As each of the 10 GOP presidential candidates tried again to find ways to stand out from the pack in Tuesday night’s debate in New Hampshire and reaffirmed their values bona fides, they were newly willing to criticize the Bush administration for its handling of the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and especially illegal immigration. "I think we were underprepared and underplanned for what came after we knocked down Saddam Hussein," Mitt Romney said on the first issue. Even Tommy Thompson (in photo), a former member of President Bush’s Cabinet, was pretty harsh. The Ronald Reagan name-dropping continued. This time, though, the elephant in the room was Fred Thompson, who launched a campaign Web site Tuesday and appeared after the debate on Fox News channel.
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When asked to name something they disagreed with Bush on….
It’s a YEAR AND A HALF until election day. This is ridiculous. Stop this, now. Enough with this moving primaries ahead so a state can get more “influence” in choosing the president. Establish 4-8 regional primaries, beginning, oh, say March and ending late July.
At this point, paying attention to WSU baseball is just more important. Geez, mowing the law is more important.
Maybe if the media simply stops paying attention to them until the public starts doing so?
With any luck by the time it really is time to pay attention they will have eliminated one another.
The debate was yesterday, but today the kneepads are back on and they’re kissing Bush’s ass as they have for the past six years.
Hell, Brownback actually has a good idea on how to solve the Iraq problem. Now lets see if someone worthwhile can steal it and get elected. God knows I don’t want him in the White House, any more than I want Bush or Hilary.
The best response to the question, “What would you have Bush do after the election” was from one of the debaters, who said, “Once you’re out of office, leave it to the new guy.” He had no time for Bush.
“When asked to name something they disagreed with Bush on….”
. . . Irag war, funding same, Immigration, health care . . . need more?
Did you not watch it? I did.
I think it would be a hoot if Fred Thompson got elected, just so we all could hear the “Law and Order” sound clip each time he appears on MSM TV. :D
deemp deemp
Maybe Fred or Rudy, since they have tyhe most colorful accents, could add new pronunciations to the national vocabulary a la Bush and “nuke-ular.”
Another problem in Iraq:
Turkish officials say troops enter Iraq
http://www.kansas.com/wireupdates/story/88937.html
Good one Eagle, ‘GOP presidential wannabes’ for this blog title. In future I bet I will see ‘Democratic presidential hopefuls’ in future blog titles. No wannabes on the democrat side. Only hopefuls. Slanted?
Wow, where are the neo-cons, waving their red state banner high and backing their Brownback boy? I’m shocked, I tell you . . . shocked!
Remember that scene in “Peter Pan.” “If you believe in fairies, clap yourhands!!” And since most everyone in the audience is seven-years-old oryounger, the whole audience claps and claps and claps their hands, full offaith that if they clap hard enough and clap loud enough — if they believe,only believe — everything will turn out okay, their sheer faith and will isgonna bring Tinkerbell back to life, and the world will be safe for fairies.
Bushies think if they clap their hands loud and hard and long enough RonaldReagan’s Star Wars fantasy might work in the real world. Bushies hopeagainst hope if they clap their hands loud and hard and long enough, GeorgeWMD Bush won’t be revealed to be the most incompetent Chief Executive inAmerica’s history.
This week there’s no one on the planet, except for the TinkerbellRepublicans, who has any confidence whatsoever that George WMD Bush won’tscrew up his encounter with Vladimir Putin. The same competence Shrub showedin reacting to the post-Katrina disaster; the same military genius thatturned “Mission Accomplished” into an earth-tone Vietnam; the same personalintegrity that turned the Department of Justice into the Department of GOPPolitics; the same strategic mind who undermined CIA agents’ covert statusout of pique…. is now going head-to-head with a skilled KGP apparatchikwhose career survived and triumphed over the USSR, the Cold War, glasnost,parastroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, the Russian Mafia.
America is sending the Charlie Brown All-Stars up against the 1927 Yankees.
The Tinkerbell Republicans still think George WMD Bush might pull out asuccess. Ha! The Republic Party’s only post-Shrub hope is to keep him inDick Cheney’s undisclosed location and hope he doesn’t try to achieveanything until the nation can be returned to adult supervision on January20, 2009.
(Maybe trot him out every once in a while, like when he wanted the MemorialDay photo-op with the Widow of the Unknown Soldier.)
But that would indicate the Republic Party isn’t dependent now on the 28% ofof Americans who think George WMD Bush is doing a good job: you know, theTinkerbell Republicans.
(Maybe it’s a thing about fairies.)
Looks like they were taking there stratigy fron the campaign of the new prez of France.
Who’d a thunk it ;)
strategy :(
Strategery.
Anyone else notice with the Pres. Repub. hopefulls bashing Bush yesterday, not even his family has stepped up to defend him? Maybe they’re feeling guilty for not having warned the country what an idiot their son really was before he damaged the country.
Phantom,It’s more likely just a show.
It’s either that, or it is now official.
Bush is Not a “lame duck” he’s a lame f__k.