GOP hopefuls become Bush bashers in debate

[radfringe]

GOP hopefuls become Bush bashers in debate
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
By Seattle Times news services
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003736059_debate06.html

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Using rhetoric more in keeping with what could be expected from Democrats, Republican White House hopefuls criticized President Bush on Tuesday night on his handling of the Iraq war, his diplomatic style and his approach to immigration.

"I would certainly not send him to the United Nations" to represent the United States, said Tommy Thompson, the former Wisconsin governor and one-time member of Bush's Cabinet, midway through a spirited campaign debate.

Arizona Sen. John McCain criticized the administration for its handling of the Iraq war, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said, "I think we were underprepared and underplanned for what came after we knocked down Saddam Hussein."

Rep. Duncan Hunter of California said the current administration "has the slows" when it comes to building a security fence along the border with Mexico.

Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado recalled that White House aide Karl Rove had once told him to "never darken the door of the White House." The congressman said he would tell George W. Bush the same thing.

The rupture between Bush and the GOP candidates was a reflection of his poor poll ratings and underscored the foul political climate facing Republicans as they try to retain the White House in 2008.

The criticism of Bush was sprinkled throughout a two-hour debate at Saint Anselm College that ranged over topics from war to immigration legislation pending in Congress to religion. The debate, moderated by Wolf Blitzer of CNN, was the third of the accelerated primary campaign.

[JI7]

1. is the whore media trying to help the future GOP Nominee ?

that's kind of misleading. they never really criticized Bush. only one who really did was Tancredo and that was because he thought Bush was too liberal.

mostly they were playing it safe in order to win primary but not hurt themselves in GE.

[EFerrari]

2. Too bad Inhofe isn't running, too. We could make a horror movie.

:rofl:

[pnwmom]

3. Why don't these critical Senators and Representatives separate themselves

from Bush during actual VOTES, when it matters?

Talk is easy.

[radfringe]

4. all the more reason to press for impeachment

or at the very least a censure of bush/cheney

get the congress critters on record as a bushbot

[zbdent]

5. If the media was as liberal as the myth claims

then all the hype would be "Why do these candidates hate the troops?"

(Since any Dem saying anything slightly unflattering about Bush is considered treason and "hating our troops" ...)