NY Times: Bush Shows Potency in Rallying the Faithful

[ECH1969]

For all the talk about the political baggage that President Bush carries this year, his stop in Indiana on Saturday showed that he could still turn on — and, White House strategists say, turn out — the most faithful party voters.

Women screamed his name, men chanted “U.S.A.,” and no one doubted that the 4,000 people packed into a high school gymnasium for a rally in Sellersburg were primed to urge friends and neighbors to vote on Nov. 7 for Representative Mike Sodrel, who won his seat by just 1,300 votes two years ago.

The appearances buck the conventional wisdom that Mr. Bush is such a pariah to Republicans that he cannot be of much use on the campaign trail. White House strategists say they have carefully selected several make-or-break races in which the president’s presence can still make a difference.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/us/politics/30bush.html

[blogslut]

1. Potent

...for getting rich cronies to fork over the bucks. Like that's hard considering that big business will have to actually obey laws and pay taxes when the Dems win. Fork away corporate whores! Your money won't save you this time!

[EFerrari]

3. I think they mean, he's screwing the right over one last time. n/t

[Erika]

12. They've mutually screwed each other

It's a sick co-dependency thing.

[K8-EEE]

2. Ewww! Look at all those freeper types....

But really it looks a bit sparse for Chimpy compared to his flight suit daze, er, days.

[lovuian]

4. He's Noah before the flood

He's the Chosen One didn't you know that

[alittlelark]

5. BULLSHIT. Same w/ Venezuela hacking the Sequoia machines

this is all a set up for the 7th. It is painfully obvious. It is blatant.



IT IS EMBARASSING.

[NanceGreggs]

6. "Women screamed his name, men chanted “U.S.A. ..."

The usual fare from the hard-core, hand-picked crowd that comes out for these things.

Too bad they don't put him out on the average American street - I'm sure he'd hear a few choice words that aren't quite so supportive.

[Old and In the Way]

7. He's a very impotent guy.

He'd make a great Falwell-class con-evangelist.

[Erika]

11. He wasn't a Yale cheerleader for nothing

Too bad he chose to cheerlead for only the minority of Americans.

[Straight Shooter]

8. Wow. Just look at those Christians, their hearts so filled with the love of Christ.

:sarcasm:

[ECH1969]

15. yup

[Erika]

9. I imagine those women are part of the minority wanting W

Can you imagine W showing up in any major city without invitations? He made his bed, let him sleep in it.

His legacy will be that he had to hide from mainstream Americans because his policies were so hated.

[Fovea]

10. buck the conventional wisdom

I think I will put my money on the conventional wisdom this time.
Instead of bucking the conventional wisdom, they will Buck Fush.

[GreenTea]

13. There's always that 33% (which are the fearful obedient sheep) ---

Still, it translates into a minority of millions...But try it in a non planned true blue area...

Is this what the media will be reporting when they steal it...that's Roves goal keep Bush playing in front of huge friendly crowds to explain the planned theft...as if that typifies America...makes for good TV and a smokescreen though as they will undoubtedly try and steal to keep their majority...

No other way...

Got to get out the Dem vote, monitor voting places, donate, volunteer at your local Dem HQ for an hour, etc...

Much work to be done in this last week.

[BlooInBloo]

14. Bullshit - TPM has the smackdown of this genius bit of reporting....

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010664.php

"All sorts of articles have been written over the last week or so with one question: Why is Karl Rove so confident? What does he know that the Dems and the pundit-predictors don't?

The answer is really, really simple: nothing. There's not anything he knows. In fact, he's not even confident. It's a bluff.
...
It's the bandwagon effect. Psyche out the other side. Act like you're winning and you'll charge up your activists/voters and demoralize the folks on the other side. Mainly, get the press to believe your hype and they'll do the charging up and demoralizing for you. As it happened, it was a really dumb decision in 2000. If not for faulty ballots and election stealing, Bush would have lost Florida and the presidency. And given the margin, it's at least conceivable that Bush could have won fair and square had he spent the last few days on the ground in Florida."

It's KNOWN bullshit.

The fact that's it's bullshit, and the EXACT MANNER in which it's bullshit isn't news.

Call it "scarecrow campaigning", perhaps. Don't fall for the scarecrow.

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. I would've kicked that lede back to the reporter

It reads like, "W hasn't lost anything. The most deeply disturbed fundies still seek him."

I can't tell if it's serious or a joke.

:shrug:

[bobbie]

17. Ah, the NYT is prepping for the voting day propaganda

Official explanation of GOP wins not reflected in polls, or logic--Bush rallied the faithful.

Yeah, that's it.