Hewitt on the "great Bush comeback": Despite tanking poll numbers, Bush always "ends up with all the cards and all the money"
On Your World, blogger and radio host Hugh Hewitt explained in an interview with Neil Cavuto why those who are currently "calling the president, 'damaged goods' ... can be prepared to eat their own words." Hewitt predicted that media figures "are going to have to answer to themselves again how they could have been so wrong, again." During the entire interview, an onscreen caption read, "Coming Soon: The Great Bush Comeback?"
On the March 17 edition of Fox News' Your World With Neil Cavuto, conservative blogger and radio host Hugh Hewitt explained why those who are currently "calling the president, 'damaged goods' ... can be prepared to eat their own words." After host Cavuto played a video clip montage of media figures noting President Bush's falling poll numbers, Hewitt claimed that "it doesn't really matter" that Bush's approval rating continues to fall. Hewitt declared: "Each time they pronounce him flat on his back, the poker player [Bush] ends up taking all the cards and all the money off of the table." He further predicted that the media figures Cavuto highlighted at the beginning of the segment "are going to have to answer to themselves again how they could have been so wrong, again." During the entire interview, an onscreen caption read, "Coming Soon: The Great Bush Comeback?"
From the March 17 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
CAVUTO: You don't think the president can make a big comeback? My next guest says, "Think again." And this is why.
[begin video clip]
CHRIS MATTHEWS (MSNBC host): Devastating new numbers for President Bush today.
KATIE COURIC (NBC News host): President Bush's plunging poll numbers.
ANDERSON COOPER (CNN host): Mr. Bush's popularity is crumbling.
[end video clip]
CAVUTO: Again and again and again. All week long, news personalities all but calling the president, "damaged goods." My next guest says they can be prepared to eat their own words. From Irvine, California, radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt. Why is that Hugh?
HEWITT: Well Neil, it's a semiannual story now. Every six months or so, the mainstream media comes along with "the Bush presidency is finished." The funny thing is, they've been doing it every year since the president's first term began in 2001, and each time they pronounce him flat on his back, the poker player ends up taking all the cards and all the money off of the table.
Right now, the poll numbers are bad, but it doesn't really matter to a president who's not facing reelection, and who, in the midterms in November, only has to bring home three or four Republican senators -- and there are great pick-up opportunities in Maryland, in New Jersey, in West Virginia, in Washington state and Michigan. He's going to hold the House and so, once again, I think, he's going to end up 6-for-6 -- twice as governor, twice as president, twice in the midterms, and then, those pundits that you were quoting at the beginning are going to have to answer to themselves again how they could have been so wrong, again.
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Since the press has apparently sold out, Puddinhead has redefined the meaning of the term "Teflon President". Bush will no doubt leave the office of President much richer than when he entered, as will most members of his administration.
Are Republicans proud of this?
But all his cronies and coporate buddies are gonna be living large, too, thanks to all the wonderous oil war contracts that my grandkids' grandkids will be paying for. Yes sir, planting the seeds of the grand Republican vision of a two-class America: the rich and those they stepped on to get there.
"...the poll numbers are bad, but it doesn't really matter to a president who's not facing reelection..."
Wow, no kidding, thanks, genius, for stating the obvious. Dubya doesn't care about public opinion. I couldn't have said it better myself.
"I think, he's going to end up 6-for-6"
For fooling enough people to vote in his favor? Yep, it's all about winning elections and keeping the corporate donation machine oiled up. Following Hewitt's logic, the good you do in office is not a measure of how successful you are. But what if it was? Let's see, Iraq, bin Laden, Katrina, Social Security, the enovironment, job exporting, "Mission Accomplished" ... , ... Yeah, looks like he's about 0-for-500 on those.
This point highlights the dangerous absurdity of the Republican political ego. At the end of the day, it's not about serving this country and its citizens, its about winning elections. In a Republican's mind, who cares about Katrina, Iraq, Iran, etc., etc., etc., ....as long we we keep winning elections, everything is ok.
It's this type of dangerous carefree arrogance that will not only destroy the Republican party, but unfortunately take the country down with it.
HEWITT: Bush "ends up taking all the cards and all the money off of the table."
Bush is like the drunken tourist who bluffs off everything in his wallet in an hour. What does he do then? Straight to the ATM, again, and again. Wouldn't really be a big problem except the sharks at the table are Japan and China and all other Americans are like the tourists wife and kids who wait at home helplessly while drunk dad gets fleeced.
Great analogy with Bush as the "drunken sailor" with mom and the kids in dread at home while "dad" gambles away the rent money... but it's much worse than that.
Bush is not only destroying our economic future, he's killing tens of thousands of people and maiming and dismembering exponentially more than that, with his wrongheaded policies. It's not just money, it's life and limb, and for WHAT? Is America SAFER? Not in any way.
This is a drunken sailor who has run through all the family's money, and then sells the kids into slavery and to the makers of snuff films. Such evil surpasses any monetary greed and avarice.
It's such a great bit! It's always a liberal media slant. Please.
No matter what happens... the 'press' can be called stupid... then they get scared...then they start repeating the same crap this guy Hewitt is seeding. Mathews is hardly one to say Bush is doing poorly -- unless, of course, it's a bogus rhetorical question.