Bush plans rallies in heartlands to halt election mauling

[DoYouEverWonder]

October 30, 2006

George Bush, sidelined from the fray in this election season, started a high energy tour of the Republican heartland at the weekend to rally party loyalists and try to beat back Democratic challenges as the mid-term campaign enters its final days.

With just over a week to go, the president begins a swing through Texas, Georgia, Nevada and Montana today, hoping to shore up Republican morale at a time when the party is in serious danger of losing control of Congress.

Mr Bush attended his first rally in Indiana on Saturday, rousing the faithful with a speech about tax cuts and gay marriage. Today he flies to Texas to campaign in the district dominated for a decade by Tom Delay, the former house majority leader forced to resign after a corruption scandal. Two years ago, Mr Delay carried his seat with 63% of the vote. Today, the Republican candidate, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, is struggling.

The rallies mark a departure for Mr Bush in this election season, when he has largely confined his appearances to tightly controlled fundraisers, calculating that his low approval ratings could risk dragging down Republicans in tight races.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/midterms2006/story/0,,1934743,00.html


I'm more then ready for a little election mauling. Time to kick the bums out.

[wtmusic]

1. Oh crap! He's on to us! He's mentioning Gay Marriage!

I thought we could sneak it through this time...but not with Dubya, no way! :crazy:

[catzies]

2. I want to know, has anyone ever snuck in a camera phone at his events?

And put in on YouTube?

This man is ripe for a meltdown & I'd love to see it live & captured by an average citizen at one of his loyalty rallies.

[lcordero2]

3. This means

that donors are being really stingy and the only thing that he can really do is to TRY to look for votes, which isn't happening either.

[driver8]

4. If Shrub spent 1/4 of the time presidentin' as he does campaigning, maybe

our country wouldn't be so fucked up.

On second thought, maybe it's a good thing he spends so much time campaigning.

[mediaman007]

6. Its a "slight of hand"...whenever Bush* is out of town,

someone else is doing damage back in Washington D.C.

[wholetruth00]

5. I wonder, how many people have families threatened by gay marriage

as opposed to families being threatened by or touched by loss of life in Iraq?

[Erika]

9. None by gay couples

At www.icasualties.org you see the loss of life over W's greed for oil and disdain for "brown" folk. He wants to do away with all those gays and brown people. He's tried his hardest. His extreme righties have rubber stamped him 100%.

[Up2Late]

7. What a great headline! Good ol' Guardian!

And I love that in Tom Delay's old district, they have to "write-in" on the touch screen e-voting machines, without mistakes, the name "Shelley Sekula-Gibbs" or it doesn't count! Is that great or what!?!

[rodeodance]

12. heartlandS and InternetS

[Erika]

8. W pedaling his hatred of gays and brown folks n/t

[superconnected]

10. He waited because of his own low approval ratings may bring theirs down -

"The rallies mark a departure for Mr Bush in this election season, when he has largely confined his appearances to tightly controlled fundraisers, calculating that his low approval ratings could risk dragging down Republicans in tight races."

HAHAHHHA.

With his numbers it's not like they picked anyone with any popularity to help them. He's there because of his own ego is denying it. Plus he's staying in the safes repug places where even they are less likely to go after him - which most of his base wants to do right now. Remember his reception with repugs only a week ago? They were yelling at him over iraq. Dumb Dumb just didn't figure out how bad he is for them now. He's the thorn in the repugs side.

[rodeodance]

11. Rove must have told him he has more hard work to do.

[radfringe]

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[rpannier]

14. Then why is he going

everytime he goes somewhere or opens his mouth the public turns on him even more -- except those people you find at insane asylums and klan rally's.

[rpannier]

15. self delete dupe

[Toots]

16. All at tax payers expense

It great when they get to use other people's money for their dirty businbess isn't it?