Bush predicts GOP will hold White House

[villager]

Source: AP

Bush predicts GOP will hold White House

By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - President Bush predicted Monday that voters will replace him with a Republican president who will "keep up the fight" in Iraq. "I'm confident we'll hold the White House in 2008," Bush told donors at the Republican Governors Association annual dinner, which raised a record $10.6 million for GOP gubernatorial candidates.

"And I don't want the next Republican president to be lonely," Bush said. "And that is why we got to take the House, retake the Senate, and make sure our states are governed by Republican governors."

The pep talk came in the midst of a presidential campaign that largely has overshadowed Bush's final year in office. Bush has promised to be an active fundraiser, and he had no trouble slipping into enthusiastic campaign mode Monday evening.

He said Republicans still offer the bedrock positions that voters embrace: strong defense, low taxes and personal freedoms.

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He said the bit about the "personal freedoms" with a straight face, apparently.

Eyes on the prize, people -- Either Dem over any Repubbie!

[Lost-in-FL]

1. Personal freedoms?? He's joking...

Huh???

[davhill]

31. That's Corporate Freedom

The freedom to rob the treasury unrestrained

[beltanefauve]

43. Thanks for the explanation!

:hi:

[yurbud]

67. you have the right to remain wealthy. You have the right to a lobbyist to buy legislators

to increase your wealth with public funds and deregulation. Should anyone else accumulate wealth, you have the right to seize it through hostile takeovers, legislation to give you an unfair advantage, and subsidies paid for with the upstarts taxes. Should you be denied these rights, you have the right to buy more legislators. If these legislators cannot protect your rights, you have the right to subvert and suspend democracy.

[SammyWinstonJack]

77. ...

:thumbsup:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. Oh, God, attack of the thwarted cheerleader...

I think a movie was made about this.


on edit, damn it I thought I didn't need spell check for "thwarted". I was wrong. :-(

[Arkana]

3. Thanks for reminding us, Dubya.

We'll be sure to revisit this when a Democrat is sworn in on January 20, 2009.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. That is that f*cker's way of saying that the fix is in

for the repukes in the November elections.

Smug ba$tard!

[villager]

7. One wonders if he's "sure" for the same reasons as last time...

n/t

[BeatleBoot]

16. The fix is happening as we speak.

The fix is headline news.

It's here and now.

And I get yelled at everytime I post here talking about it.

The fix is definitely a current event.

Most don't know and they don't know that they don't know.

Sorry to say.

[BeHereNow]

27. I agree with you 100%.

Poppy's public endorsement of McCain
was the real tip off.
Just as his buddy Schultz's endorsement
of Ahhh-nold was in California.
These evil fuckers are the real
people running the country.
Make no mistake about it.
And, they never tire...
BHN

[HowHasItComeToThis]

34. BINGO

[tavalon]

29. Do you mean the fouth estate is corrupt?

Because that's a duh. Or do you mean something else? I'm giving you a forum. Tell me, I'm interested.

[Supersedeas]

63. the best computer generated election fraud that money can buy--$10mil here, $10mil there

[Olney Blue]

5. who let him back in the country?

[TheDebbieDee]

18. That's a good question.......Why did we let his stupid a$$

back in the country? That was our chance to exhile him!

[Me.]

6. Is He Still Living In The WH?

So irrelevant I forgot he existed

[melody]

8. Thus spake a visionary

:sarcasm:

[Olney Blue]

22. He's a visioner

[Mythsaje]

9. Oh, yeah...like any of his OTHER predictions have been particularly on-target.

If he was an archer, he'd be shooting arrows into his own ass rather than into the target.

[theoldman]

10. "strong defense, low taxes and personal freedoms"

That is exactly what Democrats want.

[LisaM]

11. LOLOL

Is he lonely? Poor wittle Bushie.....


This is great news.


:rofl:




P.S. I like us better when we aren't fighting each other. There is a far larger enemy.

[swag]

12. His record as a clairvoyant rivals that of the Great Criswell.

What a stupid asshole.

[Submariner]

13. Bookmarked so I can check this post on the next Jan 20th

Couldn't his plane break down in Africa? I thought it he was still out of the country. Drat!

[rpannier]

14. And he said the republikkans would hold the House and Senate in 06

His crystal ball is getting foggier by the day

[grytpype]

23. Uh, yes he did, didn't he?

He's wrong, like 95% of the time.

If you believe the opposite of what Duhbya says, you're like Einstein.

