What will happen if another Republican is elected to the presidency in '08?

Question

Will the Liberals attack him like they do this president? I mean President Bush has really been put through the wringer. When Clinton was criticized for his push toward socialism the Liberals started to cry Respect the office!! Now that the shoe is on the other foot and a Conservative is in office the Liberals launched a smear campaign that I have never seen before. I don't think even Nixon took this kind of abuse.

Answer 1

Although your question is probably on many peoples minds I think we are missing the bigger picture here. I am directing my comments to all that have responded.
Our needs as a nation is not a republican/democrat thing. Nor is it a conservative/liberal thing. Let us stop looking at what team the politician plays for (Dem/Rep etc.etc.) and lets choose candidates or better still let's demand candidates that represent the issues that all of us as united Americans are concerned with.....health care, education, social security, employment. These are the lifeline under we, as Americans, live with. Yet, if we respond with the mental and social conditioning of developing and focusing hate and venom for the opposition then we all lose.
As a nation let us all move forward in developing our senses to focus on our needs as a nation and not the soap opera drama the corporate media makes us focus on. These things are distractions and we are all better than that.....we all want better than that......we all deserve better than that.

Answer 2

Ethan, you're delusional this time. Clinton wasn't attacked for being too liberal. He was under constant assault by a Repulican machine that dug and dug until they could find something to bring him down. Several people have admitted as much.

While you like to think Bush is simply being attacked and defamed, Bush is being criticized for poor policy decisions and for misleading the public into following him into war. Oh, and for attacking and defaming critics. Oh, and for hiring illegitimate "experts" in certain areas (an oil lobbying in charge of the EPA - who a day after quitting gets a job at Exxon/Mobil?) of his cabinet. Oh...

Okay you get the point. These are legitimate complaints. That's why more than 60% of America disapprove of the job he's doing as President.

The next President, should they be Republican will not be criticized in the same way - as long as they are up front with the public and surround themselves with legitimate experts.

And seriously, you think Bush is the victim of a smear campaign? He once had a more than 85% approval rating. He could have used that time of cooperation within and without the nation to build a better world. Instead, he decided to go unilaterally againt the wishes of the rest of the world and decided to be a divider and not a uniter at home. This is his own doing. If you were reasonable, you'd understand that.

Answer 3

Depends on which Republican you're talking about.

Clinton NEVER tried to "push twoard socialism" (I'm a socialist, I know what socialism is, and asking for universal health care isn't the same as creating a socialist state)....he was one of the corporation's bestest buddies. Bill AND Hillary are NOT liberal. They are centrist, and corporatist. They don't have the worker's welfare in mind at all.

Oh, and your generalizing and forgeting facts again. You mean to say you don't remember Rush's daily diatribes against Clinton? The amount of unmitigated slime the man had to endure? The humiliation of having his private marital life dragged before the country in order to satisfy the need for Republican "revenge" after Nixon? (By the way, you must not have been around during the Nixon administration.....he got castrated in the press....rightfully so.) The multi-million dollar witch hunt that yielded up NOTHING?

Answer 4

Clinton wasn't criticized for his push toward healthcare (is that what you mean by socialism?), he was criticized for not fessing up to a bj from an intern in front of his wife. Who would? Look at her, she's mean! Sure it's perjury (although for what reason the grand jury needed to know that is beyond me), but it's no starting a war under false pretense, or abusing executive privelege to circumvent both the legislative and judicial branches in pursuit of "terrorists". (Why wouldn't he be able to discuss a terrorists activities with a sworn judge if that was really all he was doing?)

It's never just been liberals who disapprove of Bush, it's currently 59% of Americans. If 59% of Americans were actually liberal, he wouldn't be president at all.

Answer 5

Yeah, but you don't see any Impeachment hearings going on do you? And he lied to get us into a War while Clinton lied about a BJ. Not that I support Democrats either. I think Republicans AND Democrats sell out the American people from both sides of the isle. The same special interests that pay for the campaigns write the legislation giving us a nice illusion of choice.

Answer 6

which liberals cried "respect the office"? just saying it does not make it so. no ethan, it is not a double standard. you are equating some guy you spoke to and bill o'reilly. the media actively stumps for bush:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/oreilly062705.asp

and so do some democrats when an evil comic appears:
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/050306/hoyer.html

here... we're even still more interested in their marriage than in bush's.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200606020011

is he the president or not? if he's in charge, why can't he take the heat? he hasn't even been asked to testify under oath, so i don't understand how you can say he's been put through the wringer. clinton was busted for perjury, is bush being protected from the same fate?

Answer 7

It has really gotten trendy to slander the president and it's sad. I'm a Bush supporter, though don't agree with everything. I think the war has probably taken another Republican out of the running for the next term. Not sure.

Have you noticed how when it suits them the Liberal cry is Tolerance, tolerance - unless someone disagrees with them.

Answer 8

Bush is an idiot! What he's done has effected the whole US. He's just continuing his daddy's war. Clinton hurt only himself, and his wife, but not the whole U.S. How can you compare what Clinton did to the sorrow that Bush has caused. I don't think the fact that he's republican reflected the attack from liberals. I think it was the fact that he's from the Bush family.

Answer 9

Now we all know the liberals will continue their whines and hatred of the Republicans, no matter who they are, which will show just how full of it they are when they say it's all about Bush. They're even shunning Democrats like Joe Lieberman, though we know they'll rally round him if he gets elected. Liberals only respect the office if it's one of them. If not, we just have to put up with it.

Answer 10

You know what funny. You said there is a conservative in office. Even true conservative are saying bush is not one. He has not vetod one spending bill (well now one...but for relegious reasons) I think if we could get get a fiscal conservaite that is opened minded on social programs we could have something good. I see bad things if we get one that is on the far side of either side.