Quote:The exact same could be said for Bush. He still has an approval rating of 65%-70%. Barring a major **** up in the next 18 months [insert flame here], people will remember the tough times Bush helped lead us through. Come election time, there will be no one from the donkey party that can touch him. Bank on it.

His daddy had a 90 percent approval rating at one point during the First Gulf War, and he lost.

This is suggestive, I think. Remember, that, before the Second Gulf War began, at least half the country (and maybe more) did not agree going to war was the right thing to do in the absence of U.N. or signficant international support.

I believe more people are crabby about this war than are willing to say so to anyone, including a telephone pollster. Some people are beating Americans over the head with the (unpatriotic) idea that it's unpatriotic to criticize the president or his war.

I don't think these approval ratings have legs. I really don't. Bush very easily could lose when America gets back to normal and realizes that the economy is very crappy right now.

Bush could always gamble and invade another country, of course. But I'm not even sure that would work.