Capital Gang, "Bush is easygoing and likeable"........

[Joanne98]

Said by Democrat Margaret Carlson. With friends like the Democrats who needs enemies.
this is it in a nutshell. i'm in ohio and bush is here today talking about JESUS. they love him. they think he's a man with honesty and integrity, EVEN after he smeared Kerry with falsehoods.
If the Democrats can't start fighting back then we probably won't win. I'm tired of arguing about this. I think we should start planning to evict every single TRAITOR democrat we have. Starting with Margaret Carlson. She's NOT a democrat she's a butt-sucking brown noser. You don't get 200,000 people to protest your nomination if your LIKABLE.
I think from now on we should start taking names. if we lose we can cheer ourselves up by crucifying the DINO's.

[soupkitchen]

1. Why, if he is so likeable to do many people hate him?

[Cha]

3. Good question! Me thinks she has an

agenda or she's as vacuous as she looks.

[Joanne98]

8. Exactly

He's the most hated person on earth. Ask Margaret.

[Cha]

2. margaret carlson is putz...she said nasty things

about Al Gore and she calls bush "likeable"?

:wtf: is likeable about a sociopath?

She's either being disingenous..or she truly is too stupid to be on tv..right along with judy woodbrain.

[swag]

4. That's great. I'll give him a nickel to scrub my toilet every 3 weeks.

[gollygee]

5. How could anyone find him likeable?

I don't get it. So bizarre. I guess other people have a different idea of what "likeable" is than I have . . .

[roseBudd]

19. Bush's base

Are whites who have not gone to college. They like short sentences. They don't notice that he doesn't answer the actual questions he is asked by the press.

They also erroneously believe that religous people make good decisions. So they can relax and just "trust" the driver.

Now get out there and do what they have been doing.

At the MoveOn PAC meeting I attended in Cincinnati we were told the GOP voter volunteer corp has been in Ohio since 2000.

They've got theirs. We need to focus on ours.

Secular youth, artsy creative people, gays, secular poor people, minorities, college students, single women

I am passing out voter registration forms and talking to strangers on the street about the imporatnce of "sending that man back to Texas on Nov.2"

I challenge everyone who posts on this forum to get out there and campaign everywhere they go. Select your targets carefully and you will be surprised how easy and fun it is. More fun than posting on DU. I got some new Kerry voters at the grocery store today!

Rosebud in the swing state of Ohio

[DrFunkenstein]

6. If He Is So Likable, How Come No One Remembers Him In Alabama?

And, by the way, does he have any friends that aren't his political cronies?

[Cha]

22. We should e-mail...margaret

putz carlson with that question! Excellent!

[TheDonkey]

7. Republicans really can't touch issues anymore

the biggest defense of Bush now is,
Kerry is scary
bush is likeable
The economy and Iraq are a mess but... bush where's a cowboy hat and eats burgers!

[Joanne98]

11. It's all style.

Ask Candy Crowley. She was on TV this morning talking about that.

[Cha]

25. I didn't even get on that thread on candy and

her gushing..I'm trying to keep some kind of semblance of sanity here while the rnc are in NYC!

But ..we all know how candy has overlooked anything real about bush for 4 friggin years now as she continues to whore for the chicken noodle network.

she's pretty much a disgrace to mankind.

[oscar111]

9. real nice guy who

ended a bill to give dr's to poor kids in TX years back.

Just did a budget which will toss 1/4 million MORE out to live on a piece of sidewalk {cut to housing aid}, where on average 1 in every 30 will die from the effects of exposure to the elements... just as one might predict.

cut Food Stamps too. already, 12 million hungry, so he is guaranteeing more will go hungry.

Nice guy, such a follower of Jesus. Mark 10:21 "sell all and give the money to the poor"-Jesus himself quoted.

[59millionmorons]

10. Thats not all she said

She also while saying that said, but does Americans still want a likeable president. What we are seeing on The Capital gang is the same thing we have here on DU, A few polls show the race is tied and everyone gets hysterical. Com down we didnt even have a debate yet.

