Billmon points out that the low Bush approval ratings (CNN has him at a new low of 32%) is less a function of his incompetence and poor performance in things like Iraq and Katrina than it is a direct result of the increasing price of gasoline.
That doesn't sound like a favorable comment on the intelligence of the American voters. Bush's approval ratings are not the logical result of his incompetence. They are the visceral result of the current financial pain being felt by poll respondents.
I'm sure that Karl Rove has plans for his October Surprise already in the can and ready to go. Fear and militarism are all the Republicans have left to run on. Conservatism has failed - as it logically was expected to.
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Don't you just wonder about those 32% that approve of Bush. Who are they? Do they believe the Earth is flat?
I suspect that they are people dominated by fear. They fear foreignors, strangers, other races, other religions, and because of that fear they are a reliable vote block for the Republicans. They also make up most fundamentalist religious groups.
If their leaders tell them the earth is flat and that those who claim it is a sphere are their enemies out to get them and convert their children -- yeah. They will profess the belief that the earth is flat.
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