The Boston Globe had an interesting observation today about Bush’s campaign events. Bush campaign rallies often have the feel of revivals — not only in the religious references sprinkled through the president’s stump speeches, but also because of the intensity of his supporters’ adoration. The crowds are screened to ensure that only Bush supporters attend, […]
It was supposed to be the ad to end the campaign. Karl Rove did focus groups on the spot and saw reactions so strong, he held it to the very end of the race so it’d have strongest impact. GOP weirdo Dick Morris said the ad “has sparked an amazing surge in Bush’s support to […]
Shortly after BC04’s top campaign surrogate, Rudy Giuliani, blamed the U.S. troops for the Al Qaqaa debacle, the Bush team started looking for a way to spin out of it. Since Giuliani’s words were pretty clear, and were uttered on national television, their options were limited. They relied on the “context” angle. Later, in a […]
For years, that was the religious right’s stated goal with Republicans — they wanted a “seat at the table.” The idea was, the GOP is made up of a series of competing factions; groups like the Christian Coalition wanted the opportunity to weigh in on the Republican agenda to make sure it reflected the movement’s […]
Bush and his surrogates have experimented with a variety of justifications for the missing tons of deadly explosives at Al Qaqaa, nearly all of which have proven either unpersuasive or completely wrong. The one they’ve really rallied behind the past couple of days, however, is the possibility that the munitions were taken from the facility […]
After all that we’ve seen, it’s nothing short of bizarre to see Bush reaching out for Democratic votes, but that’s exactly what he was doing yesterday. As the campaign winds down to a few precious days, the president, accompanied by the first lady, drew more than 8,000 supporters to a dusty old hangar at Youngstown-Warren […]
I know Bush is anxious to exploit images of troops in his campaign ads, but it’d be nice if he stuck to using actual pictures of actual troops. There’s no easy way to explain this; just go take a look. I don’t know why I’m surprised; this is from the same gang who admits, “[W]e […]
We’ve been hearing for years that Karl Rove is absolutely convinced that 4 million Christian evangelicals, who should have backed Bush in 2000, stayed home. The number has always been suspect — Rove has never disclosed his sources or explained his methodology — but even if we accept it at face value, there’s reason to […]
Poor Colin Powell. When the White House isn’t ignoring him, it’s overruling him. Bush tells Saudi Arabia about our invasion of Iraq before Powell, the administration rewrites the rules on following the Geneva Conventions without mentioning it to him, Bush’s neo-con buddies call Powell’s tenure at the State Department a “clear disaster,” the list goes […]
I received a lot of terrific responses to yesterday’s post about what Bush could do with his time should he lose next week, but I thought I’d share one particularly amusing one. One very clever reader, lets call him D.B., identified the one career in which Bush could truly excel. I guess maybe you didn’t […]