*'s rapidly sinking approval rating means what?

[Montauk6]

I guess I'm just nervous that same folks who fell for the "compassionate conservative" drag will be equally susceptible to the "well, * isn't the RIGHT kind of Republican, but <so and so> is."

The true turnaround will be when people wake up to what a horrible package the Goops offer no matter who's doing the selling.

Whuhchall think?

[CO Liberal]

1. We Go to Orange Terror Alert Later This Afternoon

Source: http://www.creativespill.com/

[rurallib]

2. ManDate and Political Capital!

W - the hole package.

[Ken Burch]

11. Remember, Dubya doesn't approve of "ManDates"

'Cause they could lead to gay marriage!

[Roland99]

3. Other - They're pissed about gas prices and fighting in Iraq

$100 if gas were at $1.50/gal those ratings would be >50%.

[sandnsea]

8. Just gas prices

If gas were cheap, the war would be worth it.

[Jacobin]

4. They are grumpy and restless and want a new war that's quick and

easy and cheap where only a lot of brown people get killed and only one or two Murkin hero's get killed....they need a new military football game to cheer about, thump their chests, so they can shout USA USA USA and brag about blowing shit up successfully.

Rumsfeld gave them a quagmire and they are not happy about this.

That plus they want 25 cents a gallon fuel for their SUV's.

Otherwise, they just loooooove old smirky and how he gets them libruls, commies, fags and black folks all riled up.

[Montauk6]

9. Murkin... hee!

[Boo Boo]

5. I voted the second choice, but

I still think it's not quite right. I think the polling data shows that people are unhappy with Bush right now, as per #1, and I think that gas prices are just another straw on the camel's back so to speak, but I really think it's the Shiavo thing that is really creeping people out.

The right wing Christian/Shiavo stuff cuts across party lines, and the polling data is overwhelmingly against the Feds messing with these kinds of decisions. Rove's determination to pander to the Christian right wing between now and '06 is what's really fueling the revolt, IMO.

Bush's approval on various issues fluctuates. People still cut him a lot of slack, and it wouldn't take too much good news from Iraq, for instance, to bump that back up. The gas price thing is something he can't do anything about, in part for ideological reasons, and in part because no matter what he does gas prices won't come back down for a long while---if they come back down at all.

In any case there's a lot of negatives out there right now. Consumer confidence is dropping, Gas prices, Iraq, etc. Add to that the Shiavo fiasco and the Repubs continued sucking up to Christian wingnuts and it's bad news for the 'Pubes in '06. The best part is that I don't think there's anything they can do about it. They've boxed themselves in. They can't move forward on important fiscal and energy policy issues, and they can't back away from the Fundies.

They're screwed. The big question is whether enough voters at the mushy middle will be outraged enough to actually drive to the polls and vote. That's the thing. Big turnout means big gains for the Dems I would think.

[AP]

6. It means little. He's a lame duck. The Republicans could still win in '06

and '08 by running against him. (Remember how Gore sort of ran against Clinton?)

[AP]

7. It means little. He's a lame duck. The Republicans could still win in '06

and '08 by running against him. (Remember how Gore sort of ran against Clinton?)

[Mark E. Smith]

10. Consoviets!

Good one.

[radfringe]

12. bush* doesn't look at polls

when he says he doesn't look at or pay attention to polls it's the same thing as thumbing his nose at America and saying "Who cares what you think."

his daddy got into trouble when it was perceived he was "out of touch" with American people.

Smirk-boy is not only out of touch -- but he doesn't give a flying-crap what people are feeling. His concerns are with financial insitutions, insurance companies, energy industry and other corporations that fund GOP and put money into his pocket.