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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (758953)	2/8/2007 6:52:02 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

I've heard similar-style rumblings from among certain Republican power centers. For example, that they could (reluctantly) get behind a maverick like McCain --- strictly to keep the Hillary-Boogie out of the WH (&... only because McCain would be 'just a placeholder' 'too old' to run again in 2012... so the game would be all about his V.P, choice.) Or that the liberal Guilianni could be 'acceptable' to the base (I think they are fooling themselves on this one :-), insofar as he is the 'surest' Clinton beater (& if he mouths some pablum about 'conservative Court nominees', and maybe gives a talk at Bob Jones....) Or even THIS making the rounds (Hastert was quoted saying this the other day): losing in 2008 is NECESSARY to allow the GOP to wash out all the big-spending, fauxconservative types, then re-load, back true to it's imagined 'small government roots', and sweep to national victory in 2012. Signs of panicky behavior and malaise.... I thought (what we discussed earlier yesterday) that it was VERY INSTRUCTIVE how Jebbie was introduced a week or so ago in (Iowa, I believe it was) for a speech to Party faithful: "The man who would be the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES... if his last name were only 'Smith'." Instructive how Bush II has laid them so low, and his policies are on the verge of delivering to the Party a nation-wide defeat of possibly epic proportions in 2008 (unless Party elders can separate themselves from his handiwork in time...), and how the very name of Bush has been so devalued in the political arena after the father and the son.... Momentous is the only word that comes to mind to describe the political developments.