Bush Has Become the Republicans’ Jimmy Carter
Written by Sam on May 29th, 2007So says Newt:
Newt Gingrich is one of those who fear that Republicans have been branded with the label of incompetence. He says that the Bush Administration has become a Republican version of the Jimmy Carter Presidency, when nothing seemed to go right. “It’s just gotten steadily worse,” he said. “There was some point during the Iranian hostage crisis, the gasoline rationing, the malaise speech, the sweater, the rabbit”—Gingrich was referring to Carter’s suggestion that Americans wear sweaters rather than turn up their thermostats, and to the “attack” on Carter by what cartoonists quickly portrayed as a “killer rabbit” during a fishing trip—“that there was a morning where the average American went, ‘You know, this really worries me.’ ” He added, “You hire Presidents, at a minimum, to run the country well enough that you don’t have to think about it, and, at a maximum, to draw the country together to meet great challenges you can’t avoid thinking about.” Gingrich continued, “When you have the collapse of the Republican Party, you have an immediate turn toward the Democrats, not because the Democrats are offering anything better, but on a ‘not them’ basis. And if you end up in a 2008 campaign between ‘them’ and ‘not them,’ ‘not them’ is going to win.”
Pretty hard to argue with that.
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I’ll argue with it; Gingrich is simply running away from the war in Iraq because it is impopular. Worse, he is exploiting it for his own political gain.
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The war in Iraq needs running away from, if the Bush administration wasn’t so damned incompetant then politicians on both sides wouldn’t be ducking for cover from it. Bush has brought this on himself by being one of the dumbest men to hold office since Carter.
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Bush is the dumbest president than Carter.
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Actually, I want to make a point here. I’ve met Jimmy Carter and I can’t stand him.
That said, he’s darn intelligent. However, have you ever met someone who was really book smart and had zippo common sense? That’s Carter, and it makes him look like a raging idiot.
I’ve met Bush, but I’ve never held a long conversation with him. Therefore, I can’t make the same kind of assessment of his intelligence, though I will say he comes across dumber than Carter due to his communication skills (or lack there of).
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I guess Gingrich wasn’t getting enough attention from not-running for president yet. So he couragesouly bashed the President to the liberal media…NOT. But from a man who left his wife on her death-bed, I would not expect anything better.
Or maybe Bush is like Carter by deciding that it was time for America to stand up to the people who threaten to destory America in the face of enormous liberal opposition…no, that sounds more like Reagen to me.