Newsweek: Republican strategists say Bush has time to overcome setbacks

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Bush' plight looks bleak, but others recovered
Republican strategists say president has time to overcome setbacks

By Tom Raum
Updated: 2:17 p.m. ET Nov. 12, 2005



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10014495/

WASHINGTON - Other presidents have recovered from ratings slumps like the one George W. Bush is in right now: Dwight Eisenhower came back after the Sherman Adams scandal; Ronald Reagan rebounded after Iran-Contra; Bill Clinton triumphed after Monica Lewinsky.

Republican strategists say Bush, too, has time to snap out of a three-month run of bad luck and setbacks, including GOP losses Tuesday in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.

Still, a comeback will be tough, and will get increasingly tougher the closer the 2006 midterm elections come, strategists in both parties agree. Bush might want look back to successful predecessors for pointers. He could shake up his White House staff, as Eisenhower and Reagan did in their troubled second terms. Or he could follow Clinton’s lead and engage in a flurry of domestic and foreign policy initiatives.

But the clock is running. And Bush may already have passed the point of no return, suggested Paul C. Light, a professor of public policy at New York University. “Unless Bush and his advisers do something dramatic to reposition the administration and stop the slide in public approval, they’re going to find they have very few friends who want to come to the White House, let alone friends who want them to come to their districts,” Light said. “And that’s about the worst possible position for a president to be in.”

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1. If he resigned

I would give him my full support.

[adarling]

2. If he fell into a deep coma and never woke up

someone needs to convince laura to slip him something when he goes to bed. Oh that would be nice ;)

[Vincardog]

3. A flurry of resignations would help his ratings. He IS popular IN HELL

[raysr]

4. Of course they'd say that

do you think they'd say "He's doomed, he's fucked, pack it in *!". I've heard it said that once you lose credibility you're done, cooked, fried, out to lunch, ......

[babylonsister]

5. IMO that's an impossibility; he's toast. Too much

water has flowed under that bridge.

[nuxvomica]

6. Bad luck?

Was deciding to invade Iraq in 2001 bad luck? Was hiring useless cronies to run FEMA just bad luck? This article gives him an undeserved break. And it's easier to turn around a manufactured scandal like the Lewinski affair that has a beginning, middle and end than to turn around a reckless adventure in imperialism that continues to run on its own momentum.

[madrchsod]

7. the problem is that he will never admit to a defeat and

he will always blame someone else for his failures. after listening to his comments in argentina it`s apparent his hatred for anyone to dare ask him if he was wrong means he is incapable of humility. his laughter is masking -"i`m going to get you motherfuckers when i get the chance". as rational people we would admit that there maybe problems and we would try to correct them. bush is never going to really change and no matter how hard he tries. now the majority of the american population realize just what he is-a spoiled petulant 59yr old man- child incapable of admiting he did something wrong.

[terrya]

8. Bull and shit.

It's as if the American people are waking up from a deep sleep. They're finally realizing how evil these people are.

Bush's popularity is gone. Finito.

[rocktivity]

9. PUFF PIECE ALERT!!!

WHICH Republican strategists--the ones who strategized him INTO this mess? :rofl:

Of course, as long as the MSM can get away with defining his corruption and lies and "bad luck and setbacks," he can continue to live in his fanatasy world. Unfortunately, articles like this aid and abet him.

:puffpiece:
rocknation

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Chimpy's problem is he hasn't stopped falling yet. Too late for this dope

[Spinzonner]

11. None of those took the country into an illegal war

with thousands of casualties.

[applegrove]

12. The two fingered peace sign tells us alot. In Canada after babyneocons

had been in power and in their desire to be phony and say things like "an election is no time to discuss important issues" they went from a majority of ? seats to two. TWO SEATS ... NATIONALLY.

Because they were liars and had contempt for the voting public.




If Bush keeps on - it will just result in rot - so that not even the most conservative and cold cannot justify voting for him. Let him have his three years. Three years of DISGUST. Because the voters have figured out ... finally.. in what "esteem" he holds the voting public and the mass of Americans.

Two. Two seats is all the baby neos had in Canada after we saw through them. Two seats. And PEACE.

[Cha]

13. "Others" weren't

fuckhead. bush is goin' down. "Others" learn from their mistakes, fuckhead takes Veteran's Day as an opportunity to trash Democratic Veterans and once again blame others for his crimes against humanity. bush should be on his way to the Hague to stand trial..I don't think he has time to change.

[leesa]

14. Time before what...his trial?

[sendero]

15. yeah sure

"of a three-month run of bad luck and setbacks"

Bad luck? Bad luck is when you are sitting at a red light and some moron tail-ends you. What has happened to Bush** is not bad luck, it is consequences. There's a huge difference.

I don't think any of the examples they have given were polling at 65% disapproval rate either.

These guys sound like penis-enlargement pill salesmen, promising the impossible with all the wishful thinking they can muster.