Christine Todd Whitman's Bush "Bash" book out inauguration week

[wyldwolf]

Sorry - another story on Drudge. Like a bad car accident, I just can't help but look.

Perhaps further indication that mainstream (if such an animal exists) republicans are growing tired of the Bush gang.

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Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor who was President Bush's first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has written a book that touts the importance of moderates to the future of the Republican Party and flays Bush and his team for ignoring the country's middle.

Whitman charges on Page 3 that Bush's three-percentage-point margin in the popular vote is the lowest of any incumbent president ever to win reelection, the WASHINGTON POST reports in coming editions, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE.

IT'S MY PARTY TOO: THE BATTLE FOR THE HEART OF THE GOP AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA streets during inauguration week, insuring heavy media coverage

"The numbers show that while the president certainly did energize his political base, the red state/blue state map changed barely at all, suggesting that he had missed an opportunity to significantly broaden his support in the most populous areas of the country," Whitman writes. "The Karl Rove strategy to focus so rigorously on the narrow conservative base won the day, but we must ask at what price to governing and at what risk to the future of the party."

Whitman details her many scars and frustrations in dealing with what she calls the "antiregulatory lobbyists and extreme antigovernment ideologues" that she suggests hold too much sway over the Republican party.

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Interesting. Perhaps the fabled Reagan Democrats will come home in 2006 and 2008?

But how many here want them back?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Guess Christie's invitation to the Inaugural got lost in the mail . . .

[molly]

2. If we gotta have em, we are better off with moderates

interesting, tho, how many of his cabinet have written scathing books about him. Isn't he the one that insists on absolute loyalty? No wonder - if he doesn't DEMAND it, he knows he'll never get it.

[Prodemsouth]

8. Karl Rove thanks you for that train of thought. This is for a statewide

consumption. Senate in 06.. aayy Christie? Many here are already buying it. All these people bashing Lieberman..and defending their beloved Lincoln Chaffee- Look at their ADL and AFL-CIO ratings and tell me who is the RINO/DINO. I am beginning to think the right wingers are smarter than we are. Who says we have to live with only having "moderate" Republicans as the best option. Does anyone really think the GOP is going to moderate because of Christie and Arnold said so? I have a bridge I would like to sell you if you do think that. Again the concern is with voters in blue states, making sure they continue to back "moderate" Repugs, not changing the national Republican Party. If people were smart they would continue to stroke the resentment at Bush being relected or selected in the blues states they live in..instead of trying to have some Senator make a symbolic statement on Nov 6th.

[stevedeshazer]

3. I felt a strange sense of pity for Whitman

Then I woke up.

[DELUSIONAL]

4. What a creepy photo of bushita

Is that guy really human?

Is his whole family even human?

And no I don't feel sorry for any GOPig that bushita dumps on.

[TexasChick]

14. Good grief! Look at that Chimp! Geez! n/t

[deadparrot]

5. Yeeeah, moderates. I'm sure * and his minions find them very important.

The time for moderation, especially in the right wing, is over.

[autorank]

6. Me think the lady doth protest to little.

She helped preside over the plan to destroy the fucking world as we know it, yes the world. Failure to loudly and clearly enunciate the grave perils of global warming is a crime against the globe. And where was she when this was being done, when junk science was being used to dismiss the obvious trends? She was nowhere.

Who cares about the Republican Party. She should be more concerned about all the people of the world who will have to live through eco-catastrophes because of Bush and, to a degree, because of her insipid, mealy mouthed, pseudo environmentalism. When the house is burring, you should fire.

Thanks Christie, glad we hardly knew ya.

[wyldwolf]

7. I might be remembering wrong, and I'm sure I'll be corrected if so...

...but I believe she broke with Bush over a doctored global warming report.

Am I right or confusing my facts?

[autorank]

20. You may be right, I don't know. I would have known if she had given

a press conference and announced that her resignation was due to * bring the planet and its various peoples to the point of grave peril because global warming was being ignored. Here is a link to the Pentagon tome on that subject, quite revealing and I'm sure she knew all of this since she had access to some of the best information in the world.

http://www.icomm.ca/survival/pentagon_climate_change.pdf

I like your sig line and pics! Cheers

[kwolf68]

9. I know CTW

Was lied to and manipulated by the Bush cabal, but this is a case of a little too little and a little too late.

Maybe her voice could have been useful ohh say....2 months ago. Kerry was unable to break through the media filter and was fairly inept in his own in countering the Bush lie-machine, especially in regards to regulatory reform and environmental issues.

