Convince me to vote, someone.....

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

If you look at the link I posted, Dubya derived whatever popularity he had from the (ill-fated) war(s). If it weren't for the wars, he'd have had virtually no support at all.

As for shenanigans, what goes around comes around. Wasn't it Dubya who trashed McCain in 2000 in the South Carolina primary with robo-calls saying that McCain fathered a black child out of wedlock? Classy fellow, that Dubya. It seems to me that ever since the Southern Strategy, the GOP has done a lot of shady stuff come election time.

First, please don't tell me that you believe that the GOP owns the market on push polls or other campaign chicanery. Second, I partially agree with your first paragraph. He benefited politically from the the correct handling of the campaign against the Taliban. The wheels came of the cart with the misinterpretation of intelligence data from Iraq. This severely impacted his 2nd term, along with the Dems politicization of the war effort.