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Originally Posted by ratbastid
While I generally agree with your analysis, this simply isn't true.
In a poll released earlier this week, 30% of Americans favor impeachment. At the height of the Clinton impeachment circus, 25% favored, and when impeachment actually happened, it was 12% in favor of it. Clinton's impeachment--a transparently partisan manouver performed largely by men who hadn't admitted the illicit blowjobs they'd gotten--never had widespread public support. Impeachment proceedings against Bush would be supported by nearly a third of Americans. Considering he was elected by about that same percentage of all Americans, I think that says a lot.
This is a different statistic than the vaunted "approval rating", but as a higher bar, I think it's even more telling. "Do you disapprove" versus "do you want the guy out of there".
Incidentally, in a Zogby poll at the beginning of the year, 52% agreed with the statement, "If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."
I don't think Bush can bluster his way out at this point. The tide is fixing to turn in congress and--at the VERY least--he'll have to seriously watch his step for the rest of his term.
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If you think any large number of people who wats to impeach Bush were supporters in 2000 or 2004 you need to start to hang out with more conservatives. Who votes against you doesn't matter as long as more vote for you. Obviously the demonization of Bush is working with the left, but who cares?
Really the more frothy and screaming they become, they more they turn off moderate voters who don't see Bush as evil.
I hope they nominate someone all frothy for 2008 too, because any semi-sane democrat will win by default. Liberman getting ousted was a very good sign, though I think when it comes to the president the DNC will be more practical.