“The difference between neurotics and psychotics is the former builds castles in the sky and the latter moves into them.” not sure
Truth, accuracy, intellectual honesty, integrity are all concepts completely foreign to liberals. These characteristics expose lies, ignorance, delusions and myth building as core values of Liberalism as practiced by Democrats.
Recently, Bob Beckel proudly announced that President Bush’s approval rating, at 30%, was the lowest poll ratings ever. The liberal media gleefully reported his lowest approval ratings ever supported that Bush is the worst president ever. More evidence that liberals mislead their gullible base with erroneous talking points to repeat as gospel!
In an AOL report (11/16/05) the presidents with lowest presidential approval ratings were Truman at 22%, Nixon at 24%, Carter at 28%, and Bush (41) at 29%. An ABC report (2001) on end of presidency job approval ratings noted President Nixon at 24%. Even an imbecile using fuzzy liberal math should recognize the discrepancy.
More important, low approval ratings while in office is not an accurate predictor of presidential greatness. The real measure occurs after time has passed and their successes and failures are assessed in relation to the history of their time. For example, President Truman’s lowest approval rating was 22%, yet a 1999 C-SPAN viewer survey ranking presidents ranked him 7th. In a Feb. 20, 2000 ABC poll about presidential greatness Truman was ranked 11th, and in a Jun. 24, 2007 Rasmussen poll rating presidents also ranked Truman at 11th. The truth is that historians will not measure President Bush 43’s legacy for many years. Just as our baseball and football athletes are not eligible to be nominated for the Hall of Fame for 5 years after they retire.
Liberal reality is redefining failure. In 2006, democrats gained control of Congress and voted the incompetent Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and the corrupt Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. Liberals promised to end “earmarks”, the Iraq War, improve the economy, lower gas prices, provide health insurance to all, including illegal aliens and a host of other grand liberal entitlements by soaking the “rich”. Instead Democrats have given us is a struggling economy, the sub-prime housing fiasco, declines in the stock market and higher gas and food prices. Even the Iraqi Parliament achieved more dodging bombs than our cushy democrats have dodging scandals. Democrats simply deny their failure. Just pretend it did not happen.
But liberals talk of approval ratings as a measure of success. Let’s look at some numbers.
- On 02/08/08 the Pelosi and Reid Congress had an approval rating of 22% compared to Bush’s 30%.
- In a 05/03/08 Diageo/Hotline RV poll Congress had an 18% approval rating,
- in a 04/29/08 CBS/New York Times poll it was 21%,
- in a 12/17/07 NBC/Wall Street Journal poll it was 18% and
- in a 12/14/07 Diageo/Hotline RV poll it was 22%.
Obviously the public disapproves of Congress more than it does President Bush.
Liberals pontificate about President Bush’s low approval ratings but ignore these ratings. Liberal TV news shows are losing viewers at such accelerated rates that their audience now make up less than 20% of the market. In Apr. 2008, liberal darling Katie Couric’s ratings dropped from 5.9 million to 5.2 million viewers. The Lowest Ever! While the hated Rush Limbaugh’s audience grew larger than all of the TV network news shows combined. Liberal newspapers are losing subscribers by the thousands and closing. Yet liberals focus on Bush’s low approval rating and deny worse approval ratings by the Democrat Congress, the liberal news networks and the newspapers. Accepting liberal definition of success requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
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