2006 Fox News Poll: 51% Of Democrats Wanted Bush To Fail
{Update: From Michael: Rush Limbaugh just cited this post by Mike Proto and thought the post deserved to be moved back to the top}
The Internet is an amazing thing. With all of the hullabaloo over Rush Limbaugh’s comments I started wondering if I could find evidence of Democrats wanting Bush to fail. Lo and behold Fox News did a poll in 2006 and asked that very question. An article on the poll appeared in the NY Post by Craig Charney, a former Clinton pollster (I found the text of the article at sistertoldjah.com). Check this out.
A recent Fox News poll gets at the disturbing truth: A majority of Democrats say they want to see the president fail. Such deep hatred is bad news for the country at a time when America needs to bridge the partisan divide. It’s also bad news for the Democrats, who risk repeating the Republicans’ mistakes of a decade ago, driving away the centrists they need to regain power or going too far if they do manage to win.
Fox’s question was revealing: “Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to succeed or not?” Democrats said “not,” 51 percent to 40 percent – where the public at large wanted success by almost two to one. [See page 4 of this document for the poll in question.--ST]
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.
In fact, the fury against to Bush has reached unprecedented levels, even compared to the animosity among Republicans to his predecessor. Not long ago, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found that “strong disapproval” of Bush was 10 points higher than that recorded for Bill Clinton at any point during his presidency, including his impeachment. (That wasn’t during a war, either.)
[CORRECTION] Following quote from Betsy Newmark’s blog post.
Remember, for better or for worse, George W. Bush will be our president for more than two years. Hoping that he’ll fail is really hoping that America will fail. These people detest Bush so much that they don’t mind America getting a setback across the globe if it will weaken Bush.
Of course, there’s a key difference between then and now. Wishing Bush would fail meant wishing the country lost in Iraq. Wishing Obama fails means rooting against socialistic policies that threaten everything the country was founded on and our future prosperity.
Do you think the MSM, considering their whining about Limbaugh’s comments, would think to look something like this up now and then report on it? Nope, that would actually mean really reporting on something and adding some context. That would mean they couldn’t marginalize and demonize him.
Like I wrote previously, words are just a con game for liberals. Words have no fixed meaning for them.
When they say it is wrong for Rush to want Obama to fail, they just mean they hate Rush.
When they said they wanted Bush to fail, they just meant they hated Bush.
Giving them credit for attaching rational, fixed meanings to words and articulated rational, reasoned arguments grants the Left a premise it does not deserve.
Then again, as the champions of the unearned, I guess that’s fitting in its own way.
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:34 pmI think we need to just sit this out and say “no” to everything the Obama administration proposes. Let them push their agenda through both houses. When they ultimately fail we will be able to claim that we didn’t want anything to do with it in the first place.
After all, it worked for Obama when he was a candidate. How many times did you hear him say he voted against the Iraq war in the first place? And look at him now!
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:47 pmThe same jerks who say Rush is evil for saying Duh One should fail thinks it’s okay to say George Bush should fail.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:56 pmHow many double standards are necessary before Americans realize liberals have double standards?
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March 4th, 2009 at 11:43 amHaha!! Rush just cited my blog on his radio show!! Unfortunately, he called it Garden State Pundit because the folks at Gateway Pundit labeled it wrong.
LMAO!!!
March 9th, 2009 at 11:24 amMike,
What is the name and website for your blog?
March 9th, 2009 at 1:24 pmGarden State Patriot
March 9th, 2009 at 1:30 pmMike:
There is now a story posted on foxnews.com about this:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/09/flashback-poll-showed-democrats-wanted-bush-fail/
March 9th, 2009 at 1:37 pmWow, congrats, Mike! This is good stuff.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:07 pmHoly crap! I never saw this coming. Crazyyyy!!!
March 9th, 2009 at 3:14 pmTranscript from Limbaugh show!
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030909/content/01125107.guest.html
March 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pmMike Proto got a nod from Rush Limbaugh! Watch out ladies!
March 9th, 2009 at 8:49 pmHey Ed, you have to check out the comments I am getting now on my blog!
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March 10th, 2009 at 1:17 pmGood stuff Mike! I just posted a quick comment too.
Congrats!
March 10th, 2009 at 1:29 pmFeeling Smellish…I detect jealousy…lol!
March 10th, 2009 at 1:57 pmOuch! You didn’t have to make fun of my name! That hurts! Well, you got me! I’m just going to crawl away now. Farewell. Goodbye cruel world…
March 10th, 2009 at 2:07 pmHaha…
March 10th, 2009 at 6:57 pmvery nice site!!!
October 10th, 2009 at 10:52 pm