White House Windup - The Washington Note

[applegrove]

November 5, 2006, 4:36 pm
White House Windup
The Washington Note

"Bush ends his final campaign swing on an anticlimactic note, dropping in on the Florida Panhandle, rural northwest Arkansas and his home state of Texas. One of the main candidates he’s scheduled to stump for today, Florida gubernatorial nominee Charlie Crist, let it be known on Sunday he isn’t even planning to show up for the rally at the Pensacola Civic Center. Crist campaign officials explained that he’s doing fine in the Panhandle and they figured he could better spend his time elsewhere. He’s planning to cover the peninsula in a seven-city blitz. Not surprisingly, Crist’s opponent, Rep. Jim Davis, immediately claimed the state’s attorney general is ducking his president.


Bush Appearing with the president instead will be his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush, and Senate candidate Katherine Harris – whom White House strategists regarded as so hapless that they tried to ease her out of the race last summer. In Arkansas, Bush’s appearance on behalf of the gubernatorial nominee, former congressman Asa Hutchinson, has a similar perfunctory feel – Hutchinson, although well liked in mainstream Republican circles, is way behind in polls.

With his approval ratings hovering around 40%, the president has been a less-than-dominant presence in the late campaigning. He’s avoided altogether several of the big battleground states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. The White House has been quick to refute suggestions that Bush is losing relevance, however. Asked about how Bush feels about being on his last campaign, spokesman Tony Snow said, “I know you guys are desperate for, you know, the President sort of putting on the spurs and walking off into the sunset, but there’s also a 2008 campaign to come and two more years of this presidency. Trust me, you guys need to strap on your running shoes, because it’s going to be a busy two years.” – John D. McKinnon

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http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/11/05/white-house-windup/

[applegrove]

1. Spending the day with Katharine Harris !

[Atman]

2. I see a drunken threeway in their future!

They'll be drowning in their tears, and a quart of Jim Beam by this time tomorrow afternoon! That always leads to trouble...a big-ol three-way sympathy fuck!

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