{"id":1556,"date":"2009-03-11T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2009-03-11T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T13:39:11","slug":"they-hope-the-president-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"They Hope the President Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"

By "they" I meant American Democrats.  Not the establishment; the rank and file.  And by "President", I meant George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

In a poll<\/a> (PDF file) conducted in August of 2006, one of the questions was this:<\/p>\n

10.  Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to succeed or not? <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 <\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nDon’t know<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8-9 Aug 06<\/td>\n63%<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Democrats<\/td>\n40%<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Republicans<\/td>\n90%<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Independents<\/td>\n63%<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Hat tip: Patterico<\/a>, who notes that we were in the thick of a war whose outcome was uncertain.  When Democrats try to take the moral or patriotic high ground regarding what one man, Rush Limbaugh, said, just remind them what a majority of all of them<\/em> said just 2 1\/2 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By "they" I meant American Democrats.  Not the establishment; the rank and file.  And by "President", I meant George W. Bush. In a poll (PDF file) conducted in August of 2006, one of the questions was this: 10.  Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,26,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-politics","category-polls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t