[villager]

24. Maybe he meant the Republicans would still get their way, since the Dems would fold

...even if they did the midterms?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

15. K & R.

I'll take the newbiest poster in GD-P over Bush ALWAYS.

:kick:

[rocktivity]

17. That's EXACTLY what he said in '06

about the Repubs holding on to Congress!

:rofl:
rocknation

[ladywnch]

41. that's exactly what I was thinking. I made that same prediction and we

all know how well that worked out for him!

[Xipe Totec]

19. Predicts, or Edicts? n/t

[grytpype]

20. Damn, that's funny. He'd be a scream if he didn't have his finger on the button.

[CRK7376]

21. What is he

Smoking or Drinking? Clearly out of his mind, if he ever had one in the first place.

[santamargarita]

25. Fascist Pig thought the same thing in 2006

Get the fuck out of OUR White House!

[texasleo]

26. Nostradumbass with another prediction

sweet

[freedomnorth]

47. Perhaps crystal ball that can see future. nt.

[Mad_Dem_X]

76. "Nostradumbass"!

:spray:

[eringer]

28. Eringer predicts GOP will lose the White House

So much for predictions. We will see who is right in November.

[Stuart G]

30. K & R nt

[11 Bravo]

32. I wonder what Bush's DU username is.

I have a pretty fair idea.

[BeHereNow]

39. HughMoranSeries!ll!

Oh wait, I think there is a DUer with a name close to that...
Well, it would be perfect for Dubya-hoo.

BHN

[Aviation Pro]

33. Way to go....

...shithead. In spite of my reservations about the current front runner you, you asswipe scumbag, have just validated my decision to vote for whomever the Democratic candidate is. Please, you bloody, pus-filled stool, keep fucking running diarrhea out of your filthy, motherfucking mouth.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

35. SO TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT MONEY RAISED

THE FIRST THING THAT THE DEM PRESIDENT MUST DO IS ELIMINATE MONEY IN ELECTIONS BY EXECUTIVE ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eric J in MN]

36. The freedom to have him label you an "enemy combatant"...

...and imprison you for the rest of your life without even access to your family or an attorney.

That is the power he claimed in the Jose Padilla case.

[Stand and Fight]

37. This is great news!

I think the last time Bush predicted anything about elections -- see 2006 -- we won! Yeah!

[Eric J in MN]

38. "take the House, retake the Senate"

Since the Republicans lost both the House and the Senate through the 2006 elections, I'm not sure why the verb "take" applies to one and the verb "retake" to the other.

[Old_Growth]

48. Could be the Lieberman effect...n\t

[mitchum]

40. Well, he needs to get out there and campaign for those republican candidates...

he needs to put his ass where his mouth is
I'm sure they will really appreciate it

[nolabels]

66. I bet a lot of those republican candidates will call in sick on those days

The republican candidates have no product to sell and their reputation is shoddy. Having * stumping for them could be the trifecta.

We should all send letters of encouragement to * with emphasis of him needing to go out and help the rest of his party ;-)

[godfather08]

42. bush wrong?

Bush wrong? No, Can't be.

[Javaman]

44. sounds like hitler in the bunker talking about secret weapons as berlin gets bombed. nt

[DuaneBidoux]

45. I can only hope his keen prognostication skills of the last 7 years hold up!

[Mac128]

46. I sure hope he's as bad a prognosticator as he is a president.

But really, how can you question a man with a 19% approval rating?

Didn't you read the article?

"When I say I'm confident, I am so because I understand the mentality of the American people" –GWB

Damn, that's enough for me ...

Did I mention he has a 19% approval rating?

[Dark]

49. Hey you stupid fuck. We've taken the house, and the senate, and we're about to take the whitehouse.

Congratulations, preznit shit for brains.

You've ensured 20 years of democratic rule

[OneBlueSky]

50. translation . . . "the fix is in, you dumbfucks" . . . n/t

.

[kikiek]

51. This needs to be kept alive to get people motivated. K&R it!

[dysfunctional press]

52. "personal freedoms"???

:eyes:

[Magleetis]

53. The only way

the repugs win in 08 is if the vote is rigged, and I fear the worst.

In shrubs world:

Strong defense = starting wars and killing innocent people.

Low taxes for the rich only.

Personal freedoms with limits.

FUGWB

[Mad_Dem_X]

54. Dear God

What a fucking delusional moron.

"And I don't want the next Republican president to be lonely," Bush said. "And that is why we got to take the House, retake the Senate, and make sure our states are governed by Republican governors."

