Laura Bush’s popularity drops.
A recent Pew Research Center poll finds that First Lady Laura Bush’s favorability rating has dropped “sharply” in recent years, right along with her husband’s numbers. Once “almost universally liked” (with a 70 percent approval rating in Aug. 2004), just a slim majority of Americans (54 percent) now have a favorable impression of the first lady.
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“Life in the bubble is comfortable.”
January 31st, 2008 at 10:45 amThe sinkhole of Bush Popularity claims another victim…..
January 31st, 2008 at 10:45 amEh… so?
She’s been a non-person for most of the presidency anyway.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:45 amLaura is popular? Since WHEN?
January 31st, 2008 at 10:45 amPlummeting Pickles.
-GSD
January 31st, 2008 at 10:46 amWe have a First Lady??
January 31st, 2008 at 10:48 amwhats the point of this? that woman is and always has been irrelevant
January 31st, 2008 at 10:48 am54% that high? yikes….maybe she should go on tv and justify her husband’s genocide some more…..we can get those numbers down to Georgy porgy’s
January 31st, 2008 at 10:50 amRumor has it that she’s been blowing a little dope.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:51 amLaura’s been useless from day one.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:52 amXanax is such a lovely place. Or is that Xanadu?
January 31st, 2008 at 10:53 amRove’s not a dope. And he’s not little either. Bad rumor.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:53 amShe married George W Bush. That pretty much says it all.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:55 amLaura Bush has pretty much managed to live under the radar during the presidency, except for the times that they trot her out to speak in favor of banning stem cell research or some other point of Dubya’s agenda, which she robotically delivers. This has resulted in many Americans not really knowing her — unlike other first ladies who have blazed forth with their own identities, such as Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, Betty Ford, Jackie Kennedy, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
As a result, Laura’s popularity pretty much depends on that of her husband. Factor in the “Hillary Clinton effect” — I’m sure there are many with whom Laura has lost favor because she insists on staying married to somebody objectionable.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:56 amAs the wife of the worst, most incompetent president in US history, her place in history is firmly set.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:57 amThe Laura-Bot… she looked wonderfully Stepford-ian at the SOTU.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:01 amHow dare anyone insult the Paxil soaked First Zombie.
-GSD
January 31st, 2008 at 11:01 amIt’s kinda hard to have a favorable rating when much of the country has no clue what she’s all about.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:06 amLaura has been crashing and running stop signs at high speed her whole life.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:12 am“Maybe they should change the name from thinkprogress.org to popularitycontest.com.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008″
Funny coming from the arrogant “REDSTATE AMERICA” boasters after the 2000 election.
Back then everything was about how popular the GOP was and how much of the nation was supposedly Red.
Funny, now that Bush is a plague, suddenly the GOP-ers find popularity a childish metric of measurement.
Funny dat.
-GSD
January 31st, 2008 at 11:13 amIt’s pretty clear from the chart that LaLa’s popularity rises and falls with that of GDumbya. Hers just hasn’t fallen as much as his because she is zonked on martinis and Xanax 24/7.
GDumbya, on the other hand, has to sober up every once in awhile to appear in public. Of course, he still has a high BAC when he does and always to make a greater fool of himself.
If LaLa had to do the same, she would be as reviled as the sot to whom she is married.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:14 amLaura Shrub is No#1 in the hearts and minds of all driving school instructors …………
January 31st, 2008 at 11:23 amWhy O why won’t he come out in favor of terrorism? Then everyone would stop doing it!
January 31st, 2008 at 11:23 amDoes Laura Bush do anything other than smile that stupid smile of hers?
Oh wait, she coordinated the WH’s Christmas decorations.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:29 amLike the woman herself this news doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:31 amLaura is THE living embodiment of the Stepford Wives-a mindless, brain-dead zombie. Life imitating art.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:32 amHere’s some quotes about the importance of popularity:
http://thinkexist.com/quotations/popularity/
Here’s a good one from Lincoln:
“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.â€
Comment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 11:32 am
Popularity is unnecessary if one possesses intelligence , discipline , compassion and prudence …….
Oh well , Chimpy can always look forward to his meeting with Jesus in the afterlife.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:36 am“Here’s some quotes about the importance of popularity”
Wow. So Democracy doesn’t work.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:37 amComment by CaptainMantastic — January 31, 2008 @ 11:32 am
Hey Crapstain
What else other than popularity would a useless , brainless mannequin like Laura Shrub have ?
She doesn’t actually do or contribute to anything……..
January 31st, 2008 at 11:39 amI cannot respect anyone who would marry, and stay married, to such a twat.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:48 amJust the name “BUSH” gives off negative energy.
