Posted by Michael Der Manouel, Jr. at 12:00 am on Sep 27, 2006 Comments Off on Angelides and Iraq, The President’s Approval Ratings, and GOP Prospects
Democrat elected officials and candidates just slay me
sometimes. They consider themselves intellectually and
morally superior than all of society, yet their political
strategies are just idiotic. Now Phil Angelides, probably the
worst Statewide candidate ever fielded by the Democrats, has
finally found his issue – the Iraq war! Yes! That will
do it! What genius!
Memo to Democrats: you ran on the Iraq war in 2004 and
lost. You are running on the Iraq war in 2006 and
aregoing to lose again.
The President’s poll numbers, in my judgment, are not about any
one issue. His 9-11 tribute speeches, falling gas prices, and
hysterical rhetoric from the left are all important, but not the
main reason his approval ratings are up. Here’s the
reason:
He’s on OFFENSE.
Republicans are so desperate to see their elected officials on
offense, rather than the usual backpedaling, that the base gets
very fired up when we go on the attack. If we stay on offense
through election day, the election cycle will go well.
GOP prospects across the country rise and fall beginning with
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