Reply #6: Good points. But I think we gain mileage by bashing Bush's failures [View All]

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I think we are going to win in 2008 because I don't think the Republican machine wants to win then. They know everything is bad, and that someone will have to raise taxes and cut boondoggles. So they are going to whiff at the ball in 2008, let us win, then blame us in 2012 for raising taxes and for creating the bad situation we will inherit.

But bashing Bush helps for three reasons. One, it helps firm in people's minds that he is a failure, so maybe he will be remembered that way. Two, we undercut the fundamentalist/neocon message by showing it and Bush failed. Three, it gives us a chance to bash the entire Repub party, which helps in 2006.

See, we're going to win the presidency again, someday. That's a given. What we really need to focus on is winning Congress and the states. Bashing Bush bashes the Republicans, and helps us to reclaim America. Every low poll number makes the whole Repub party look bad. And future Repub candidates have to either side with a failed president, or have to reject the core party message. Either tactic hurts them, and helps us.

You are definitely right, though, that we are gloating a lot over Bush's bad numbers without turning those numbers to usefull election advantage yet. We should start linking the whole Republican ideology to Bush's bad numbers.