"You might remember that about this time in 2004, some of them were picking out their new offices in the West Wing," Bush said of his own re-election bid. "The movers never got the call."
That was the message President Bush offered supporters at a rally at Georgia Southern University. CNN reported that George and his first lady are both hitting the campaign trail this week to pull for Republicans in tight races in both the House and Senate.
President Bush sees Democrats as already counting their chickens before they hatch and has reminded the red faithful that the elections aren't over just yet. A number of races remain close, however, and with the President's low approval rating and the ever-growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq, he has entered the campaigning process much later this year than in the 2002 mid-term elections, where he held over a dozen rallies for party candidates.
CNN's political blog also reported First Lady Laura Bush is hitting the trail this week, too. She has a planned event in New Hampshire today and will rally the Republican troops in ten states as the final week of the campaign approaches. She'll also be hitting North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and California as the party attempts to motivate undecided voters in states where Republicans are facing discouraging poll numbers.
The President is scared and he should be. Democrats probably will not take back the Senate, but they may very likely take the house, as many races are leaning blue right now. Connecticut has become a battleground state as three Republicans are in serious jeopardy. The 5th district, which I wrote about in June, has gone from "likely Republican" to "lean Republican" and now it is a complete tossup. This is Nancy Johnson territory and she has never even come close to a serious challenge. Now, a young state senator named Chris Murphy might take it all away in what could be a Democratic revolution in Connecticut, a traditionally liberal state anyway, which has leaned more towards their fiscal affluence in the last 20 years.
Nothing is set in stone for next week. The polls are so close in most states that many are within the margin of error. Whichever party gets their members out there to actually vote next week will be the victor.
Article comments
1 - Nancy
Just as with his much-vaunted Vietnam war service record, Bush is mighty brave when it comes to bragging about his rather thin list of accomplishments, as long as no one calls on him to verify the facts of the matter, or he himself is not called on to actually risk his own hide. What a braggart. What a bag of hot air, ego, irresponsibility, and frat boy buffoonery. The prez who never grew up. Pity so many swallow his bullshit whole & salivate for more. The rest of us are too old, too smart, and too harrowed by his antics & lies to give credibility to such crap. If there's justice in the world, in a week or so, Dubya will truly be a lame duck and neutralized by a non-rubber-stamp new congress. If there were any REAL justice in the world, the public would rise up and string him up by his guts from the nearest tree on the mall for crimes of treason. With Cheney & Rove on either side on adjacent branches.
2 - MCH
Dittos, Nancy!!
It was bad enough when he skipped a mandatory physical in May of '72, forcing his permanent grounding and wasting $1 million on his training; and then did not report for duty (as ordered) to Dannelly AFB several months later.
But the kicker is when he lied about it 28 years later, stating during the 2000 campaign, "The reason I wasn't flying at Dannelly is because they didn't have the same kind of planes there."
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