A "Compassionate Conservative" no more, according to the public

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...47377_2004apr3

Fewer Say Bush Is Serving Middle Class
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By Dana Milbank and Richard Morin, Washington Post Staff Writers

As he approaches the November election, President Bush (news - web sites) has shed a good part of the "compassionate conservative" image he cultivated during the 2000 election, a Washington Post poll has found.

Bush came to office three years ago with a message that he was different from traditional Republican conservatives because he was promoting programs for the poor and disadvantaged. But with his presidency dominated by foreign policy issues and such traditional conservative favorites as tax cuts, he has dropped from his speeches the compassionate conservative moniker that was his trademark in 2000.

The Post poll found Americans split over whether Bush has governed in a compassionate way, with 49 percent saying he has and 45 percent saying he has not. That is down sharply from February 2003, when a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found that 64 percent of Americans thought he had governed compassionately.

[gldstwmn]

The New York Times is reporting that Kerry will have a running mate within eight weeks. Then the full frontal assault on Bushco will begin in earnest. There is no way he is going to win. No way. I hope there are charges brought once a rightfully elected administration comes into office.

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Originally posted by gldstwmn
The New York Times is reporting that Kerry will have a running mate within eight weeks. Then the full frontal assault on Bushco will begin in earnest. There is no way he is going to win. No way. I hope there are charges brought once a rightfully elected administration comes into office.

I hope you're 100% correct.

Who do you think the running mate will be? My money's on Hillary until he announces who it is.

[gldstwmn]

Originally posted by dissention
I hope you're 100% correct.

Who do you think the running mate will be? My money's on Hillary until he announces who it is.

Okay now, are you sitting down? Drumroll please...

Wesley Clark or




















John McCain.

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Originally posted by gldstwmn
Okay now, are you sitting down? Drumroll please...

Wesley Clark or




















John McCain.

*pees pants, gags, falls on the floor, and begs to be put of misery*

If McCain is chosen...I don't know what I'll do. But if he is, at least we can say we got Bush out...just to put another one in.

[strandinthewind]

John Edwards. If not, then some guy from a midwestern swing state. Hillary is not going to bloddy herself IMO.

[Merf]

John Edwards or Dick Gephardt.

[GypsySorcerer]

It won't be Hillary - there's a possibility she'd have to wait until 2012 to run for President, and that's just not going to happen.

It won't be McCain, either.

It'll be a Midwesterner or Southerner. Evan Bayh, perhaps?

[DrummerDeanna]

They're still talking up our governor, Bill Richardson...

BUT I don't think it will be Bill R. or Hillary..and here's why:

The only VP to be elected pres was Bush Sr. if memory serves..the other VP's got president because the president died in office...

so with those statistics...I think Hill and Bill R. want the big title...and won't be chancing anything by taking VP...that's just my two cents

[darklinensuit]

I say it won't it Hillary or McCain.
Clark, Edwards, or Bayh are most likely, especially the first two.
A friend of mine who's active in the Party & was in the early Draft Clark movement is predicting quite an exciting convention --- she still swears that Kerry won't get the nomination due to health problems recurring, though I can't imagine she's right at all in this case.

- Jake

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Originally posted by darklinensuit
she still swears that Kerry won't get the nomination due to health problems recurring, though I can't imagine she's right at all in this case.

Just how active is she in the party? Who in the hell else would it go to? Kucinich?! I wish.

[darklinensuit]

Originally posted by dissention
Just how active is she in the party? Who in the hell else would it go to? Kucinich?! I wish.

That was my reaction, too.
She was very active in Ohio politics (close to the governor) years ago & down here she's more active in Houston Democratic Party stuff.
An oracle she's not. In 2000 she swore the Republicans would never end up going for Shrub.

- Jake