Which factor now threatens the bush candidacy most?

[freetobegay]

Poll question: Which factor now threatens the bush candidacy most?

[snippy]

1. His compulsive and incessant lying. He can not tell the truth.

The entire world knows that Bush is the most compulsive and incessant liar in the history of American politics.

Bush claims that John McCain has an illegitimate Negro daughter and said he would veto McCain-Feingold and the yawning boy was not there and was not yawning and besides he was standing some place else and Richard Clarke had complete access to Bush and Rice which proves that Clarke was out of the loop which is Clinton's fault which means that unnamed White House sources may not be identified even when Bush wants to even though everyone except Bush himself knows where he was during his National Guard service which was after he volunteered to go to Viet Nam but before he was no longer required to take a flight physical and about the same time that God ordered Bush to smite Saddam which is Clinton's fault because the 60 lines of embryonic stem cells and more arsenic in the water and more mercury in the air prove that republican science is better than sound science and the Bush administration did not illegally conspire to illegally reveal the identity of a covert CIA operative which resulted in 2 million new jobs being created because democrats support terrorism and are not good Americans just as the Jews were not good Germans which is why Bush said he would veto the creation of both the Department of Homeland Security and the 9/11 Commission but the White House is cooperating with the 9/11 Commission which is why the White House withheld documents and called the republicans on the Commission before Clarke testified and why the White House is not coordinating the attacks on the integrity and bipartisanship of the Commission since the dental xrays prove that Bush spoke with the CIA director everyday and did not ignore either the repeated warnings of the dangers of al Qaeda and Osama or the August 2001 intelligence briefing specifically warning of the upcoming 9/11 attacks because the United States is a nation with a mission and that mission is to bring freedom to every single person in the world which will cut the deficit in half if you do not count those parts of the deficit which will increase under Bush which is Clinton's fault but the boxes from China were labeled "Made in USA" which resulted in 2.6 million new jobs being created even though the $400 billion decorative Medicare turkey was not labeled $550 billion and was passed without bribery or criminal deception which proves that government spending under Bush has gone down if you do not count the increased government spending under Bush which is Clinton's fault and Bush's plane to Baghdad was spotted because before Saddam bought the uranium and became an urgent but not an imminent threat which is Clinton's fault Bush had no plans on his desk to invade Iraq since the invasion was not planned before Bush took office even though it was the subject of his first national security council meeting and in December 2001 Bush said he was focused on the military operations in Afghanistan and then the aircraft carrier was too far offshore for the Navy to make a large enough "Mission Accomplished" banner to describe the WMD we have found in Iraq some of which Saddam was giving to Osama for following Saddam's plans and using Iraqi hijackers on 9/11 which is Clinton's fault but everyone who pays income taxes got a tax cut which created 3 million new jobs and allowed Iraqi oil revenue to pay for the cost of the reconstruction of Iraq after the invasion by a small number of troops who would be greeted with floral program related activities except for the dead and wounded troops who are being brought home secretly which is Clinton's fault since Bush is the one who hugs the mothers and the widows and the wives and the kids and that is why Bush who will use the jawbone of an ass to force OPEC to open the spigots and who is responsible for good economic numbers but not bad economic numbers which are Clinton's fault wrote the poem that he did not write blaming Laura for dropping the dog.

There is no subject so somber, serious, or shallow that Bush will not lie about it. The only other option is not to lie. And that apparently is something Bush can not do.

Ridiculing Bush for his compulsive and incessant lying needs to become common.

FIRE THE LIAR

[AlinPA]

6. Great. Thank you. OK if I copy and distribute text to friends? n/t

[snippy]

11. Please do.

[indepat]

2. A fair election would most threaten his candidacy: it's not who casts

the votes, rather who counts the votes (with Diebold, he is a shoo-in).

[laruemtt]

3. all of the above.

[demnan]

4. Arrogance

It wasn't lying that destroyed Nixon, it was arrogance about that lying, thinking it wasn't going to come out. Arrogance pours additional lies on top of lies.

Arrogance is also going to direct this disasterous foreign policy we have.

[Supormom]

5. Aggression

It is the war in Iraq that most people are upset about.

[rogerashton]

7. It's Bush's election to lose.

And lose it he will.

The only question is how much damage will be done to the country in the process.

[HFishbine]

8. Other

Mendacity and the contempt for the American people it illustrates.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

9. Well, let's run down the checklist, shall we?

Extreme Secrecy - people don't get pissed off about what they don't know about. I doubt this has any impact at all on Bush and works in his favor actually.

Stupidity - it's becoming increasingly apparent that Bush actually gets a free pass thanks to his stupidity. He's successfully lowered the bar so low for himself that any sign of competence whatsoever is a cause of celebration.

Arrogance - oh please. we're the most arrogant fucking nation in the world. This is probably his most endearing quality in the eyes of most of his supporters.

Aggression - now if there's a chink in his armor, it's this. I can easily see him overextending himself by getting too aggressive, both in his policies and in his campaigning. I see Bush's negative advertising on just about every night, and they show no signs of letting up. The American people get sick of this shit really quickly, or at least they have in the past. And in policies, well, the more Americans that come home in body bags, the less desireable his aggressiveness becomes.

[placton]

10. Other - a bad economy + no Osama

is the ONLY combo that will lose Bush the election.

The sheeple are giving him a pass on Iraq, and the rest. Only if they can't afford premium cable will they vote against the fearless boy hero.

The failure to deliver Osama would be a negative. That's why he or a double will be "captured" just before we go to the polls.

[markomalley]

12. The truth...

...threatens him the most. If the truth comes out, he's sunk, regardless of which characteristic you chose.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. LIES...all the fucking lies that are killing our children.

That will bring him down. You cannot hide underneath the covers forever.