[Joanne98]

14. Doesn't that imply that's he's likable in the first place?

Maybe Americans DO want a likable President. What does that have to do with Bush?

[59millionmorons]

21. My point is

She was saying in the times were in maybe Americans want a good president instead of a guy they want to have a beer with. In otherwords a serious president.

[flpoljunkie]

12. Have you ever heard Novak or O'Beirne compliment JK or denigrate Bush?

Hell, no! They are always on message and never give an inch. I loathe them both!

[Joanne98]

16. No. That's the point.

We're getting killed by are own sell-outs. We won't get anywhere until their gone.

[imax2268]

13. that's her opinion...

and she's part of a very small group that may like him...everyone that I talk to hates his guts...even Republicans...

[Joanne98]

26. But she's supposed to be on our side.

I want someone who fights for us.

[childslibrarian]

15. I have noticed

That the more Kerry gains in polls, the more the right wing side of these newscasters come out. They are so obvious now that I can't believe that there won't be a backlash.

[charlyvi]

17. My dog is easy going and likeable too

But I wouldn't want him to be president. Unless he ran against Bush*

[Joanne98]

24. And you wouldn't want to drink a beer with him either........lol

[Jim Sagle]

27. But Judy Woodruff would be glad to suck him off.

;-)

[senseandsensibility]

Don't you think it's time we

took this bogus issue head on? The DNC, Kerry, Move-on, or someone should run a TV ad asking these very questions as clearly as possible: What's more important? Having a President the media tells you is likable (DON'T ADMIT HE'S LIKABLE), or having a President who's smart? Having a President the media tells you you'd like to have a beer with or having a President who put his life on the line for our country? Having a President the media tells you is easy going, or having a President who knows how to give all Americans health care, etc.? When you put it like that, this likablility thing really looks ridiculous. But you need to SPELL IT OUT.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Margaret Carlson is a Democrat like I'm the Queen of England.

But that "easygoing and likeable" crap is the same old meme they threw around in 2000 -- as opposed to stuffy, wonkish Al Gore. Shrub is the guy you want to have a beer with, right? Like that's such a great criterion for choosing a president. Like any of us peons will ever have a beer with any president, anyhow.

And I bet Bush* isn't even that great a guy to have a beer with. He's the putz who shows up at your backyard barbecue and drinks most of the beer, knocks over the grill, collapses your lawn chair, pees on your rosebushes, and then won't go home. Instead, he and your obnoxious brother-in-law sit on your patio far into the night, belching and making arm-farts and telling dirty jokes. Finally he passes out on your couch and you find him there in his underwear the next morning.

Yup, I'd love to hang out with the "easygoing and likeable" Shrubster.

[Auntie Bush]

39. Who wants to have a beer with someone who CAN"Tdrink?

Everyone seems to forget...No one can have a beer with Bush.

So the question should be:
Would you rather have a beer with John Kerry or
have a glass of Water with George Bush?

[Joanne98]

20. Might I ad that Bush is being worshipped today in Ohio by

PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS. If anybody thinks I'm being negative, I'm sorry but it's a little hard to take. i wouldn't be surprised if the Kerry campaign just pulled out of Ohio. How do you fight the "Jesus card" is you're not willing to call him want he is. A FRAUD.......
We were winning until the fucking swiftboat liars ran their ads.

[roseBudd]

28. MoveOn & Young Voter Alliance are in Ohio

Polls of likely voters do not count people who have never voted before.

Bush barely took Ohio last time.

Rosebud in the city Cincinnati which is 43% black
(hey not every city in Ohio is Whitieville)

[Joanne98]

Welcome to DU Rosebud. Yeah I know about Cincinnati BUT

Can they even get their vote counted with that Nazi police force down there. it's horrible. Remember the deaf guy who got shot because he didn't obey orders? Has it gotten any better?

[spooky3]

34. don't forget that a lot of Dems live in and around Cleveland, and the worm

is turning in Columbus. The state supported Clinton both times that he ran, and conditions favor Dems even more now. Any amount of time that JK and JE spend there will be worth it.

