No quit: the campaign to boost Bush

[kentuck]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19861.html

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Even though Bush is keeping quiet in Texas before heading out on a lucrative speaking tour, an informal network of former aides is keeping his views in the political bloodstream, defending his legacy in TV appearances and backgrounding reporters about his record.

Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer calls the Bush pundits “a loose confederation of people united in our belief in what President Bush did, and we’re freer now to talk about some things than we used to be — good and bad.”

The Bush defense forces include Fleischer; former press secretary Dana Perino; Bush political czar Karl Rove, who has contracts with Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek; economics guru Tony Fratto; the prolific Peter Wehner, former director of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives; and the graceful speechwriter Michael Gerson, who writes an opinion column for The Washington Post.

The former aides are armed with many of the same arguments that they tried out on reporters when they strolled the hallways of the West Wing.

When CNN’s Larry King recently asked what Fleischer considered to be a hostile question about tax cuts, the president’s first press secretary pulled out an ancient talking point and reminded viewers that the nation “had a record-breaking 55 straight months of job creation and economic job growth” on Bush’s watch.

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[Wapsie B]

1. Lucrative speaking tour?

Who on god's green earth would pay to hear * stumble and stammer up on stage? Can there be that many Chamber of Commerce and banker conventions that would want him? :shrug:

[yourout]

5. The "My Pet Goat" book endorsement tour.

[Magleetis]

2. How many conservative idiots

does it take to polish a turd?

:shrug:

[tridim]

3. Just a heads up on the "polish a turd" idea..

It only takes one person. Really! Gotta love the Mythbusters. :)

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd.html

[kentuck]

4. Does turdblossom have that recipe??

:-)

[HughBeaumont]

6. "55 straight mo . . ." wha . . . HUH?

Reality dictates otherwise. Republicans and facts need to go out on a blind date.

[spanone]

7. the people ain't buying what these criminals are sellin'