Bush's Poll Numbers: I wouldn't be all too upset...

[Writer]

I don't agree that Bush's poll numbers are "surging" as a few headlines have claimed; nor are they truly rising. A tick or two up within the margin of error seems to be the general rule for now.

But I suppose, because they dropped precipitously this year, that we are disappointed that they have hit a soft landing.

We shouldn't be. I believe that they'll drop again, although with two caveats. Frankly they're still historically low and I don't see him reaching 50% numbers (as a general rule) any day soon.

Here's my first thought: We will have to wait until after 2006, when he gets lazy and feels he doesn't need to impress voters for votes. Between then and now, they will work overtime to lipstick the pig and try to make Iraq and Katrina look something other than the humanitarian slaughters they were.

Here's my second thought: The Administration needs to achieve a new low. After Katrina, I frankly think (and still do) that I witnessed a type of negligent genocide of poor Black Americans in New Orleans. I think Bush faces a date in the Hague. He should. His criminally flippant attitude toward human life is abhorrent and deserving of criminal prosecution. We live in the darkest of modern days in America, but in order for his poll numbers to get any lower, he needs to best what he did in Katrina. It will be painful to witness, but Bush is a malignant narcissist and if we think we've seen the worst, think again.

Just my two cents. :)

Writer.

[liberal N proud]

1. Just a bump before the fall.

[Writer]

2. Thaaaaaaaaanks!

:thumbsup: LOL

[Ready4Change]

3. I agree. Even running downhill is tiring.

People are just catching their breath before admitting that Bush really out to be in the 20's.

[ladjf]

4. The only way America could regain it's former position of

respect would be to turn Bush over to the world court for trial. However, there are many more criminals involved in the current operations who are not being singled out for trials.

[waiting for hope]

5. I'm waiting for Fitzgerald...

hopefully a Rove squeeze will drop them lower...

[AX10]

9. A Jan/Feb Rove indictment along with a spike in oil prices...

and a failure to bring about a peaceful resolution Iraq will drop him even lower.

[MrBenchley]

6. Jack Abramoff was shoveling money to him....

and the whole Abramoff mess has yet to really hit the headlines...

And wait until the Tom Delay trial starts...

All GOP figures are going to see their polls dip further then...

And don't forget how many Republican candidates are desperately trying to keep away from him....

Even when he starts bringing home the troops next year that he was supposed to bring home long ago, I don't see it helping him.

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Wait a few weeks

Mid-winter is never a good time for politicians, and if this winter is even a little chilly, Bush's positive numbers will be down around the Farenheit temperatures.

Not only will fuel prices hit him, but also these scandals where the main action is being put off until after the Holiday hubbubs. Heating programs have been decimated, the survivors of Katrina are going to be down hard on their luck, the Iraqi insurgency is going to fight the fledgeling democracy tooth-and-nail, and having half of one's private political staff under indictment will turn Bush's life into a very unpleasant experience, indeed.

That "new low" will probably be around 15%, around mid-April. The summer rebound may take him all the way back to 40%, but only if all those indictments are dismissed. I think that Team Bush is going to be in the position Gorbachev and Yeltsin found themselves in at the ends of their own terms -- only Bush is evil, where Gorby and Yeltsin were simply not able to stop the cynicism of the Soviet/Russian people.

--p!

[TNMOM]

8. the administration is in its last throes...