MORE Rove wisdom: "Bush's approval rating is in the 60s in some polls."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195547,00.html

Rove accused the news media of being too fixated on polls. "I love this mania which has swept through American media today which substitutes polls for coverage of substance," he said.

"There's, I'm sure, going to be a special Betty Ford addiction for those that are addicted to regular poll numbers, but you'll work your way through it," he said, referring to the former first lady's clinic for treating substance abuse.

Despite low approval ratings, "I'm sanguine," Rove said. "I know our own polls."

He said that Bush's likeability, his personal approval ratings, were in the 60s in some polls. "Job approval is lower. And what that says to me is that people like him, they respect him, he's somebody they feel a connection with, but they're just sour right now on the war. And that's the way it's going to be."

[stopbush]

1. "Some people" like David Blaine. It doesn't mean they want him

running the country.

[texasleo]

2. he'll be taking polls in prison

[Contrary1]

12. I think that would be "poles". n/t

[Vickers]

3. I don't think it's in the 60s even in his own Cabinet.

:eyes:

[annabanana]

15. HA!

damn... I liked that keyboard

[samdogmom]

4. Are those "polls" tallied on the same computers Rove used to fix the vote?

No wonder they're so positive. Bush has his "mandate" back. Go figure.

[BR_Parkway]

5. Are you positive GWB lied - 60%+ say YES, are you convinced that

GWB manipulated intell to take us to war in Iraq - 60%+ say YES
Would you positively like to see GWB tried for War Crimes - 60%+ say YES
Are you positive that GWB is the Worst President Ever? 60%+ say YES

Guess KKKarl is right, it's all in the way the question is asked - Shrub does poll positively above 60% in many questions that I can think of.

[11cents]

6. Just as Colbert said

67% of Americans approve of the job Bush is not doing.

[Virginia Dare]

7. What a sad little putz he is....

keep preaching the lies Karl, your choir gets smaller by the day.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. The media's fixation on polls is nothing new

Ever since I was a teenage news junky, the media was fixated on the President's approval ratings. In those days, it was LBJ.

(Rove) said that Bush's likeability, his personal approval ratings, were in the 60s in some polls.

So, we have a misleading headline from FoxNews. I'm shocked, shocked! I say, that FoxNews would stoop to spinning a story like that.

[catnhatnh]

9. Sanguine.....

...you know it's from the old french meaning "bloody" right??Well right again Karl-you ARE a bloody fucking criminal!!!

[Brazenly Liberal]

10. Yeah, but that 60% was when they polled Laura, Barbara and Jenna

So ya' gotta wonder which one dogged him? My money is on Jenna.

[Auntie Bush]

16. You forgot Harriette, Condi, Mary Matlin and Karen.

[gasperc]

11. substance, this shit talks about substance?

holy fuck what is talking about?

Mr mission accomplished??

Mr. Save social security??

Mr. War on terror??

[Fridays Child]

13. "I'm sanguine. I know our own polls." WTF is that supposed to mean?

In one breath, he says the news relies too much on polls and, in the next, he expresses confidence in "our own polls?" What exactly are "our own polls?" Are those the ones he conducts in the Oval Office to determine how much fraud and deceit the administration can get away with?

[applegrove]

14. Yeah - Bush is at 60 in the Republican only polls. LOL

:nopity:

[Jai4WKC08]

17. That 60+% is probably what Rove tells Bush

And since Bush doesn't read, he believes it.

I can't wait see him on Nov 8th saying, "Wha' happened?"

[rock]

18. Then why spend money on polls?

Karl? Karl? Karl?

[Vidar]

19. Among prbationary White House staff maybe.