Anyone see a Republican candidate for the House or Senate posing for a PR photo with our president since August, 2007?
In the waning days of the election season, as both parties campaign fervently for their candidates, one man has been notably absent — President George W. Bush.
Reporters began asking questions immediately after the White House schedule last week noted Bush had no public events Friday through Monday, and would spend most of his time at Camp David.
“The president is pretty focused on the activities that we have here, especially getting this economy back in order,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday.
“We canceled a lot of our fundraisers, and he’s going to focus on being with Mrs. Bush and others this weekend at Camp David.”
But Perino couldn’t list any fundraisers that had been canceled recently.
Friday, Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto offered a more detailed explanation.
“The truth is we’re also trying to stay out of the public limelight during this period of the election season,” said Fratto. “There are two individuals out there running to be president of the United States, and we don’t want to complicate that for them.”
When I saw this being discussed on a news show, this morning, they couldn’t find a photo op of any House or Senate candidate with George W. Bush since late August, 2007.
“as both parties campaign fervently for their candidates, one man has been notably absent — President George W. Bush.”
Reminds me of the Gore campaign when they were trying to keep Clinton under wraps.
Bush is the “kiss of death.”
#1,
Except no one will come to regret that decision.
#3 Ask Gore if he regrets that…
Face it. Bush the lesser is a total loser, not even achieving the poor stature of Bush the elder as President. Who in their right mind would identify themselves with him?
Obama is only at 92% on Intrade. Buy while you still can! Thats an 8% ROI overnight!
Yeah, that BOZO is an ALBATROSS AROUND THE NECK OF THE GOP !!! AND THE ONE ***ROTTING CARCASS*** IS DESERVING OF THE OTHER !!! MAY THEY ***ALL ROT IN HELL*** !!!
He should campaign with Palin. She prolly still has a “W the President” sticker on the back of her SUV.
Hope they used the Lead Based make-up.
Moreover than Bush being toxic, Republicans in general are toxic. The list of Republicans that have run honorable campaigns this year is shockingly short.
Witness the campaigns of Dole [Anti-Christ], Coleman [Jew-baiting], Boehner [Chickenshit], Bachmann [Un-American], Joe the Plumber [Sammy Davis Jr. / Anti-American]…
Then there’s Palin, who’s in a class all by herself.
A classy group of fools on a stinkin’ ship.
same thing happened to Clinton in his final year in office.
Yeah, the only people with a lower approval rating than Bush is Congress. I wonder if it’s not Bush that is avoiding them instead . . .
Four more years. .. Vote McBush and the dipshit.
I wonder will she name her husband as the vice president? We don’t hear much about him even though he has run Alaska for the past two years.
I can think of one candidate for Congress in NM – though, not his name 🙂 – who had Bush come do a fundraiser, this year. Though he’s not showing him in his TV adverts.
Cripes! Their Senate candidate is so demented right-wing, the RNC won’t even give him money.
#11,
That is incorrect. Clinton left office with a 65% approval rating. On the other hand, Bush has the lowest approval rating since they started tracking such things;)
#12,
As you are bitterly clinging onto your religion and guns, I understand why you lack the political savvy to properly interpret that statistic.
Yes, as a whole, people disapprove of congress. However, on the Democratic side of the isle, people give a positive approval rating of their congress person.
On the other hand, #10 has it right. It is not only Bush that is toxic, it is the whole Republican brand. According to PollingReport.com a generic Democratic congressperson enjoys the same 10-15 point lead (depending on the poll) that Obama currently enjoys;)
Gore lost because he refused to hang with Clinton during the campaign, that and picking Lieberman as a running mate.
Bush is essentially being “de-Stalinized”. Russia quietly began to take stalin statues down and massaged the public’s minds into believing stalin didn’t exist.
Same goes for the GOP, its just a dream, it never happened. Please vote for us, pretty please?
NOPE. In fact, even Bush stickers went extinct about 8 months ago in my Republican neighborhood of Highland Park. Nobody wants to be associated with a criminal – including McCain.
In fact, even McCain signs are oddly rare compared to when Bush campaigned. The party is disgraced and it’s current president even worse.
#14: I cast an absentee ballot in Albuquerque. A lot of people are voting early, many more than the county clerks were prepared for. My guesses for New Mexico (which is considered a pivotal state this year):
For the Senate, you’re thinking of Steve Pearce, who’s the Republican candidate. He will probably do well in his former congressional district (southern and eastern NM, fairly conervative), but not so well in the rest of the state. Tom Udall will probably win.
I have no idea which Repub congressional candidate actually had Dubya raise money for him, though I’d guess Ed Tinsley (Pearce’s old district). Fundraiser probably didn’t turn out too well…
My nine yr old calls him “Toxic Waste”.
#16, Yes, as a whole, people disapprove of congress.
Well, I’ve been told numerous times by the dems that we are all in this together. Now you want to start splitting statistics? Yow.
And just FYI. I’m Libertarian so feel free to insult each side as much as you wish.
#20, My 13 year old calls Obama, Yo Mama — such as in Yo Mama will take care of that.
Gee . . . I wonder where our children get their ideas from?
Here in NH, they’re running radio ads for both rivals Suununu and Sheehen that attack each other by their alleged ties and agreement with GW Bush.
Clinton was still very popular with most Americans in 2000, but radioactive because of the witch hunt for a blow job. The economy was strong, the world was stable, the government’s finances headed in the right direction. That allowed GWB to campaign on values, because there wasn’t much going wrong.
Can’t do that today, there are real issues, and the “values” issues have been marginalized.
Remember GWB vowing to make same-sex marriage illegal? That worked out real well.
#24 Olo Bilgewater said, “Clinton was still very popular with most Americans in 2000, but radioactive because of the witch hunt for a blow job.”
Popular but unpopular?
What?
No, dumbass…popular but radioactive.
Bush is both unpopular with Dems and everybody else hates him for fucking up the entire country five different ways. Nothing is better today than eight years ago. Besides, could you imagine him on the same podium with someone who speaks worse? This is a real quote, btw, from you favorite MILF:
“And there must be something about San Francisco and he because it’s like I heard on Fox News today, it’s like a truth serum where when he’s there, he seems to be more candid, and remember it was there that he talked about, there you go, the bitter clingers, the cling-ons, all of us, I guess, you know holding on to religion and guns and, um, so something about he being there in San Francisco.”
WTF does Star Trek have to do with this?
Angry liberals failed to make this an issue. While Clinton’s approval rating was higher at the end of his second term, the GOP pounced on the opportunity to point out this same situation 8 years ago.
I’m going to set the over under on how long it takes a right wing commentator to echo the “when will you stop talking about Clinton” sentiment, this time about Bush, in response to some left wing hack at 5 days after the election.
#26 Bilgewater said, “No, dumbass…popular but radioactive.”
Oh, well liked but, no one wanted to be near him for fear of their life?
Exactly. The people liked him, the pols were scared.
#29 Now I get what you are saying. You left out “pols” in your original post. Gore didn’t think Clinton could help him win.