CNN: "It took an hour for anyone to say a kind word about the president."

[journalist3072]

Was reading CNN's coverage of the Republican debate tonight, and this line stood out:

"It took an hour for anyone to say a kind word about the president."

Translation: The Republicans are running and running away from George W. Bush and his failed record.

I'm guessing that we will NOT see George W. Bush out there campaigning for the Republican nominee. They will send him to an undisclosed location right along with Dick Cheney.

[KharmaTrain]

1. Boooooosh Who????

Remember, they couldn't take the asshat out on the trail in the closing days of '06. It was his trip to Missouri that put it over the top for Claire McCaskill. I'll bet he couldn't even show his face now in Wyoming and Utah.

[babylonsister]

2. I'm hoping he won't even be around for much longer. How's THAT

for optimism? :D

[roamer65]

3. Twenty bucks says * won't fade out that gracefully.

I expect him to open his smarmy yap all the way to Jan 2009 and beyond. Wouldn't it be great if the party nominee and him get into a pissing match during the campaign?

[Cobalt-60]

13. Its certain to happen

The Chimp is Fuhrer of the Republicon Party, you know.
Anyone running on change will have to criticize the Incumbent.
I just hope it gets into the open.

[azurnoir]

4. He is theirs

it doesn't matter if they don't mention him by name from what I am reading here this bunch is mouthing his talking points, so really what difference does it make? Do not alloow them to dissociate themselves!!!!!!!

[sam sarrha]

5. no it just took an hour to come up with a Lie that sounded good

[Cha]

6. Geeze, cnn, do you think ya

backed a monkey's ass for 8 years?

[Cleita]

9. LOL!

:rofl:

[Rev. Mother Ramallo]

7. Well, Bush ISN'T going to be on the ballot, you know....

Thank god

[Cobalt-60]

14. None of them are

Thank the Gods!
By the way: Welcome to DU :hi:

[Cleita]

8. No nice words for the Commander Guy?

What is the Republican world coming to. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

[Bravo Zulu]

10. they might not have mentioned chucklenuts

but they are still going to do the same things he did, big wars,big government, tax cuts for the richest one percent,destroy the environment, spy on citizens,invade countries unnecessarily etc. etc.

[K8-EEE]

11. Now BOOOSH Knows How Kenny Boy Felt!

Nobody noticed HIM either after awhile!

[radfringe]

12. that's because they were too busy

digging up reagan so they could ride his coat tails

watching the "lead up" on MSNBC with the blatherheads, it was Reagan this Reagan that. I half expected a guest appearance by the Pope with a official ceremony annointing Reagan as a saint.

For all the bluster about "supporting our president" - it looks like the repub campaigns are going to be molded as reagan wannabes and running away from bush as fast as they can

[Cobalt-60]

16. I actually pity the poor Republicon b*stards, I really do

They had a lifetime invested in 'con politics, working for the ultimate crony reward platform in Oval Office.
They waited generations for all those people who remembered Herbert Hoover to die.
They prostituted themselves to disloyal corporations. They secretly dealt with North Vietnamese and Iranian enemies.
They sucked up to laughably ignorant Religious Fanatics. They prostrated themselves before the likes Falwell and Robertson.
While they were unable to overcome the competent charm of the greatest president since FDR, they did manage to waste a ton of tax money and congressional time trying to smear him.
They threw away the constitution to get their usurper into the White house. They openly cheated in another election to keep him there.
They've killed thousands of Americans and maybe a million foreign citizens in a successful plan to divert tens of billions of tax dollars into graft.
They've decimated our industrial base and deliberately ruined the domestic job market.
In an unprecedented case of craven negligence they have effectively destroyed New Orleans.
And now that the next one is stepping up for his billions in graft - the sheeple have finally caught on.
They're about to be a permanent minority.

[radfringe]

17. all that's missing is

the repubs wearing reagan masks...

send your favorite reagan-wannabe this link: http://www.thelaughingstock.co.uk

[radfringe]

15. GOP Contenders Embrace Reagan Legacy

GOP Contenders Embrace Reagan Legacy
By LIZ SIDOTI 05.04.07, 3:29 AM ET
FORBES.com
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/05/04/ap3685253.html


Ten Republican presidential candidates wanting to replace President Bush embraced a more popular president, conservative icon Ronald Reagan, at every turn in their first debate of the 2008 race.

"Ronald Reagan was a president of strength," Mitt Romney intoned. "Ronald Reagan used to say, we spend money like a drunken sailor," said John McCain. And Rudy Giuliani praised "that Ronald Reagan optimism."

--snip---

Iraq and terrorism now are top issues, support for Bush is at a low point and Republican hopefuls find themselves trying to prove to the party's base that they're conservative enough to be the GOP nominee - on social matters as well as the economic and security issues Reagan championed.

The three leading candidates - Giuliani, McCain and Romney - and their seven lesser-known rivals attempted to do just that Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. They debated for 90 minutes in the shadow of the late president's Air Force One suspended from above and before Reagan's widow, Nancy, who sat in the front row of the audience.

--snip--

One by one, they invoked Reagan 19 times. In contrast, Bush's name was barely uttered; the president's job approval rating languishes in the 30s.

"They went out of the their way on multiple occasions, no matter the question, to associate themselves with Reagan," said Mitchell McKinney, a political communication professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. "They tried their best to not be explicitly bashing or attacking Bush. Most of them tried, in some way, to take a pass on that."

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. Big Deal. I've managed not to say a kind word about him

for over six years now. (And counting!)