Curtis CCR wrote:


I tend to think the Bush is liked a lot more than most liberal
screamers would want the public to believe.

Probably so. He appears to be a very amiable, likable guy.

... They need to SELL Bush's failure. It ain't
selling itself. Turns out the public isn't as stupid as most
DaschleDems thought.

Really? It seems to me that after months & months of mounting casualties in Iraq, lots of
proclamations about the new boom in the economy with no increase in employment, the accelerated
trend moving companies & jobs out of the US, talk of trade wars, armtwisting their own party,
secretive & insulting relations with the press (except for bought-and-paid-for flacks), the turning
of longstanding international allies into grudging non-enemies, there is little or no success that
the Bush Administration can sell unless they have a $200 million ad budget.

While I still recall with surprise & regret that most of the voters of the nation were fooled by
Nixon, he had a much better product to sell. It's true, you can fool many of the people much of the
time. The question is, will the Bush Administration nsiders be able to stiff-arm their own party
and sell their military & economic disaster to the country by a strategy of 1- lying about
practically everything and keeping as much as possible secret 2- denying as many poor or minority
voters as possible the right to cast their vote & have it counted.

Most of my conservative and Republican friends are increasingly dismayed by BushCo and are
grappling with voting for almost anybody else. Personally I am hoping McCain will run again but the
odds are slim. The only people I know personally who are Bush supporters are hard core Clinton
haters, the one exception is a CPA who says he likes GWB but thinks Cheney is a rotten crook.

I would never have thought that supposedly conservative administration would create a huge increase
in the national debt and ram through socialist pork-barreling and trumpet both to the skies. I have
already seen conservative Republican administrations cause train wrecks in foreign policy, although
I am still disappointed they can't take advice from wiser heads.




But I disagree with your opinion of "NPR's news".

I am one of those republicans that thinks *NPR* does a pretty good job
with NEWS. Their news broadcast, like Morning Edition, and programs
like All Things Considered I think are quite objective.

What you get locally from your local public radio station can be
totally different. But any slant "does not necessarily refelct the
opinion of NPR."

Agreed. Glad to hear you say it. So much of the news they carry is the BBC, I do not comprehend how
anybody in this country could think the BBC has a Democrat slant.

DSK