How the Dems Saved Bush
I ask you, how can you not love an article with that title? Dick Morris offers his opinion on why President Bush’s poll ratings are rising and it isn’t good news for Democrats. Here’s a sampling:
Bush’s Democratic and liberal critics tend to see opposition to the war in Iraq and complaints about domestic spying as two sides of the same coin, both positions that defend what they see as our values in the face of government recklessness. But while the critics have a plurality on the question of whether the war in Iraq was a mistake, they’re in the minority in complaining about the Bush anti-terror policies at home.
I suspect that the plurality that Morris talks about on ‘Iraq as a mistake’ is changing. I suspect that the truth from Iraq is winning people over daily. It’s impossible for me to believe that President Bush’s rise is purely philosophical.
It’s obvious that good news from the region is changing opinions. President Bush’s series of speeches challenged Democratic misinformation with facts on the ground. They also laid out the President’s plans and how they were working. They were a stark contrast to the Iraq that John Murtha talked about.
Murtha’s whining claims that soldiers were “living hand to mouth” and that we needed to immediately redeploy to Kuwait and Okinawa weren’t a match to the President’s citiing specific examples of how his plan was working.
Morris is right on, though, in citing the fact that Democrats are in a distinct minority on the NSA wiretap non-controversy. Michael Barone said on Hugh Hewitt’s show that this issue broke 64-23 in Republicans’ favor and that he’d love going into a campaign “with a 64-23 advantage” on such an important issue. I totally agree.
There was a time when the Democratic Party reached out to the rest of the world. That party is now long gone. They also used to have a strong ‘hawk’ wing to their party but they’ve now migrated to the Republican Party.
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRing