Fleischer: Bush is a liability for conservatives.
Fleischer: Bush is a liability for conservatives.
Bloomberg writes, “There is an invisible man in the 2008 election: the president of the United States. Republican candidates have all but shunned him, save those who need him to help raise money.” Even former Bush spokesman, Ari Fleischer, admitted that the President’s presence would “hurt the party and hurt John McCain.” Some examples of Republican candidates’ reactions to Bush:
— “[T]here’s nothing in the works with Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi. ‘Senator Wicker is running his own race,’ campaign spokesman Ryan Annison said.”
– “There are lots of places he’s not likely to go, like the Hampton Roads region in southeast Virginia. ‘We haven’t even discussed it,’ said Corry Bliss, campaign manager for Virginia U.S. Representative Thelma Drake, when asked about a Bush visit. ‘This campaign is about next year and the future.‘”
– “Asked whether the nominee would be appearing with President Bush this fall, McCain’s campaign chief Rick Davis gave an emphatic no, saying ‘we’ve turned that page.’”
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So they are running from Bush like he is a plague rat. They didnt CARE how bad he hurt America but hurting their election chances well that is just rude.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:29 pmMatthews (Hardball) has been haranguing Republicans who appear on his show about “taking off their uniforms” and running against their own party. He has a point–is it really the Republicans we need to save us from the Republicans?
September 17th, 2008 at 5:29 pmSay what you want to about Chimpy but a part of me will be forever thankful for the man. He came a long at a time when the Democratic party was about to breath her last and gave her CPR.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:29 pmBush is a liability to freedom and democracy… so I guess that can include conservatives too.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:30 pmAri Fleischer of Freedom’s Watch fame? What poisonous gems do they have in store for us?
Look behind the curtain of the coming negative ad avalanche. Ari’s one of the players. Pay attention, people.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:30 pmConservatives, including President Numbnuts and VP Face of Evil, are a liability to a safe and prosperous US!
September 17th, 2008 at 5:33 pmBush has been a liability to the whole country, mostly from following “conservative” policies and playing the permanent campaign game. Conservatives shed him like a used condom, at least temporarily.
Delay and Santorum are still about. George W. will be as well. The average citizen has no use for any of the three rats.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:34 pmMcCain’s campaign chief Rick Davis gave an emphatic no, saying ‘we’ve turned that page.’”
Uh, McBush and Caribou Nazi are page 2 of that book.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:34 pmGee… i guess it’s up to us, the inhabitants of the blogosphere, to keep pointing out, over and over again, that George Botch is/was a GOOPer.
Over and over and over and over again.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:34 pmExcellent!!!!!!!!
Throw the bastard under the bus.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:34 pmCancervatives are a liability to the continued existence of the US ……………….
September 17th, 2008 at 5:35 pmRepublicans on TV keep saying, Look Bush’s name is not going to be on the ballot in November.
The response should be, but the Republican Party’s name will be on the ballot.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:35 pmPhoto caption contest: “Oh God! What have I done?”
September 17th, 2008 at 5:36 pmThe same clowns who are supporting McCain now are the ones who voted in Bush and then supported him in the house and congress while he destroyed the Constitution and the economy and lied us into war. These same fools are now telling us how McSame will fix everything that they have destroyed and they want us to believe them. Just who are the crazy ones.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:36 pmBush has only made it obvious how the conservatives intend to screw, and to keep screwing, the middle/lower classes. That is why Bush is a liability to conserviatives. He has tipped their hand.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:37 pmThe entire Bush Krime Family is a liability to the Human Race.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:37 pmDick Cheney believes history will absolve the Busheviks of their alleged crimes.
To be certain, he’s created a whole, new, document-security classification to prevent the release of any potentially incriminating records inside the possibility of living memory.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:37 pmAccording to a remarkably feckless Barton Gellman, talking to Terri Gross yesterday.
Want more of the same?
Vote
John McBush/Sarah Quayle ‘08
September 17th, 2008 at 5:38 pmPhoto caption: “Crap. How long has my fly been open?”
September 17th, 2008 at 5:39 pmNow the Republicans are telling us how the “people” don’t want to play the blame game and that Bush is old news and not worth discussing. That’s the same way they blew over the Iraq war by saying that it didn’t matter any more how we got into it but what we were going to do about it now. Why has the MSM allowed the Rethugs to tell the people what should or shouldn’t be discussed and when.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:39 pmCaption: “I think I found the economy!”
September 17th, 2008 at 5:40 pmsatirev,
Thanks for reminding me of PNAC. I read it some time ago and it scared me quite a bit. Those bastards are still out there and pushing it. GW was a minor player. Watch out for Jeb and the rest of the background criminals.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:40 pmOh how the dismal has fallen. I wonder if Laura and Barney still like the loser. A short time until his ‘rein of error’ of over.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:40 pmVote McStain/Pallid : USA RIP.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:44 pm#30: I could not have said it better myself!
