rummy out AFTER the election?? what were they thinking??

[unblock]

can you imagine if they had rummy step down two days BEFORE the election? just enough time for people to think shrub might be switching to a pull-out strategy, not enough time for everyone to think it through?

they would have held on to the senate, and who knows, maybe even the house.

so much for rove's vaunted genius. this was IDIOTIC timing, imho!

[Starlight]

1. I expect him to go into hiding/leave the country before he's indicted.

[aquart]

4. I hear Paraguay is lovely this time of year.

[yojon]

7. Gates is one of Jim Baker's robots

Probably sent in to salvage what is left of Junior's 'political capital'.

[aquart]

2. Oh, dear. Did you believe George when he said this was planned?

George lies.

[barbtries]

3. are you saying

that rumsfeld's been fired??????

[MADem]

Monkey did NOT know how bad it was, and Rove hoped that voter intimidation would work

Democratic GOTV was WAY better this time around, and TURNOUT sealed the deal. Totally.

[MadMaddie]

5. They saw that the Saddam verdict didn't have any effect...

it was the Surprise....and if they would have pushed Rummy out last week or at the end of the week they would have lost more seats

[Hamlette]

6. Bush obviously thought it was worse to admit a mistake than to

fix it before the election.

[smalll]

12. Exactly -

and he was probably right under the circumstances. Particularly as Iraq has gone double-plus bad just recently. It would have been seen as an admission of failure.

[Generator]

8. Yep, they ran this election they way they've run the Iraq war

Last time it took Osama Bin Laden and Gay marriage AND OHIO to win. This time they did all themselves with hypocrisy, gay underage sex in Congress, and the Iraq war fiasco, AND Katrina, And Abrhamoff-AND oh I can't keep up.

[uppityperson]

9. I thought this also, but Mr.bush said...he didn't want to influence campaign

that is why he lied last week and said Rummy stays. Seems like it would've worked better to fire him before election, unless they truly thought they could steal this one to, which I think they did.

[LSdemocrat]

10. Sadly the Bush administration does not act upon rational thought

Not sadly for our election results, but sadly for the rest of the mess this country and the world is in.

[Quixote1818]

11. I think that was Rove's call. He thought it would play well with the base. nt

[Rose Siding]

13. Maybe they really thought that "resolute leader" schtick was still playing

:shrug: I don't know but it sure was stupid. Instead of choosing to appear reasonable or, um, sane, he handed us the Senate.

[bunny planet]

14. That's what I thought was going to be the October surprise or at least

the early November one. He really is crazy, because you are right, it would have convinced some, maybe just enough that he was admitting mistakes finally and going to make a change. It really was idiotic, hubris I guess. His Fraudulency must have believed Karl would be stealing another one for him. I'm sure they tried, numbers were just too overwhelming against them. Either they thought they could steal it and then they wouldn't have to fire Rumsfeld. I think they kept him on because he knows so much about the lies that went into starting this war, they didn't dare throw him out. They must have promised him something big to have him leave now without telling what he knows.

[antonialee839]

15. I was thinking the same thing today while enjoying all the long

faces over at Faux News. That had to be the dumbest move ever. You know half the unthinking public would have seen that as a big turn of events. Rove is a "moran".

[Blue State Blues]

16. maybe they thought it would take over the news cycle

and take up some of the broadcast time and column inches that would otherwise be devoted to in-depth analysis of the implications of a dem win. seems like more of a hail mary pass than their usual control of the news cycle, though.

[Starlight]

17. That occurred to me, too.

[damntexdem]

18. GOP. Thinking?

What makes you think that they WERE thinking?

[upi402]

19. It's like they need us n/t