‘How low can the Republicans go?’

October 7, 2006

I thought some of the polls taken early last week were bad for the GOP. A Newsweek poll, released this afternoon, is much worse.

For the first time since 2001, the NEWSWEEK poll shows that more Americans trust the Democrats than the GOP on moral values and the war on terror. Fully 53 percent of Americans want the Democrats to win control of Congress next month, including 10 percent of Republicans, compared to just 35 percent who want the GOP to retain power. If the election were held today, 51 percent of likely voters would vote for the Democrat in their district versus 39 percent who would vote for the Republican. And while the race is closer among male voters (46 percent for the Democrats vs. 42 percent for the Republicans), the Democrats lead among women voters 56 to 34 percent. (emphasis added)

Remember all that talk in the media about Bush’s rebound, stemming from the fifth anniversary of 9/11? Forget it — the president’s approval rating has fallen to a new all-time low for the Newsweek poll: 33%, down from 36% in August

Dems now lead the GOP on “every single issue that could decide voters’ choices” between now and Election Day — fighting the war on terror (44% to 37%), moral values (42% to 36%), Iraq (47% to 34%), the economy (53% to 31%), health care (57% to 24%), federal spending and the deficit (53% to 29%), gas and oil prices (56% to 23%), and immigration (43% to 34%).

Other than those, everything for the Republicans is looking great.

I won’t cgloat just yet, though it is tempting. After the elections I might commit a random act of snarkiness. Or just weep with relief (I hope). The moral values thing suprises me since Democrats are the party of not chasing gay people through the street with pitchforks and flaming brands or bombing women’s health clinics.

But perhaps people have figured out that there’s a bit more to “moral values” than sticking a long twitchy nose in other peoples’ business. Perhaps folks are waking up to the fact that killing thousands of Iraqis because the Flying Monkey wanted to play War with real soldiers is far more immoral than anything consenting adults get up to.

I think gas prices started the GOPs long overdue slide into oblivion because that affected people twice: At the gas pump and in the stores. And maybe having to sit still because their Ford Juggernaut or Toyota Titanic sucks up too much gas has allowed people to reflect on how screwed up things have gotten.

I’m still hoping to see His Eternal Smirkiness’ numbers reach single digits before Jan 2009.

Hey Karl? Got the Surprise ready yet?

  • I’m having pre-2000 flashbacks! All this trouble and scandal just to get back to what feels normal to me. Maybe we’ll all step out of the shower like Bobby Eweing and it will all have been a dream.

    Thanks for the good news, CB

  • If Americans polled today prefer Democrats, I would hope it wasn’t because of a reaction to the headlines, but rather a realization that they had been fooled for the past five years. When voters wake up and refuse to allow themselves to be tricked, that benefits the nation as a whole — and is unforgiving of any party that will manipulate them again.

    But it’s probably just a reaction to headlines. 🙁

  • The thugs will try to hang the Iraq morass on a dem congress. All of a sudden, under orders from his superiors, Bush will press the dem congress for a solution to the unsolvable and lay the groundwork for another thug pres in 08. If the dems push for immediate withdrawal and Bush complies, when the @#$ hits the fan….

    A circus of hearings wont help the dems in 08 either. They had better pick their targets wisely. A dem congress w/o a dem pres, at this bizarre crossroads for our nation, could be a powerless liability. If the media remains firmly in the enemy camp….

  • What great news! Poll results like this indicate that the public has had it with the Bush Crime Family. Whether the Democratic Party can take steps to guarantee the only poll that matters, Nov 7, reflects results like these remains a matter of concern. They ought to be able, unless they’re lazy or the Regal Moron really does have a direct line to the Creator Intelligent Designer Whatever.

  • ***Other than “every single issue that could decide voters’ choices” between now and Election Day, everything for the Republicans is looking great.***

    Blast, CB—when I patch your summary together like this, it makes me want to put up the Yule tree and start humming carols. And to tAiO—Karl’s surprise is that there IS no surprise; the playbook is spent, and everyone knows all his moves. 31 days to the mid-terms—and all he’s got left is to “crawl to his masters with the bad news….”

  • don’t assume bush won’t bomb iran or n.korea before nov. to recapture the initiative. wag the dog isn’t beyond the pale. and if the war doesn’t change the vote, don’t assume bush won’t declare marshall law.

  • georgep,

    1st he would have to have an army capable of attacking Iran or N Korea which we don’t. Altough Rummy might advise him you go to war with the army you have, however I don’t beleive even bush is that assinine.

  • IV. THE REVOLT OF THE HIGHBROWS

    “Here was a new generation … grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.”

    –F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise.

