this man will be a dangerous force in America. His agitation and demagoguery will not stop upon leaving office.

It’s close but we haven’t caught up yet

…we’re going to be taking back this fall, news that Republicans have realized the difference between Not Actually Bad, Compared to What Came After and Good God, What Crack Were We Smoking? is great.

Not that anybody except the most dense believed all that ‘once the GOP lost a seat it was lost forever’ Democratic agitprop, anyway.

enuff said

Congrats on you efficiency.

Now, run back to Kos.

… but that said, I don’t think anyone could dispute the notion that President Bush loves America.

Right now, I would give almost anything to have that one, vital prerequisite filled above all others. I want my President to love my country. Thinking about the fact that the President of the United States hates the United States brings rage and sorrow to my heart in equal measure.

(and FWIW I can’t believe there are two more of you) thanks for asking.

The thing that made Bush a real, true conservative – and I know you know this – is that only a “real & true” conservative could have pulled off the planning for 911 like he did. It was a work of art.

at the world series gave me goosebumps. obama ‘s girly attempts are embarrasing to the country. and girls.

When you want to make up the four touchdown lead that authoritarian Muslim extremists have over broad-based, democratic decision-making governments in the Middle East, you have to do it one opportunity at a time.

Bush’s domestic spending and expansion of govt deserves strong criticism. (Obama deserves a multiple greater.) But regardless of the reasoning for entering the Iraqi war, the end result will pay dividends for generations to come. No, Bush didn’t get there cleanly. Most difficult military campaigns don’t. But his steadfastness through the surge and the end result (as long as the Donks don’t snatch defeat from the jaws of victory) will be heralded for years to come.

Are we looking at the same thing? I’m here on Rasmussen’s daily tracking.

I am mystified as to how this little c-sucker can scrape together 50% at this point. But I’m not all that surprised about the 32% strong approval.

Polls show that about 40% of voters are registered Democrats.

Polls also show that Obama has about 80-90% Approval among registered/self-identified Democrats (which just shows how *radical* self-identified Democrats have become… anyway…) – this means that, just from his “partisan Base”, Obama will get 36% Approval “floor” from partisan Democrats alone.

Then you have to factor in Left-Leaning Independents. If Dems make up 40% of the electorate, and the GOP makes up about 33%, it means the remaining 27% of the electorate are “Independents”.

But not all Independents are created equal – roughly a third of Independents actually “lean-Republican” (e.g. they’re libertarians who don’t want to register as R, etc.), roughly a third are *Left-Leaning* Independents (e.g. people who think the Democrat Party is “too moderate” or “too corporate” and so refuse to register as Dems), and the remaining rough third are truly “non-partisan”, ‘swing in the wind’ Indie types.

Obama has also nailed up pretty good support among Left-Leaning Independents these days – assuming he has about 70% Approval among the 1/3 of Independents who are ‘Left-Leaning’, that adds roughly another 6% on to his Approval rating: 36 + 6 = 42%, the exact number you quoted.

(Incidentally, the remaining 4-6% of Obama’s Approval rating comes from the truly ‘non-partisan’ Independents – I’m assuming among them, Obama still has approx. 50% approval…)

Anyway, the Left-Leaning Independents may desert Obama is he does something which majorly torques off the “progressives’ and the Nutroots (e.g. a SCOTUS nominee who’s “too moderate” for example).

Meanwhile, his Approval among *partisan* Dems may deteriorate if the economy continues to dive.

Suffice it to say, I don’t think we’ve seen the true “bottom” in Obama’s Approval ratings. But the D’s passing of Health Care has stabilized his ratings among his ‘Base’ supporters, and have put his Approval ratings in ‘stasis’, at least for now.

• The Dems that were pissed at Obama are not pissed any more…because healthcare passed. So, as IJB implies – the base has been placated, for now.
• More ominously – what the Dems hoped would happen, IS happening: people are already forgetting about healthcare rationing. No, WE aren’t, but those who are not “inside politics” followers ARE.

This is why the temperature must stay turned up. We have to keep pounding on what a travesty and screw job it is. I can see that the volume has already subsided substantially.