When did Bush "jump the shark?"

[MikeG]

Poll question: When did Bush "jump the shark?"

(Means start to go downhill)

[thebigmansentme]

1. what exactly

is jumping the shark?

[MikeG]

4. Refers to when "Happy Days" started to go downhill.

The episode where Fonzie jumped the shark.
see www.jumptheshark.com

[trogdor]

33. If there was an event that DEFINES "jump the shark"...

...it's the "mission accomplished" stunt.

[thebigidea]

5. a phrase that has jumped the proverbial shark.

Mission Accomplished!

Failing that, the minute he heard about the 2nd attack and continued reading about goats.

[MikeG]

6. You know, criticizing the phrase "jump the shark" has jumped the shark.

[thebigidea]

12. criticizing the criticizing is more of an outrage than the outrage!

Hi, I'm James Inhofe - and I approved this message.

[MikeG]

8. Here's an older phrase: "Say, what's thebigidea?"

[thebigidea]

13. yeah, I got it from every single 3 Stooges short in existence

AMC's daily screenings of Stooge shorts kept me relatively sane post 9-11 and pre-Iraq war... after hours of Donald Rumsfeld and Ari Fleischer, finally: idiots that make more sense than Dubya.

[MikeG]

14. I liked that phrase and also "Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk"

[Endangered Specie]

2. July 6, 1946

The day he was born.

[AntiCoup2K4]

19. Exactly

Or more specifically, the Bush Criminal Empire jumped the shark even before then, when they were busted under the Trading With the Enemy Act for funding Hitler. They should have fed Prescott and the rest of those bastards to the sharks after that. Which would have likely prevented Junior from being born at all.

[delete_bush]

25. Close, but off by about 9 months

One day in early October 1945, when the evil spawn of poppy and babs was conceived.

Of course for the true * believers it was an immaculate conception so poppy was not directly involved. Can't say that I blame him of course.

[fujiyama]

30. Thanks

for pointing out his Bday. That was exactly what I was going to say.

[LoverOfLiberty]

3. I cannot exactly pinpoint the date

But it was not too long after his speech on 9/17/2001.

[Career Prole]

7. When they shifted gears from "Iraq is as big as California...

...the WWMD's are there and we'll find 'em!" to "Saddam was a brutal tyrant! It was never about WMD's!"
I see that as the top end of the slippery slope. I don't know if the poll numbers bear that out, it just feels right. Then when he got virtually no bounce from "Saddam in a hole" I knew he was tumbling ass over teakettle down the old hill.
And he ain't stopped rolling yet... :bounce:

[Stephanie]

9. When he couldn't pronounce Abu Ghraib

I think that was the last straw. The SHAME that his administration has brought on this nation and he could not even bother to learn to PRONOUNCE the name of the place? That moment just summed it all up.

[shraby]

11. When the torture pictures came out

that was when the media started to bite him.

[kaitykaity]

10. 1/20/01

Before that day, he was just a failed businessman, a
failed governor, a failed pilot, a failed recovering
alcoholic.

It's been downhill for EVERYONE since that day.

[2Design]

18. this is good...he has failed at most of what he has done....

never failed recovery....he never started it....

[kaitykaity]

24. Yeah.

First step in recovery is to admit that your life
is out of control. Bush can't admit a mistake. That's
a sure tell he's a dry drunk.

(Maybe not so dry, but I don't know that for sure.)

[Jim Sagle]

15. The day he was shitted out of J. Edgar's ass.

[MikeG]

16. I heard that Reagan shitted bigger turds than J. Edgar.

[Jim Sagle]

20. I heard that too. Ron Jr. said that.

[MikeG]

21. Damn! What a frigging copycat.

[Skittles]

17. when he ran for governor of Texas

nt

[TOhioLiberal]

22. Day 1! n/t

[lpbk2713]

23. When Katherine Harris pimped for him

in the Florida selection.

[AgadorSparticus]

26. my vote is on dick clarke. i don't remember bush being in hot water

during the primaries. still a big threat. but when clarke's book came out and his testimony lit bush's ass on fire, it seemed like all hell broke loose. i think clarke really kicked monkeyboy in the nuts hard. he hasn't been able to recover since.

[Jane Austin]

27. When he announced for Governor of Texas

He stepped in way over his head.

[yorgatron]

28. day one

and steadily downhill from there...

[Piperay]

29. Don't know about 'jumping the shark' but I think the turning

point was when those 4 contracters were killed, burned and hung. After that it really brought to everyone's attention that Americans are not being welcomed in Iraq with flowers and candy and we have an awful mess there that chimp got us into. It seems like after that there has not been one bit of good news for chimp and he has been on a complete downhill slide ever since. :o

[hyphenate]

31. January 21, 2001 eom

[mvd]

32. When the Supreme Court selected him

I quickly realized that he'd be one of the most partisan Presidents, and that the bipartisanship talk was another sham.

[NewJeffCT]

34. When Daddy got him into the Guards and then..

W jumped the shark when he had Poppy Bush pull strings to get him into a champagne unit of the National Guard, and then he promptly deserted.

Anything before that, I can write off as youthful indiscretion. But, I cannot excuse deserting when it comes to national security, even if it was a wrongful war. If you really were too scared to fight, become an objector or go to Candada.

[Dogmudgeon]

35. December 13, 2000

The day after the SCOTUS overturned the Florida election, declared Bush the winner, and effectively cancelled the right to vote.

It's all there in the opinion.

--bkl