If it's unpatriotic and supposedly treasonous for conservative talk
radio host Rush Limbaugh to want Barack Obama's policies to fail in
the middle of a serious recession, is it similarly so for Democrats
who wished President Bush wouldn't succeed while the nation was at
war?
In August 2006, a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll asked the following
of 900 registered voters:
Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would
you say you want President Bush to succeed or not?
Here are the stunning results
51 percent of Democrats and 34 percent of Independents didn't want
President Bush to succeed...even though our nation was at war in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
I'm sure media outlets will be reporting this revelation real soon,
and expressing their apologies to Mr. Limbaugh.
Former Clinton pollster Craig Charney wrote about this deplorable poll
on September 24, 2006
A recent Fox News poll gets at the disturbing truth: A majority of
Democrats say they want to see the president fail. [...]
In other words, the rage extends way beyond the lip-pierced
Deaniacs, aging hippies and other fringes of the Democratic Party.
Lots of otherwise sensible people—suburban moms, hospital orderlies,
schoolteachers, big-hatted church ladies—detest George W. Bush.
When these Democrats say they want Bush to fail, might this mean
that they simply reject what they see as his far-right religious and
corporate agenda? If so, it’s hard to see why independents—hardly
right-wing zealots—hope he succeeds by 63 percent to 34 percent.
Sadly, much of the Democratic Party wants to see this president crash
and burn. [...]
Yet if Bush does fail—for instance, if Iraq spirals into civil war
or the economy slides into recession—then America is in trouble.
Making progress on these key issues, like others facing the country,
will require bipartisan solutions, not political finger-pointing.
Fascinating
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/03/09/most-democrats-wanted-bush-fail-2006-poll-will-media-care
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