[Joanne98]

23. Now there doing Swiftboat vets...........

Bush campaign talker is saying vets free speech blah blah blah. Cato Cunt agrees. This is what happens when you beat around the bush. Kery needs to call Bush a LIAR and a COWARD. It's the only way.
will he do it? FUCK NO..........

[sage1]

29. Likeability?

Bush's likeability qualifies him to be president?
Damn, SAtan's likeable too....let's all jump on the bandwagon.
This isn't a personality contest, this isn't a race for Prom king.
This is an election for the leader of the strongest nation in the world. And it boils down to likeability?
This is like that question: Who do you want to have a beer with...
Damn
Enjoying a beer with someone doesn't qualify them for this office.
I'd enjoy a beer with any redneck from my town but that doesn't qualify them, or me, to be president.
I don't care if my president is a frat boy.
I want a president that is smarter than me.
I want a president who can plan ahead and do with without a bargain with the devil (Cheney).
I want a president who has had more world experience than me.
And Bush doesn't apply.
What the hell is wrong with these people?

[PATRICK]

30. A purge may not be in order

but noting very carefully how people act in a pinch and what side receives the benefit deserves careful scrutiny. All markers, blackmail, stupidity, cowardice will be revealed.

A purge is violent overkill, but you should at least know those you never can trust again as prominent national spokespersons or opinion makers. It is time to watch journalists too to see the same qualities and loyalties that go beyond non-partisan professionalism.

[Joanne98]

31. Our pols first..........

We need to concentrate on the primaries. Throw out pussies and replace them with junk yard dogs.

[John_H]

32. How many Repug surrogates do your ever hear conceding an INCH

on ANYTHING!!!

Can somebody a FUCKING MEMO to the PEOPLE WHO WOULDN"T HAVE FUCKING CAREERS without.....never mind.

[spooky3]

33. then she's suggesting voters will support Edwards, who is much more

easygoing and likeable than Bush?

Sadly, the religious right does not grasp the concept of hypocrisy, even though it's discussed pretty plainly in the Bible. They believe that their beliefs and desires make something true or false. If they want something to be true, then it is. You see it everywhere.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

35. Isn't Al Hunt a member of Capital Gang?

Did he just sit there impassively while Carlson said this? Recall that in 1987, George Bush confronted Al Hunt in a restaurant and shouted at him because he had written that Jack Kemp would be on the Republican ticket and not his father. He used the "F" word twice to Hunt, in front of his wife and 4 year old child. Hunt later wrote that he thought Bush was drunk at the time.

Article describing this and several other uses of the "F" word by the easygoing, likeable, mild-mannered, pleasant and debonair George W. Bush:

"...Bush Even Cussed-Out a Newspaper Editor in Front of His 4-Year-Old Daughter - In 1987, Bush ran into Al Hunt, a Wall Street Journal editor who was minding his own business sitting at a restaurant with his wife and 4-year-old daughter. Bush lit into him, saying, among other things, "You no-good f—king son of a b—ch, I will never f—king forget what you wrote." (Hunt had simply predicted that the 1988 Republican ticket would be Kemp/Lugar, instead of Bush/Quayle.)..."

http://www.democrats.org/news/200406250019.html

[Zynx]

36. The first thing I ever hated about him was his arrogant, smug, personality

if you can call it a "personality".

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

37. more like a psychopathology than a personality

[Jacobin]

38. So is my bloodhound. But he would make a terrible president

[dennis4868]

40. Dems like her....

are stupid or are very stupid....in 2000 we were told time after time how likeable Bush is....WHO GIVES A SHIT! What in the world does that have to do with my child's future, my ability to support my family, make sure my kids have health insurance and that we dont start illegal wars....if I want someone likeable I would vote for the Pope....

[rullery]

41. Isn't Margaret Carlson the mother of Tucker Carlson?

You know, the boyish loudmouthed kid who always wears a bowtie, and fills in for Bob Novak on "Crossfire"?

[troublemaker]

42. Before going too postal on chipmunk Maggie...

yesterday's WSJ poll asked that question -- do you find Bush "easygoing and likeable", and it was his best result. And the measure of whether someone is likable is whether people find him likeable. (other definitions wouldn't make much sense)