The Big Brawl: George W Bush vs Tom DeLay

[Domitan]

In this corner is George W Bush representing the Corporation...

and in the other corner is Tom DeLay representing the Religious Right.

Who would you prefer to be the last man standing while the other man is down for good? You can't get away with saying "Let both of them knock each other out" or "I'm not doing this." You must choose which one stands while the other one falls for good.

[BrainRants]

1. Without the religious right, Shrub is dead.

I don't think it works the other way around.

On edit: Great thought provoking poll!

[coloradodem2005]

2. I am going with Bush.

Bush's handlers will make sure he is alright and they have more power than DeLay. Besides, the corporation are who the Republicans are really representing, not the Religious right. The RR are patsies.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Exactly

Bush gets their agenda done. DeLay is a nobody to them.

[fob]

3. If this could be made to happen I'd like to see Delay take shrub* out,

with all this crap that's gone down the fucker* is still standing somehow. Plus Delay and his blatant lack of morals/ethics is much easier taken down himself. So I vote Delay takes out bush* and then we take out Delay.

[FreedomAngel82]

8. I wonder why he's still here too

I think he's slowly going down though. I wonder what he'll do when he leaves if anything.

[fob]

10. My hope is that he* is rewarded with his* real dream job, Commissioner of

Baseball. I know it's cruel to say that because he* WILL make a mess of Baseball just like he* fucks up everything he* touches, but in the end he* will be thrown out of that position in disgrace and the damage he* will do will be forever tied to republicans and from that, they may NEVER recover.

[Selteri]

4. I'm for Bush winning since it will

kill his base, he's chosen to stand by Delay too hard and now it'll take him out after the fight.

[Mikimouse]

5. Let 'em take each other out...n/t

[bunny planet]

6. If the Hammer is gone, His Fraudulency will have lost his strongarm in the

House. He will be in hot water soon without his Capo the Bugman still in place.

[yurbud]

9. DeLay represents corporate America as much as Bush

and both sucker religious right.

[Domitan]

11. I despise the corporate whores, but

I fear the religious fanatics even more.

[PaDem]

12. These two men represent the same things........

there is little difference. Bush has been a little more careful politically about his connection with the Religious Right, mostly becuase more is at stake for him.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Tom has used poison gas on his own kind!

COCKROACHES!

[Stinky The Clown]

14. I voted for DeLay

While I think the religious extremists are the bigger long term threat, I think taking bushco down is the quickest way to get back to sanity. If Bush stays on top, he stays where he is ... complete control wielded (mostly) legally through the entire government. With or without the Theocratists, he has power now and can engineer a long term dominance.

If DeLay stands, that would be a better opportunity for our side to get back into power. Without the bushco machine to give them a broad voice, they go back to being a vocal, but relatively powerless, minority. With our return to power, their organization can be legally and equitably dismantled. And besides, to other than their own members, they're not a sympathetic bunch. They're quite a bit more overtly frightening than Bush's "common man/cowboy' image.

These *are* two different groups - much overlap, to be sure - but two different groups with two different agendas. Their relationship is both symbiotic and parasitic. I see bushco being the host organism. Kill the host and the parasite eventually dies.

That's my take.

Good question, by the way! :hi:

[RAF]

15. neither

what kind of poll is this?

[Domitan]

18. One that creates a forced choice

even if you don't like the options. C'mon, show more balls here.

[TheFarseer]

20. I like this poll

it's all a question of strategy. I had to vote Delay because it's hard to be the good guy fighting religious extremism. It's easy to be the good guy fighting corporate whores.

[rocktivity]

16. Bush has what DeLay doesn't--Rove and Cheney in his corner

DeLay's mistake was warning the GOP that he wouldn't support them financially if they didn't support him. That would shift the balance of power away from the Bush Oval Office, and they're not about to stand for that. You think it's an accident that that ethics committee is back in business under its former rules? They've taked of going after Democrats, but I think that's a smokescreen. Their mission, as decreed by the Bush Oval Office, is to dispose of DeLay--and the harder he hangs on, the harder he's going to fall.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Which gives even more credence to the notion that the best thing

is to see Bush go down before Delay.

[AntiCoup2K4]

19. If choice #1 includes the Corporate Media, then it gets my vote.

Without the complicity of the whore media, the religious reich and BugBoy are nothing.