The let-Bush-be-Bush strategy; they have little left to lose.

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

White House Journal
The President as Average Joe
Trying to Boost Support, Bush Brings Banter to the People

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 2, 2006

President Bush was taking questions from an audience the other day when he was asked about the immigration debate raging in Washington.

"It's obviously topic du jour ," he said.

The audience laughed at the famously Francophobic Texan's faux accent.

"Pretty fancy, huh?" Bush asked, mocking himself. "Topic du jour ?"

The audience laughed again.

"I don't want to ruin the image," he added conspiratorially.

As he takes to the road to salvage his presidency, Bush is letting down his guard and playing up his anti-intellectual, regular-guy image. Where he spent last year in rehearsed forums with select supporters, these days he is more frequently throwing aside the script and opening himself to questions from audiences that are not prescreened. These sessions have put a sometimes playful, sometimes awkward side back on display after years of trying to keep it under control to appear more presidential.

Call it the let-Bush-be-Bush strategy. The result is a looser president, less serious at times, even at times when humor might seem out of place. Aides used to dread such settings, worried about gaffes or the way Bush might come across in spontaneous exchanges. But with his poll numbers somewhere south of the border, they concluded that Bush handles back-and-forth better than he once did -- and that they have little left to lose.

[Doctor_J]

1. Yup, he got "elected" by being stupid, so he's going

to try to rescue his disastrous reign by dialing up the stoopid factor.

[dajoki]

2. I still wouldn't have a beer with him n/t

[rpannier]

11. That's okay cuz...

he'd have drunk yours then left you with the bill.

[dajoki]

12. LOL

Good one!!

[calimary]

14. Besides, where is the wisdom in liking a dry drunk because he'd

be fun to go have a beer with?

[yellowcanine]

3. This new strategery is bound to be great for Letterman et al.

When * goes unscripted the fun really begins. I am giving this new strategery 1 week tops.

[Doctor_J]

4. He won't be unscripted

they will just be scripted stupidity, instead of scripted statesmanship. His base wants him to be ignorant as they are. This last few months of trying to act like a president has made him and them very uncomfortable. So, he will go back to being a drunken, ignorant dunce to try to pull the Georgia voters back into the fray.

[rpannier]

5. Topic DuJour...Kinda like "DuFus"

Sad part is...it'll probably work.

[yardwork]

6. They have no other option....besides, he's washed up

Unfortunately, the problem won't go away with him. He's a symptom, not the cause.

[dajoki]

8. yes...

the underlying cause are the wing-nuts pulling the strings.

[AndyA]

7. It comes across as flippant to me.

Bush's version of "F you, America. I don't even have to pretend any more. I may be an idiot, but I'm still better than all of you."

I don't think anything he does will restore his poll numbers or repair his image, now. People are beginning to see the light, and they don't like what they see. The ones who still adore him would adore him if he started setting children on fire in front of their parents, forcing them to watch their child burn to death.

Oh that Bush, he's such a kidder...

[Supersedeas]

15. Exactly

[Jack Rabbit]

9. Let Bush be Bush? Oh, boy!! Bring it on!!

[Canuckistanian]

10. Stupidity as a virtue

"Hey, he's jest like that Orville down at the Co-op! Ah'm votin' fer him!"

[Joe Turner]

13. Let Shithead be Shithead?

I like it!

[Bake]

16. Soundsl like an EXIT strategy to me! n/t

Bake

[dajoki]

17. exit from the WH n/t

[radio4progressives]

18. Schumer Lead Boycott on Feingold's Censure Hearing... (links)

I posted about it in this thread, and it includes source links:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[dajoki]

21. thank you

[susu369]

19. "I'm the funny guy."

The president gave his instant review: "Little print, no pictures."

Melia did not miss a beat and compared it to another book Bush likes to cite. "It's the bible of freedom," Melia said.

When the crowd laughed, Bush protested, " I'm the funny guy."

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Shows bu$h* to be the complete narcissist that he is.

Turn him loose....

[Javaman]

20. but doesn't that concept confirm just completely

fucked up the country has become? by allowing moron* to continue to be moron*?

to me this statement reads, "just let him continue on his path of distruction because we repukes are fucked anyway." LOLOLOLOLOL

[dajoki]

22. that's what i'm hoping n/t