Bush is going for the public appearances because every Republican out there is hoping they are not tied to him or Iraq. Even Arnold has an ad from his opponent saying George W. Bush, over and over in that thick accent. It is effective. GWub polls were so low over just about everything he had to do the talk show circuit. So he inched up from totally incompetent to inept. He spoke intelligently for a few minutes longer than usual. All is not forgiven. Our National Debt is like a runaway gas pump, ding, ding, dinging nonstop, in Iraq. What party had the Presidency, and maybe even more important here, the Vice Presidency, the house and senate when we entered their civil war? How many billion trillion has it cost? Have we made any progress? The voters could vote a mass exodus of the Republican party, I have seen it before. When you have candidates trying to distance themselves from the president, you have serious issues. Those odds are sharp, it is a toss up. The polls I see have the currents at below 35%. Sometimes below that. I would hate to have 2/3's of the voters disgruntled at my party and watch them vote demo down the entire ticket. Those odds could change rapidly.
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