Bush needs to acknowledge WHY polls shift the way they do.

[Parisle]

--- In the post 9-11 patriotic fervor which helped fuel the disingenuous run-up to war, Bush could, in fact, claim that a majority of citizens were behind him. He launched his PNAC gameplan,... things didn't go according to plan,... and then things started to fall apart. The polls started their downward spiral.

--- But why? Was it because of some bizarre sense of "economy" regarding the war? (Okay,... 2,000 dead,... that's all we were in for.) Was it a result of straight-up intellectual reasoning? (Okay, this isn't working out,.. maybe we were wrong.) Perhaps there is a bit of that sort of sentiment behind Bush's precipitous drop in the polls.

--- But the PRIMARY reason that Bush now has virtually three quarters of the electorate lined up opposed to his "handling of Iraq," ...and the reason that the GOP took a drubbing in the 2006 elections... is simply this. More and more people realized that they had been lied to. Bush can deny it,... the MSM can ignore it,... but people have a sense and an instinct about these things. Rove's dictum of "plausible deniability" does not measure up to "beyond reasonable doubt," and THAT is the standard we apply to presidents.