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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Democrats won’t want to hear this but…
There is a strong belief out there that the type of attacks being launched against the war and the President are being done for partisan gain, and HURT troop morale. Via the Washington Post:
Democrats fumed last week at Vice President Cheney’s suggestion that criticism of the administration’s war policies was itself becoming a hindrance to the war effort. But a new poll indicates most Americans are sympathetic to Cheney’s point.
Seventy percent of people surveyed said that criticism of the war by Democratic senators hurts troop morale — with 44 percent saying morale is hurt “a lot,” according to a poll taken by RT Strategies. Even self-identified Democrats agree: 55 percent believe criticism hurts morale, while 21 percent say it helps morale.
The results surely will rankle many Democrats, who argue that it is patriotic and supportive of the troops to call attention to what they believe are deep flaws in President Bush’s Iraq strategy. But the survey itself cannot be dismissed as a partisan attack. The RTs in RT Strategies are Thomas Riehle, a Democrat, and Lance Tarrance, a veteran GOP pollster.
Their poll also indicates many Americans are skeptical of Democratic complaints about the war. Just three of 10 adults accept that Democrats are leveling criticism because they believe this will help U.S. efforts in Iraq. A majority believes the motive is really to “gain a partisan political advantage.”
Here’s a PDF link to the poll.
Note the demographics on page three. Slightly more Democrats than Republicans took this poll, and even more Democrats with ‘leaners’ towards the Democratic party.
Think those Democratic Senators who are bogusly charging the President with “lying” and “deliberately misleading” the American people regarding the rationale used for the Iraq war will take note? I won’t hold my breath.
Read more via Justin Gardner at The Moderate Voice.
Update: Also posting about this: Baldilocks, Jeff Goldstein, Pundit Review, AJ Strata, Confederate Yankee
(Thanks to ST reader Fat Tone for the tip)
(Cross-posted at Blogs For Bush)
Related Toldjah So posts:
- Where did the WMDs go?
- The public’s perception of the Iraq war correlation with 9-11
- Playing politics with the war
- GOP releases video detailing Dem statements
- W tells the Dems to stop rewriting history
- Who’s really lying about Iraq?
- Dems on Iraq – a quote recap
- REPOSTING: If Bush “lied”, so did others
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This is going to cost the dems in the long run. More so than Howard Dean thought the republicans would suffer from half assed intervention into the Terry Schiavo case.
The Democrats are in serious trouble with their base,us lefties. This fight goes back to the streets of Chicago. The Democratic base is anti-war and pro-Peace. The monied people in the Party are A-political in the sense that they follow polls for talking points. All of the presidential hopefuls,except Feingold voted yes to allow bush to go to war in Iraq. That is unfogivable,so those politicians have a problem. It is also the reason that a large percentage of Democrats believe that the politicians in their Party are just playing to the crowd. The “base” also believes that the Zionists,Armageddonists(Christian Right),Wahhabists,Opus Dei and the neo-cons have been discredited and should be marginalized. American politics may be seeing a re-alignment in political parties akin to recent events in Israel. Peace
To commenter “Pinto Bean” – I deleted your comments by mistake as I thought you had double posted. If you’d like to repost, please do so.
steve,
Like a great many Libs, you mistake your fringe politics for being the mainstream base. People like you are driving people out of the Democrat party and ensuring not only minority status, but that you’ll never win an election again.
Being an ostrich is not being enlightened or smart. Your peace is to surrender to evil.
Steve, We can only hope the Democrats are in serious trouble with their base.
I’m assuming because only 1% of representatives voted for in favor of pulling out immediately out of Iraq.
Shows how extreme the base (rank and files) are which is scary because the leadership of the Democrat party are already scary.
“Even self-identified Democrats agree: 55 percent believe criticism hurts morale, while 21 percent say it helps morale.”
Ahhh, yes, criticism helps the troops morale. Yep! Sure does! Ohhhhh, yeah!
Those 21% would be the Moonbat Wing, right? Yeesh!
It’s supposed to say “Seventy percent of people surveyed said that criticism of the war by Democratic senators hurts troop morale, 30% declined to admit it.”
zing
More and more information continues to come out showing the Bush Administration was less than honest in making the case for war against Iraq. A recent article in the LA Times states German intelligence officers said that the Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated the claims of an informant during the run-up to the war in Iraq.
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