Wednesday, March 11, 2009

When is it okay to hope the president fails?

.....When you're a Democrat and the president is a Republican.

Recently, Rush Limbaugh's words, "I hope the president fails" has become a lightning rod for critics of the conservative wing of the Republican party. What has been described as a concerted effort by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and leading Democrat strategists like James "the serpent" Carville, and Paul "the forehead" Begala to create a rift within the Republican party by intentionally taking Rush's words out of context.

What Rush had said, and I fully agree with, is that he wants Obama's (socialist) policies to fail to gain traction. And who in their "right" mind wouldn't want socialism to fail? I love America, I despise France.

Alas, Rush is not the first prominent pundit to hope the president of the opposition fails, but we would never know that if we had to rely on the mainstream media.

As reported by Bill Sammon of Fox News, March 11, 2009;

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: "I certainly hope he doesn't succeed."

Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president.

"We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I'm wanting them to turn against him," Greenberg admitted.

In 2006, 51 percent of Democrats wanted Bush to fail, according to a FOX News/Opinion Dynamics poll.

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