Crawford, Texas sees decline in tourism

[ck4829]

Near the lone stoplight on Main Street, a for-sale sign hangs from a dusty window where a souvenir shop used to sell cufflinks, cowboy boots and denim shirts emblazoned "The Western White House."

Another gift store across the street is shuttered too, though a sign says it will reopen elsewhere. And the biggest souvenir shop in Crawford is reporting a drop in sales.

The Washington professionals have their polls, their focus groups and their newspaper editorials. But Crawford, the 700-person town where President Bush's ranch is located, has its trinket stores, and they have fallen on hard times, in what some say reflects the president's sinking popularity over the war in Iraq and a daunting influx of anti-war protesters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20070207/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_crawford_bush

[ixion]

1. that's a funny headline

considering Crawford is really no place I would want to consider 'touring'. :rofl:

[Solly Mack]

2. Not so much a decline as just getting back to normal

truth be told...

Who mapped out Crawford as the must see place to visit prior to Bush? And now that he has lost the majority of his supporters (aside from the die hard true-believers), who wants to?

[Pab Sungenis]

4. Crawford is the place to see Bush

because he seems to be there more often than in Washington.

[Solly Mack]

5. That's the truth...

apparently no one wants to see him there though

[Graybeard]

3. "daunting influx of anti-war protesters"...

...blaming it on Cindy Sheehan? Stand up and take a bow Cindy!

[lectrobyte]

6. Yeah, Crawford thought this faux ranch business was going to be like

striking oil or something. Tsk tsk. Everybody knows that the only ones who get rich around shrub are the insiders.