now: Dwight Eisenhower came back
after the Sherman Adams scandal; Ronald Reagan rebounded after
Iran-Contra; Bill Clinton triumphed after Monica Lewinsky.

Republican strategists say Bush, too, has time to snap out of a
three-month run of bad luck and setbacks, including GOP losses Tuesday
in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.

Still, a comeback will be tough, and will get increasingly tougher the
closer the 2006 midterm elections come, strategists in both parties
agree.

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"Unless Bush and his advisers do something dramatic to reposition the
administration and stop the slide in public approval, they're going
to find they have very few friends who want to come to the White
House, let alone friends who want them to come to their districts,"
Light said. "And that's about the worst possible position for a
president to be in."

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Full article: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151AP_Bush_Comeback_Or_Not.html

[Quakerfriend]

1. ratings slump, bad luck, set backs...

these terms offend me.

None of these begin to relect the utter destruction he has brought to our country and the rest of the world.

I think *co. is HATED much more than we know from any news outlet.

There won't be any "comeback".

[...of J.Temperance]

4. Gore Vidal

This is in reference to Junior being more HATED than the mediawhores are letting on.

I remember an interview with Gore Vidal, it must have been from the latter half of December 2000. Anyhow, this was three weeks even before Junior had set foot to squat in the WH.

Gore Vidal said that Junior would leave office as THE MOST HATED *resident in American history. That Junior would leave office as THE MOST HATED *resident by the American people.

I believed Gore Vidal then...and here we are five years later and that prophecy is playing out in all it's full glory.

[petgoat]

8. Gore Vidal has signed the WorldCantWait statement

The Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime

Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.

Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.

Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.

Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.

Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.

Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.

Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.

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History is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.

The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!


http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1


WorldCantWait is collecting funds to organize massive demonstrations in DC in January.

[bluestateguy]

2. Unlike Reagan, he's not a "Great Communicator"

I didn't like most of what he said, but reagan was a talented speaker, and that worked to his benefit when the chips were down for him.

Bush the Junior is no Reagan, and the conservatives know it.

[Melsky]

3. bad luck

that is beyond offensive that they term this as "bad luck". It is the consequences of his actions coming home to roost. This is not bad luck, any more than if I rob a bank and get caught that my problems are due only to my "bad luck".

[gizmo1979]

5. He is incapable

of repositioning.They can only stay the course,and rail against their opponents with smear campaigns.You can tell by the Veterans day speech that he sure doesn't expect to change.

[Skittles]

6. exactly

again, I'll post this excellent analysis: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/bushs-approval-ratings_b_10291.html

[cliss]

9. Yes, I agree.

That's all they can do. They are like a One-Trick pony circus. They are simply incapable of doing anything other than their campaign of destruction.

The most glaring example would be hurricane Katrina. Bush showed exactly who he is, in his glaring ugliness. He continue his vacation, while people drowned. He went to a birthday party for John McCain, and licked the frosting off his fingers and sang "Happy Birthday" while elderly people went down for the last time. The rest of them are exactly the same.

When a real crisis hits, they probably sit there and blink their eyes, in the board room. They pour another glass of Perrier. They are simply - clueless.

[yellowcanine]

7. What's he going to do, admit he screwed up big-time? Even if he did that

I wouldn't trust him.