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"Harry Hope" |
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15 Aug 2006 09:25:29 AM |
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Republicans approved of Bush's election theft, now they don't trust him. |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-jacobs/poll-shows-republicans-do_b_27278.html
08.14.2006
Poll Shows Republicans Don't Trust Bush
With all of the sturm and drang (that's Joe Lieberman talk for hand
wringing) over Iraq as some sort of twisted Achilles heel for the
Democrats, we now have news that even Republicans don't trust their
own party to tell them the truth about Iraq or to ask the right
questions about it.
In a poll conducted 2-3 August by Courage Campaign and MyDD.com
following up on research we did last month to find out just why
Francine Busby lost in the 50th Congressional District in California,
we learned the following.
1. 63% of Republican voters believe that Bush has made some or a lot
of mistaks in Iraq and fully 24% believe he has made "a lot of
mistakes" in Iraq . (Makes you kind of wonder who the rest are.)
2. One third of Republicans think Bush has not told the truth about
Iraq and should be held accountable for what he has done there.
3. Interestingly, nearly a half (48%) believes that the Democratic
Party will hold Bush accountable for what he has done in Iraq, versus
only 19% who believe that the Republicans will do so.
National polls continue to show that the American people have lost
patience with President Bush's occupation of Iraq.
This poll, focused on one single district where Republican
registration exceeds Democratic registration by fourteen points, puts
a very fine point on the "message question" that plagues many
Democrats and that brought down Joe Lieberman.
Quite simply, the people again lead the politicians.
While incumbents distance themselves from a president whom they did
not have the courage to question, their own party loyalists stand up
first for patriotism rather than partisanship.
Jim Webb, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Virginia, a man who
understands first hand better than anyone in the Bush White House when
and how to use the military for national defense, puts it best:
"How long does the president plan to continue the occupation of Iraq?"
So far, neither his opponent George Allen nor the president nor any of
the party in power has figured out how to answer that question.
In the meantime, the good people of San Diego County set the trend,
telling us that they want answers.
The current one party regime has neither the capacity nor the
confidence of the American people to answer those questions.
If the Republicans and Independents of a "red" county think this way,
it's time for the Democrats to lead this way.
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Bet ya didn't know all that.
Harry
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