I remember vividly the debate where Bush said the air and water has gotten cleaner during his time. YES, it had...because of legislation Bill Clinton signed. Bush said he was a "good steward of the environment" and I remember Kerry did not do a damn thing to debunk that bullshit.

Whittman should now wake up and realize that the Republicans are not moderate. They only keep Northeastern moderates around to give Southern Right-Wing wackos power. Who is running this nation? Southern Republicans. That is why I think our only hope is NOT to gain moderate Dems in the South, but take out moderate Republicans in the North.

Whittman would be the first to go. if she was still in office.

[SharonAnn]

10. Anyone who votes Republican today supports * and his policies.

You vote for him - you vote for his policies.

Any Republican who serves in appointed position for him or campaigns for him supports * and his policies. You support him - you support his policies.

His policies are no secret, they're just his demonstrated Texas policies on a larger and more agressive scale.

I was a Republican moderate years ago and I stopped voting Republican after Reagan had been in office 2 years. That was it! I support the environment, women's rights, and separation of church and state. Therefore, I cannot vote Republican or I would be supporting pollution, subjugation of women, and integration of church and state. It's that simple.

If you support him, you support his policies. If she didn't know this, than she's dumber than I think.

If being a Republican is her only core value (and the only core value of many others) than I don't think much of her values.

So don't come crying to me, sister.

[BOHICA06]

11. But CTW didn't deliver the election ....

the far-right did, the moderates had no where else to go. Sort of like the Democrats going to the center and expecting those on the left to just take it. Chrisee, to late to whine now - you had your chance 11/2.

[keith the dem]

12. I'm a Jersey resident

Did not like Whitless as Governor; however compared to * she is very moderate and before 2000 was gaining a lot of positive national exposure. I am convinced that * put her in a position where she would soon look like a failed idiot to neutralize the moderate threat to the extreme right. Rove finished her off like the evil pro he is.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. "But how many here want them back?"

Why on earth would we not want Reagan Democrats back?

Before anyone jumps down my throat, I am not espousing the great rightward tilt everyone is so against. I'm against it, too.

Our core values are right in line with the majority of Americans, and that surely includes Reagan Democrats. The Republican party has damned little to offer them, while we have much to offer.

I really scratch my head at the suggestion that we don't want certain votes. I know it has to do with fearing a change in stance on certain issues, but anyone knows that no one candidate and no one party meets *all* their needs. We just have to talk *to* these voters and let them know we represent *more* of their needs than the Republicans do.

[tsuki]

25. I agree.

[zulchzulu]

15. Hopefully the first in a long line of former Bush cabinet members...

I know...there have been others (O'Neill/Clark...), but this looks like the gloves may be off.

Thanks Christie!

[zulchzulu]

16. Rove responds: Whitman is a lesbian porn actress who eats dead babies

Developing...

[Stinky The Clown]

18. I didn't know that ........

at least not the dead baby part. I knew about eating little ones, but I thought it was alive.

That Rove sure knows his shit, huh?

[DieboldMustDie]

17. Too bad it didn't come out 3 months ago.

:shrug:

[IndyPriest]

19. WTF!? Wasn't Whitman on the platform with Bush at rallies?

I wonder if she was writing her book at the same time. :puke:

[Sleepless In NY]

21. Jimmy Breslin described her as "Not much of a human being"

Jimmy Breslin: "Christine Whitman was the EPA head until recently. I wasn't disturbed that her education was a jump horse school, but I thought she was better than standing up and doing what she was told by George Bush's White House, telling lies to a public who had to breathe this air. Turns out she isn't much of a human being. The EPA has just admitted that they lied for all this time."

from: "The Air Is Thick With Lies" (effects of 9/11 on Air quality)
by Jimmy Breslin http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0824-03.htm

Whitman is just like McCain they talk out of both sides of their lying mouths. She knows only a moderate can win in NJ, so after kissing bush's butt, she will now try a different angle with New Jersey voters to get herself elected. If she gets into the senate, her "views" will change once again. Nothing but a bush ho.

[Radical Activist]

22. Is she running for President?

That my explain the decision to release the book now instead of before the election.

[LynnTheDem]

23. The bitch who LIED to NYers, COVERED UP for bush, and said it was SAFE

to go back to living & working in the 911 area when EPA's own results said it was NOT SAFE.

Now we have thousands of SERIOUSLY ILL citizens and the death toll in the aftermath, thanks to bush & the bitch, will EXCEED the 3000 killed in teh actual attacks.

[radfringe]

24. when you work for bush* -- you best be ready to

either fall on your sword or drink kool-aid