August 24, 2007 07:20 PM
What the GOP will do with Bush next year
The Politico’s Elizabeth Wilner has a new piece speculating about what the Republican National Convention is going to be like for the outgoing president next year.
Twenty-five hundred delegates to the Republican National Convention pause in their exchange of hellos on this opening night and break into warm if not wild applause. Up to the podium steps George W. Bush....
The piece is speculative, of course, but Steve M. makes the case that the die-hard GOP base will still love Bush next year: "Even a year from now, the party regulars will still be Bush end-timers."
On the other hand, the GOP establishment is looking ahead and wondering: "Where do we hide the president?”
Just place protesters in the middle of the convention and the administration will hide the president for you to keep him from seeing them.
Sort of like asking what the Falcon's would do if they had to Vick playing for a year.
Mike Knowland @ 1:
:lol:
Sorry but who is this GOP establishnment that you are talking about? If you are reminiscing about the GOP of Percy, Goldwater, Baker or Heinz, it no longer exists. The 28 percenters are the establishment.
Bush is the fancy albatross necklace around the GOP's fat neck.
StirFry @ 5:
Do you get wafer's with it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_u7VGiMO0U
I have hope that Bush just may have destroyed the image of the hillbilly president forever. I have to believe that people, in the face of global warming and Iraq and terror and everything else, will start voting for what is actually good for themselves, not based on frail wedge issues. Nobody but Bush misses Karl Rove. Pundits may profess love, but GOP lawmakers and their staffs are sick of him and his arrogance. Bush has plundered the Religious Right and the Reagan legacy.
It could be argued that under the bus is a likely place to hide Bush.
The GOP is full of sharks and Bush is the blood in the water.
Does it really matter? Bush and the democrats and republicans have caused so much death and destruction in this world and all his cronies are lining up to get more billions of your money. I know the US thinks it is the only country in the world, and you guys say you contribute more than any other country, yea in death and destruction. Stop voting for these criminals.
BlueKnuckle @ 9:
Hmmm... more like Homer Simpson in a room full of slow zombies.
did any
of the candidates
say the word bush yet
heh...
The Neo-Nazis of this world will always love the Hitlers of this world. That's just the way it is.
hide him
in the green zone
heh...
Question: Didn't LBJ actually skip the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago because of his unpopularity?
I have no idea what the GOP plan on doing with Bush next year but we need to make sure he and Cheney are front and center through election day.
the gop would applause bush, it he were on stage giving a speach
while sitting on a toilet taking a d-mp.
What they should do involves tar, feathers and a rail.
I'm not so sure about Bush's base...
although I live in a part of this country that still has those "W...the president) stickers...(incredible)
alotta country folk out here dont like whats goin on...
illegal wiretapping while our borders remain wide open dont sit well w/most people down here in Georgia.
Smart people know that a lot of candidates (most) from both major parties are on the (worldwide) corporate payroll.
...It's a start...
Now ... If we can get some of you diehard demmies (bluegal)...to admit that the Democrats ARE NOT GONNA SAVE THE USA
....then we will have made some progress...
p.s.
we dont have to change to being conservative to do this...
Where do we hide the President?
Iraq.
Geez.
In Grant's Tomb.
Custard's coffin.
Gannon's ass.
Remember that it was Al Franken who was the first to predict that Bush wouldn't speak @ the Republican't Contention.
And he's also the person to first come up with what they're calling the Biden plan for 3 Iraqs.
Disney's Hall of Presidents. (Only time he's coherent is when he's repeating what he's program to say.)
Hide the president?
dont have to hide Bush anywhere...
Isn't he always on vacation anyway?
he sat there for a half hour on 9/11 then disappeared.
Katrina.......hiding then too!
you can see it.....whenever a reporter asks a good question (ha!)...you can see it...desperate to hide...
What the hell do we do with Bush and Cheney NOW? Americans need to stop booking ahead and deal with a rogue presidency hell bent on war with Iran. In Bushworld, anything goes so dare to think it.
the righties have already forgotten about Bush's immigration deal. They're back to their culture war Soma and using "Bush Derangement Syndrome " taunts to anyone opposing the junta
Cheney's man-sized safe.
Hide him with the WMDs.
The rpebulican shame will drive them to start billing GW as Reagan. And Cheney as even greater. Cheney being the greatest will come to pass because, the republicans will assign Cheney to find someone that is the greatest. Cheney will look around and find that he (himself), Dick 5 deferment Cheney is the only one he could find qualified to fit that discrption.
It all depends on what happens in the 2008 elections. If Republicans were to win, then Bush will be retired gracefully. But if they lose, just you wait: over-night he'll turn into a "Wilsoninan Liberal" and a "liberal on spending" and we'll be assured that the reason the elections were lost is because the party under the "liberal" Bush betrayed its conservative values. I say this because that's exactly what happened to pappy Bush when he lost to Clinton in '92. I remember it vividly, punks like George Will assuring us that Bush was to liberal, and that's why voters rejected him in favor of... the liberal Bill Clinton (yeah, these pundits' logic is kinda loopy, I know.)
They have to perfume the pig. He's _their_ pig.
And who says they can't do it? This is a country with the expertise to take the worst piece of crap and create a 30 second trailer that makes you think you _should_ pay to see that movie. It would be a challenge but they could probably do the same with Dubya. Make him the center of a multimedia fantasy about the path to a glowing future he has set us upon where he doesn't actually have to say anything substantive.
The DNC in 08 needs to realize that Bush is still their wedge. And they didn't even have to fabricate him. The republicans did a fine job of that themselves.
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