Sounds like a nightmare of epic proportions to me.

[BreweryYardRat]

55. Which means the fix may be in.

[Joe Bacon]

56. You're going to jail, President Pinhead!

I am waiting for the day Attorney General Edwards sends YOU to Prison for exposing Valerie Plame.

No Pardon can save YOU from that you worthless piece of shit!

[4_TN_TITANS]

57. Hilarious....

Only 19% of Americans should believe this. Lord knows the fool has been right on every other subject. :eyes:

[kskiska]

58. He predicted they'd keep the House and Senate in 2006

So much for his predictions.

[boilinmad]

59. Thats right, mr numbnuts...

...all we really need in a president, at this point, is someone that will keep the war going in Iraq. Theres really no other work to be done, now is there. What an idiot.

[missTheBigDog]

60. Get your grammar straight....

"And I don't want the next Republican president to be lonely," Bush said. "And that is why we got to take the House, retake the Senate, and make sure our states are governed by Republican governors."

That is why we 'got' to? He is a total dumbass moron.

[mwb970]

61. Idiot. /nt

[missTheBigDog]

62. The "fix" is what scares me the most

If this is another close election, as it probably will be, then we could be in trouble.
It will probably come down to one state again. The votes can then be easily manipulated. There is no telling who the pollworkers are and their morals. Heck, even the software programmers who program the polling machines
can be Republican and alter the votes. We just don't know where in the process these
people lie and can easily manipulate vote counts. If the election is a landslide
for the Dems, then it's harder to do this. But McCain is a formidable foe.

[LynnTheDem]

64. How out-of-touch for how long can a pResident go, you ask???

replace him with a Republican president who will "keep up the fight" in Iraq

Majority of troops dissatisfied with handling of war; believe war was wrong
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_01/010500.php

American Majority Sees Iraq War as a Mistake
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/american_majority_sees_iraq_war_as_a_mistake/

Poll: 63% want all troops home by end of '08
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-02-12-troops-poll_x.htm

58 percent want U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2008
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/13/iraq.poll/index.html

U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006
http://www.zogby.com/NEWS/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1075

Poll: Sending troops to Iraq a mistake
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/polls/2004-06-24-poll_x.htm

But then this is no surprise to the MAJORITY of Americans...the MAJORITY who OPPOSED George W. bUsh's illegal invasion in the first place;

December 17, 2002

Poll: Bush hasn't made case for Iraq war

More than two-thirds of Americans believe the Bush administration has failed to make its case that a war against Iraq is justified...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-12-17-iraq-poll_x.htm

January 13, 2003

Poll: Majority of Americans oppose unilateral action against Iraq
...without U.N. approval and allies, only about a third of the public would support a war with Iraq.
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/001415.html



US Public Want to Give UN Inspectors More Time

Seven in 10 Americans would give U.N. weapons inspectors months more to pursue their arms search in Iraq, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that found growing doubts about an attack on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Fifty-eight percent said they would like to see more evidence, and 71 percent said the United States should make public its own evidence if the U.N. inspectors can't find hard evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

In one clear sign of public caution on Iraq, 43 percent of respondents said the U.N. inspectors should have as much time as they like to scour Iraq. A quarter said the inspectors should have "a few months" or more. Another quarter supported a deadline of a few weeks or less for the inspections.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A23564-2003Jan21

[missTheBigDog]

65. Thanks, Lynn

And we still voted this clown back in office in 2004??

[gasperc]

68. Bush "predicted" Hillary would be the nominee

although I can't quite close the book on that one...

[damntexdem]

69. Yeah, and he also said "mission accomplished."

Hey, GOP, bring it on!

[Az_lefty]

70. idiot boy hasn't been right about anything in his life...

guess it's going to be President Obama.

[xxqqqzme]

71. personal freedoms, huh?

Does that mean he's gearing up for one last assault on the Constitution?

Whenever he brags about one thing, it is the next thing attacked.

[maquisard]

72. Yeah, but the shrub believes in the Tooth Fairy

I wonder what it must be like to be President and completely ignored.

[krkaufman]

73. That's the best news I've heard all day.

This prediction, from the same moron who predicted they'd hold both houses of Congress in 2006.

[hasssan1]

74. FUCK BUSH x 1000

[Mountainman]

75. Has he ever said something that was true?

[MilesColtrane]

78. One nation, under the GOP...

...with record debt, endless war, surveillance, fixed elections, and torture for all.

Would someone who protected a traitor lie?