GOP voters want someone who’s not like Bush

[maseman]

Source: MSNBC

WASHINGTON - When it comes to looking for a presidential nominee, Republican voters may not want a full divorce, but they certainly want at least a trial separation from President Bush.

In the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll out Wednesday night, about half of all Republicans (48 percent) want a candidate who takes a “different approach” from that of the president, while just 38 percent want a “similar approach.” This is a reversal from April, the last time the question was asked, when 50 percent wanted a candidate who took a similar approach as opposed to 41 percent who wanted a different one.

“In April, the calibration was that you had to be sotto voce on Bush. Now the question is, how strong of a voice do Republicans come out with,” said Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who with Republican pollster Neil Newhouse conducts the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.



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What happened GOP? I thought Shrubby was the one you all wanted to sit down and have a beer with. even the GOPerverts are trying to move away from the nutjob. This is good news. It means much confusion in the Repuke party.

[rpannier]

1. Then how come they're all running like they wanna be him? nt

[YOY]

3. All save Ron Paul

He's a different kind of nutty...

[debbierlus]

2. What kind of corporate puppet should I be? Little bit more intellectual

Wtf?

They are all a bunch of lying whores. This type of political discussion is so pathetic. What kind of fake image should we present to the public!

Gross.

[tanyev]

4. Welcome to our world.

What took you so freaking long?

[Downtown Hound]

5. Okay GOP, some rules for your makeover

Your next candidate must be able to speak in complete sentences.

Your next candidate must not ignore dozens of warnings about impending attacks on America and then sit there like an idiot and do nothing when those attacks occur.

Your next candidate must not promise to get the man responsible for said attacks, invade a country to get such man, and then abandon said search for "the evil one" in favor of invading country that had nothing to do with it.

Your next candidate must not shred the Bill of Rights and think he's above the law.

Your next candidate must not ignore warnings of a massive hurricane about to strike an American city, and then go on vacation when said hurricane occurs, then do nothing to help with the rescue, and realize that your rescue is fucked anyways because the people you chose to lead in time of crisis have no qualifications to do so other than being your friends.

Your next candidate will possess some basic level of understanding of military strategy beyond that of playing video games on an Xbox. I'm not saying he has to be General Patton, but he will not get us bogged down in a war year after year and repeat the same useless tactics over and over again thinking that maybe, just maybe, they might work this time.

Your next candidate will not give tax cuts to the ultra wealthy at the expense of everybody else.

Okay, I realize that last one is pressing it. I mean, you are Republicans after all. But all those earlier ones are stupid even for your party. Get rid of those, and at least come back to the world of the sane, and that will be a giant step forward.

[rurallib]

6. I wonder how they will handle him at the convention

I think that may be the highlight of the summer. How can they have a convention without speaking of him ? How can they avoid an appearance. Hope it's later than ours, so as we go into the final campaign we have the image of the Chimp at the convention to splash all over.

[Alcibiades]

16. Shazam! You get your wish.

They have set up the schedule. These things are big, so unless a hurricane hits either Colorado or Minnesota, these dates are firm. From the wikipedia entry:

"It (the Democratic National Convention) is scheduled to be held from Monday, August 25, through Thursday, August 28, 2008, in Denver, Colorado. (The 2008 Republican National Convention is planned to start just 4 days later, on September 1, 2008, in St. Paul, Minnesota)."

At this point, the one who's toeing the Bush line most is Mitt Romney. I think you're right--the Republicans think having their convention so soon after ours will minimize the lead the convention gives our nominee. I think it will only serve to remind voters that the Republicans don't deserve another chance to ruin the future of America's children, because Bush hit the ball out of the park on that one.

[Mz Pip]

7. Big Wow

Huge surprise that even the most conservative of voters do not want a pig ignorant dumbshit asshole to occupy the White House in their name again.

Except for those few on the lower end of the Bell Curve to whom Bush looks downright brilliant. :crazy:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[liberal N proud]

8. They could always vote Democrat

I had a former bu$h supporter today confess that his vote was a terrible mistake and that he actually like several of the Democratic candidates. All but Hillary and Kucinich he said. Sounds like a future Democratic voter that hasn't been counted in the POLLS

[iaviate1]

9. Perhaps it's a good thing the Corporate Dems are leading the polls.

The republicans like them, so we better vote for them too.

[OHdem10]

10. Guilliani will be Bush in Spades and his latest polls show him way

put front.

[gateley]

11. What I'm having difficulty digesting is that there are still 38% who want a similar approach. nt

[iaviate1]

14. 4 out of 10 are idiots.

Not surprising to me. I guess we can be glad we're not one of them =).

[onehandle]

12. They should nominate Jesus.

Only now they must realize that George W. Bush is the diametric opposite of the Prince of Peace.

[Cha]

13. So this wouldn't be a good time

for the carlyles to run jebbie? HAHA.

[unkachuck]

15. the repugs....

....confuse me....the chimpster loves and takes care of his base....the corporations got their wars and tax breaks, the fundies got their judges and their anti-roe, anti-gay, anti-everthing government and what do we get from our side?

....a stinkin' minimum wage increase that takes full effect in 20 years,(we'll give it to you as long as dollar devaluation and inflation render it meaningless) and don't spend it all in one place....

....the pukes are ungrateful crying babies who should be embracing their chimp and his clones....and we're chumps....

[Alcibiades]

17. Senator Grassley was on C-SPAN today

Talking about the SCHIP veto, and boy was he hot. He attacked Bush, he attacked his fellow Senate Republicans, he looked like the maverick the media make him out to be. (How is it that they can describe him as a "moderate Republican?" This guy's voting record is nearly as conservative as Larry Craig's!)

I cannot imagine this two years ago. Grassley looked almost as if he truly cared more for the children of America more than his corporate overlords. He's not even up for election until 2010! If members of the Senate minority leadership who are not even up for election this cycle are moving away from Bush, it only shows what a stinking, fetid, putrid corpse this administration has become!

[calimary]

18. If they're so busy hurrying away from him, then how come they keep

propping him up with vote after vote on issue and issue?

:banghead:

[AllyCat]

19. And remember, McCain thinks his veto of SCHIP was a good plan

McCain is an idiot. He's the most like Shrub though.

[flaminbats]

20. Repukes want a talented lier!

Republican voters have become sick of explaining Bush's philosophy every time they admit voting for him. Reagan had a philosophy which was disproved by the time he left office, and at least Bush Sr. was a talented lier.

Bush doesn't have a philosophy, he just says anything that sounds nice to him. as Bush would tell you.."we can hear our own voices, even if they sound altered by air." :crazy:

[alfredo]

21. From now on Rudy is "Bush Lite." We need to start drawing

comparisons between him and bush.