    BY THE end of the war with Germany, social compulsion had become a national habit. The typical American of the old stock had never had more than a half-hearted enthusiasm for the rights of the minority; bred in a pioneer tradition, he had been accustomed to set his community in order by the first means that came to hand-a sumptuary law, a vigilance committee, or if necessary a shotgun. Declarations of Independence and Bills of Rights were all very well in the history books, but when he was running things himself he had usually been open to the suggestion that liberty was another name for license and that the Bill of Rights was the last resort of scoundrels. During the war he had discovered how easy it was to legislate aid propagandize and intimidate his neighbors into what seemed to him acceptable conduct, and after peace was declared he went on using the same sort of method to see that they continued to conform…read more

    http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/ALLEN/ch9.html

  • Confused, bewitched and befuddled over the American masses? Henry Louis Mencken, founder and editor of the American Mercury, said it best — “No one ever lost a dime underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”

  • I estimate that 60%, or more, of this country’s denizens have marginal brain capacity, at best.
    “If This War Is About Protecting USA, Why Do We Have Open Borders?”

  • The Iraqi people are apparently not interested in being ruled by a foreign occupation government. This is difficult for the American boob to understand. The reason being they live under a Corporate Occupation Government and appear to love it.

  • And if they weren’t stealing elections, things would be jake.

    But they ARE. And have been. And the blogs just keep bloggin’ along, ignoring the vote-fraud.

    They don’t need to win the election. They just need to have an EXCUSE for the results.

    When they role out their October Surprise Bin Laden body, they will blame their win on him.

    He’s done a lot of service for them in the past, so they know they can count on him.

    Or blame the count on him, whatever.

  • “don’t assume bush won’t bomb iran or n.korea before nov.” …”don’t assume bush won’t declare marshall law.” –georgep — 10/7/2006 @ 9:05 pm

    “1st he would have to have an army capable of attacking Iran or N Korea which we don’t. Altough Rummy might advise him you go to war with the army you have, however I don’t beleive even bush is that assinine.” –Jim

    Wow, Jim, get with the program. THE WHOLE REASON THEY INVADED IRAQ WAS TO ESTABLISH THE AIRBASES THEY NEED TO CARRY ON AN AIR WAR WITH IRAN. That and shutting down Iraq’s oil exports are all the reasons they needed (beyond simple Military Industrial greed).

    When Nixon/Kissinger were trying to clamp down on US casualties, they planned a renewed air war against N. Vietnam. The same strategy here. This will be bombs, bombs, bombs, including hydrogen ones it would seem. They don’t want to invade Iran, they want to replace its government and halve its oil revenue/output.

    As for ‘before Nov,’ no, just after, after the vote-fraud, though they will start the air war a week before the election in ‘secret’ just to shake up the pols.

    As for martial law, nope, just look around you. Imagine martial law in your town. How many people would that require? Here in Los Angeles, they would need 100,000 troops just to start applying martial law to this region of ten million people. The gangs alone would keep them pinned down in the low-rent neighborhoods, when they would need to guard store windows and rich people’s cars on every block.

    Martial law is not upon us for a while yet. If they succeed in stealing the elections and ripping up the Constittution some more over the next two years, then maybe it’s a possibility, but you need FOLLOWERS to hold martial law for more than a fortnight, anywhere in the US. And at 32% they ain’t got enough by far.

  • How low can they go? I don’t know, but you’d have to be a piece of paper to slip under that Republican limbo stick now.

  • Is it me?

    I mean, just this week the Vatican does away with the concept of Limbo.

    Right at the time we’re wondering how low Republicans can go.

    Coincidence? I think not.

    That Karl Rove, he’s a genius. Doing away with Limbo was the October surprise, and we didn’t see it coming.

  • I agree with Paul in LA.

    The news that has been uncovered concerning voter fraud and voter disenfranchisement is appauling. The news media, which have mostly ignored this story, have become enablers for these thieves on this issue.

    The black box voting machines–that are susceptible to tampering, have not been error-proof, and have no paper trail–are increasing in numbers across the country. Jesse Jackson Jr. (yes, his son) has been trying for years to amend the constitution for voting rights in America. See below:

    http://www.house.gov/jackson/VotingRightsFAQ.htm

    We need congress to use subpoena power to investigate this fraud. Since voter fraud is the antithesis of democracy, you would think that all Americans–including Republicans–would demand this. I guess we know better. My question is this:

    If the Republicans (or their local operatives) are stealing, flipping, or stifling votes where these computer voting machines are being used, what makes anyone think the midterm elections won’t be stolen too?

    How many congressional seats are competitive and how many of those competitive seats will be using computer voting machines (ie. Diebold)???

  • I’m with Corrie and Paul in LA. Let’s all print out copies of this particular entry of CB’s, and pull it out the morning after the election, in the event we’ve woken up to learn that “the polls were wrong” because they were “polling too many Democrats,” and the GOP has “defied the experts” and “won a surprising comeback victory.”

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