Strategists: Bush Comeback Will Be Tough

[NVMojo]

the news isn't too positive for old * these days...

WASHINGTON (AP) -

Republican strategists say President Bush has time to snap out of a three-month run of bad luck and setbacks, including GOP losses Tuesday in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.

Still, a comeback will be tough, and will get increasingly tougher the closer the 2006 midterm elections come, strategists in both parties agree.

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But the clock is running. And Bush may already have passed the point of no return, suggested Paul C. Light, a professor of public policy at New York University.

"Unless Bush and his advisers do something dramatic to reposition the administration and stop the slide in public approval, they're going to find they have very few friends who want to come to the White House, let alone friends who want them to come to their districts," Light said. "And that's about the worst possible position for a president to be in."

more...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2005/nov/12/111203136.html

[tinrobot]

1. Something dramatic?

Like a terrorist attack?

GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7639.shtml

I wouldn't put it past him, but even that wouldn't work.

He's toast.

[Mountainman]

2. In order to make a comeback the administration would have to give up their

agenda and start listening to what the country wants. Instead they will try a new round of lies. The talk shows will spread them like jam but more and more people are not listening to them.

[VegasWolf]

3. Something dramatic? Like handling a big hurricane's damage? nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Tough = I-m-p-o-s-s-i-b-l-e. Too late for these jerks.

[chaumont58]

5. Comeback to what?

Bush's rise after 9/11 was built on lies. He was never the great war time leader. The beltway whores, Tweety comes to mind, pumped chimpie up. Bush has never accomplished anything on his own in his entire life. Change his last name to anything else, and he couldn't get a job as a greeter in the Lubbock WalMart. There aren't enough people who would swallow Tweety's bullshit, if he were inclined to dump it on us again.

[madaboutharry]

6. Bush will not recover because

he is not capable of admitting he has ever been wrong about anything.

[nevergiveup]

7. Once an individual is viewed as dishonest

it is extremely difficult to reverse this perception. Chimpy is in big trouble.

[MichiganVote]

8. Recover? Well, here's a thought, why doesn't he try doing his job

Like:

1. Do more than look at hurricane carnage from the window of a plane.

2. Meeting with people who do not necessairily pay him to show up

3. Stay off the plane and kill the fundraisers

4. Fire Rove, Fire Rumsfeld, Dump Cheney


Better yet, just take off. We'll all approve of that.

[Danascot]

9. What's that saying I'm looking for?

Oh yeah:

Stick a fork in him... he's cooked.

[rocktivity]

10. "A three-month run of bad luck and setbacks?"

How about a "five-year run of conspiracy, corruption and lies"? PUFF PIECE ALERT!

:puffpiece:
rocknation

[emdee]

11. His Republican cronies who are up for reelection in '06....

will have to distance themselves from the Bush administration. When I saw that Forrester ad that said he was pro-choice, I nearly fell off my chair! They'll have to get quite a bit of distance between themselves and the Far Right or they won't be elected in '06 --- but then if they are reelected, can they go back to being "all for one, and one for all"? And, even if they try to - Bush has a long memory when it comes to who did or didn't stand by him. It may well prove interesting to see how the Party that has been so united will fall.
emdee