September 17th, 2008 at 5:46 pmThey may have “turned that page” but they are still reading out of the same damn book. Obama/Biden needs to keep pounding that point home until November.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:47 pmAnd another Repub gets tossed under the McCain/Palin bus. Unfortunatewly that bus is driving in the same direction that Bush/Cheney drove.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:49 pmKnow the difference between Bush and McCain?
September 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pmGood stuff, satirev.
On a related note. Flippy’s Chippy’s “approval rating” is down 10 points since Saturday, and even Zogby has the Obama/Biden ticket back in front. Methinks that Flippy and Chippy are sinking. Let’s all resolve to keep throwing them anchors.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:52 pmAbout ten years?
September 17th, 2008 at 5:53 pmJinx!
September 17th, 2008 at 5:54 pmKnow the difference between Bush and McCain?
About nine years?
September 17th, 2008 at 5:54 pmhey quit stealing my jokes :)
September 17th, 2008 at 5:55 pmCount Istvan Says:
Know the difference between Bush and McCain?
About ten years?
I was asking…I dont know the difference. =)
September 17th, 2008 at 5:55 pmsatirev Says:
StratRat: W’s own prophesy is coming to fruition…..all he’s got left are Barney and Laura!
…And that makes me smile. I wonder how many Xananx’s Laura is up to each day. Must be quite a handfull.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:56 pmOther than age there isn’t any. McCain might win a game of trivial pursuit if they sat down an played. Of course if McCain lost he would just get mad and flip over the board.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:56 pmThey wish he was the worst of their problems.
It’s the nutjob ideology fellas – really.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:58 pmFile this in the ‘NO SHIT SHERLOCK’ Department. Geez.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:00 pmbush is a liability to God….God told me he threw Ike at Crawford….and just missed.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:09 pmFleischer: Bush is a liability to conservatives
No Ari, conservatives are a liability to conservatives.
Conservative dumb asses have voted in lock step with Preznit Dumbass for over 7 and a half years and now, suddenly, he’s a liability? How did this happen?
If conservatives want someone to blame for their problems, they need only look in a mirror.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:25 pmThe new refrain of the trolls and the McDepends campaign:
September 17th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Caption for the picture of Dubya:
“But Mom! I don’t want to go to Time Out in Paraguay!!!
September 17th, 2008 at 6:30 pmAll those sycophantic republican congressmen and women who sucked up to Bush for the past 7 1/2 years should be made to wear a big “R” on their foreheads, until Nov 4!
September 17th, 2008 at 6:47 pmTom Baker: “It’s the nutjob ideology fellas – really.”
Exactly! Bush was just the frontman; the suit. It’s the ideology that doesn’t work. And, you really can’t expect people who don’t believe in civil government to a good job at managing civil government.
September 17th, 2008 at 7:18 pmgummitch Says:
Photo caption: “Crap. How long has my fly been open?”
“And why didn’t anyone else notice?”
September 17th, 2008 at 8:47 pmWe’re all so eager to turn another page in history. The most horrendous 8 yrs in the history of this nation. Jam-packed with lies, usurpation of power, deaths, hijacks, theft, misleading manipulation, illegal wire-tapping, neglected war veterans, you name it!
Those are just highlights of the bizarre world of GWBush! By stealing the 2000 election, Bush’s illegitimate presidency started off on the wrong foot. And ever since then, it has been as if this country had been bitten by venomous snake.
8yrs later this nation is not the nation I grew up to love and respect. Completely the opposite! And now, were getting to see the latest product of this failed presidency : economic collapse!
September 18th, 2008 at 1:19 ams/b anti-Americans (although ant-Americans might be just as scary)
September 18th, 2008 at 8:18 amBush the man is NOT the direct problem or liability. It’s the neoconservatives, PNAC, AIPAC and the rest of the ant-American self serving punks that have been the whisper in Bush’s ear for the last eight years. You wouldn’t hear it from the MSM but these same scumbags are entrenched in the McCain circle. They, along with McCain’s overly cozey ties to the rest of his team of lobbyists and robber barons like Phil Gramm are running the McCain/Palin campaign. THIS IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE HAMMERED HOME BY THE OBAMA CAMP! Does anyone think that change would be POSSIBLE from a McCain Presidency that will be surrounded by the same criminals that advised and scripted the Bush policies? Probably worse than Bush with Phil Gramm as Treasurer and Lieberman as Head of the State Dept.!
September 18th, 2008 at 8:18 amA liability to conservatives, our country, and the whole damn planet for that matter!
Just a few months left. Just a few months left….
September 18th, 2008 at 8:19 amHey, how did my correction show up before the actual post? Weird
September 18th, 2008 at 8:21 amBush is a liability for humanity.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:16 pm