Bush at 33
...And this one's a Fox News poll. Over the last few weeks, most of the polls have had him trending around 35-38 percent. OK, I'm sure that, as these are trending polls, we're looking at a small, statistically insignificant sample. But Fox had him at 39 percent just a month ago.
What I can't understand is why it dropped recently, and what finally got through to those 6 percent. We're talking diehards here. They didn't abandon their guy in the face of Cheney shooting a guy in the face, Jeff Gannon or the Plame leak. They stuck with him after lies about our reasons for going to Iraq. Through Enron, Scooter Libby and nuclear saber-rattling from Iran and North Korea. They weren't concerned with torture at Guantanemo, wiretapping of Americans or a relentless effort to unbalance the system of checks and balances.
So what did it? I've tried to look at it, and I've got nothing. Somehow, I can't see them crying over the departures of Scottie and Andrew Card or the demotion of Karl Rove. The only thing I can see is that Bush has been on TV a lot in the last few weeks. I've watched his canned town meetings, the circular logic in his defense of Rumsfeld and red-herring arguments in favor of the war in Iraq. Every time he appears on TV, he's losing ground.
So I've got a prescription for the President. Get thee to Crawford post haste! Clear some brush. Play some golf and learn to play that guitar with the presidential seal on it. Your place in history depends on it!
What I can't understand is why it dropped recently, and what finally got through to those 6 percent. We're talking diehards here. They didn't abandon their guy in the face of Cheney shooting a guy in the face, Jeff Gannon or the Plame leak. They stuck with him after lies about our reasons for going to Iraq. Through Enron, Scooter Libby and nuclear saber-rattling from Iran and North Korea. They weren't concerned with torture at Guantanemo, wiretapping of Americans or a relentless effort to unbalance the system of checks and balances.
So what did it? I've tried to look at it, and I've got nothing. Somehow, I can't see them crying over the departures of Scottie and Andrew Card or the demotion of Karl Rove. The only thing I can see is that Bush has been on TV a lot in the last few weeks. I've watched his canned town meetings, the circular logic in his defense of Rumsfeld and red-herring arguments in favor of the war in Iraq. Every time he appears on TV, he's losing ground.
So I've got a prescription for the President. Get thee to Crawford post haste! Clear some brush. Play some golf and learn to play that guitar with the presidential seal on it. Your place in history depends on it!
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