If I were named “Bush” I would change my name.
Buck Fush
January 31st, 2008 at 11:51 amI cannot respect anyone who would marry, and stay married, to such a twat.
Comment by Frosty Cupcake
Or, in Billary’s case, stay married to your cheating husband for purely political reasons.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:53 am“She doesn’t actually do or contribute to anything……..” Comment by MCMetal — January 31, 2008 @ 11:39 am
Well, she “contributed” to the death of a high-school friend when, at the age of 17, she ran a stop sign on a clear night near Midland, Texas.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:53 amLaura Bush has been nothing more than a classic Stepford wife. Who can like a zombie. I am surprised 54% still give approval but then over 30% still approve of George W.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:16 pmDemocrat Soldier, the victim was an ex boy friend wasn’t he? Freshly ex?
January 31st, 2008 at 12:18 pmIf I were named “Bush†I would change my name.
Comment by Buckie Boy
I agree, Busch would be more appropriate.
A∞Ω
January 31st, 2008 at 12:19 pmI don’t feel anything more or less for Laura Bush than I do for a department store mannequin at the mall.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:30 pmI admire her. She did her own killing.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:34 pmI cannot respect anyone who would marry, and stay married, to such a twat.
Comment by Frosty Cupcake — January 31, 2008 @ 11:48 am
Um…did you mean to say “twit”? Or are you suggesting that Bush is part of the female anatomy?
But you illustrate my point — Hillary Clinton’s popularity ultimately dropped after the Monica Lewinsky scandal (after an initial sympathy spike) because people were angry with her for staying married to Bill. And there are many whose respect for Laura Bush has gone south because she stays married to a moron.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:45 pmAnd there are many whose respect for Laura Bush has gone south because she stays married to a moron.
Comment by missmolly — January 31, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
As if it’s within the realm of possibility that someone with an inkling of a clue would have her ?
Not a chance in hell.
There’s a reason why her and the Shrub are still together
January 31st, 2008 at 12:54 pmI admit I was being crude, missmolly, but only because I don’t know enough invectives to fully express my contempt for him.
Generally, in real life, I’m reduced to the F bomb.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:55 pmThere is a rumor that she is going to devorce him next year. I don’t know how she can stand that idiot?
January 31st, 2008 at 1:21 pmWhat has Laura done besides campaign for her husband (something she once said she would never do)?
January 31st, 2008 at 1:32 pmShe certainly hasn’t been a role model for American women, has she? If so, what is her message? Quit your career and stay behind your husband’s shadow? There aren’t many women who can afford to do that, are there?
If you lie down with dogs, you may get up with fleas.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:53 pm#37 - “Democrat Soldier, the victim was an ex boy friend wasn’t he? Freshly ex?” Comment by nanlichi — January 31, 2008 @ 12:18 pm
Good question! Mrs. Bush won’t talk about it, and nobody else seems willing. Maybe VPres. Cheney has offered to go hunting with anyone who does? ;-)
January 31st, 2008 at 2:02 pmwho cares about GW’s crosseyed pet goat?
January 31st, 2008 at 2:45 pmWhat does it even matter?
January 31st, 2008 at 2:59 pmI dunno. Morbid curiosity? Why in the world would anyone stay married to a war criminal, a crook, a liar?
It boggles the mind.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:02 pmJust imagine for a minute what it would be like to be married to W…selfish, arrogant, lying, demanding, mean, evil….probably an abuser.
Is she free to leave? Just imagine the divorce proceedings…Maybe she would just be disappeared.
If I were married to that prick, I would stay heavily medicated too.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:21 pmSleeping with a War Criminal does that…
Plus the drunken kids…
Bad mothering runs deep in the Botch klan…
just look at Botch’s mother Babs!!
January 31st, 2008 at 7:32 pmHer ratings are higher than the Democrat Congress!!!
January 31st, 2008 at 7:57 pmComment by dixie blood — January 31, 2008 @ 7:32 pm
Addition…Bad fathers also screw up the kids. GHW Botch shares half the blame for his useless kids!!
January 31st, 2008 at 8:30 pmShe slept with the first loser to come down the pike.
Of all the losers she could’ve run into……
January 31st, 2008 at 9:19 pmLaura Braun??
February 1st, 2008 at 7:57 amLaura Bush looks like Betty Crocker. Badly needs a total makeover. And, no I don’t like her. Anyone who could marry George W. Bush, let alone defend his policies which she has actively done, makes me want to barf.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:33 pmLaura Braun….ROFLMAO…that is priceless, Domino…
February 4th, 2008 at 9:34 pm