# 3..2..1.. Let the Low Poll Blues ignite the Meltdown (Cheney Curses). **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 25, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-2-1-let-the-low-poll-blues-ignite-the-meltdown-cheney-curses/252148 "2004-06-25T04:17:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-2-1-let-the-low-poll-blues-ignite-the-meltdown-cheney-curses/252148/21 "2004-06-28T10:18:28Z")
. . . . . …“Elizabeth!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-2-1-let-the-low-poll-blues-ignite-the-meltdown-cheney-curses/252148/22 "2004-06-28T20:15:14Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Not I. What was that? During the last campaign, after a speech, Bush leaned over to Cheney and refered to a reporter in the crowd (forget who, exactly) as “a major league asshole.” He was apparently unaware that his mike was still live. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-2-1-let-the-low-poll-blues-ignite-the-meltdown-cheney-curses/252148/23 "2004-06-28T21:20:32Z")
> [@Shade](#): > > \Cheney only SAID it. Clinton DID it, and do you here anyone criticizing him?\ What _is_ it with you people and Clinton? Nobody here is talking about Clinton. Give Clinton a rest. Yea, he was an asshole that had his knob polished. Big fucking deal. Just because we have some assholes on our side in no way negates that you guys have assholes on yours. We are now talking about the assholes on your side. When the Democrats are back in power, we can talk about those assholes and I will chime in every 6 fucking seconds to point out (apropos of nothing) that you guys had assholes in the last administration. Deal? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-2-1-let-the-low-poll-blues-ignite-the-meltdown-cheney-curses/252148/24 "2004-06-28T21:37:47Z")
**Shade** , You know, on reflection it occurs to me that you may have been parodying a Republican, in which case I probably owe you an apology for overreacting. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-2-1-let-the-low-poll-blues-ignite-the-meltdown-cheney-curses/252148/25 "2004-06-28T21:51:58Z")
Hey, don’t sweat it, **Binarydrone**. Seems to me that the Republicans are beyond parody by now. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-2-1-let-the-low-poll-blues-ignite-the-meltdown-cheney-curses/252148/26 "2004-06-29T19:28:13Z")
Oddly enough, I don’t see a lot of polls where Bush is behind. This [site,](http://www.pollingreport.com/wh04gen.htm) has Bush either dead even, or (if Nader is included, and he is still running) very slightly ahead. And [this one](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry.html) isn’t much different. Of course you can spin that as you like, and both sides will, but I doubt that Cheney is panicking with four months to go. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-2-1-let-the-low-poll-blues-ignite-the-meltdown-cheney-curses/252148/27 "2004-06-29T23:01:46Z")
This is what Cheney _et al_ are the most scared of: > [@](#): > > [url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/rnr/movies/rnr\_read.html?fid=.f5d2e71&showtimes=1&trailer=1&title1=Fahrenheit%209%2f11%20%28Movie%29&title2=Fahrenheit%209%2f11%20%28Movie%29&reviewer=A%2e%20O%2e%20Scott&pdate=20040623&sort=helpful]_New York Times,_ reader reviews > > - > - > - > - > - **Rattled one Republican,** June 25, 2004 > Reviewer: angeredux > > They came to boo and heckle. Instead, they sat stupified as the evidence, clearly unrefutable as it played before their eyes, hammered at them until one elderly woman member of the group, who later told me she thought she had voted for Jesus’s president (this is the Deep South), just erupted into tears at the sight of some of the collateral damage we left in Iraq. There was no heckling amongst that group of Evangelical Republicans. I spoke to them after the movie. Even the hardest cases answered my own distress with stony silence. > > I am a Republican and I came to see this film with my wife so that I would have some intelligent criticism to level at the Michael Moore fans I work with. I was expecting a sloppy, fuzzy, highly manipulated treatment. Instead, Bush Administration damns itself through its own actions, its own words, its own lies…all documented for prosperity. Is the film biased? Hell, yes. But I can’t see how any reasonable person would call this propaganda. It is documentary fact told by a man with a specific agenda in telling it. But there it is on the screen.Fact. It can’t be explained away. And as for criticism that the film is disrespectful to President Bush; well, after what we did to Clinton I would expect W. to take the heat like a man. The only problem is that the Clinton issue was nothing to the moral breach of this administration. > > Every Republican should see it before he casts his vote this November. It changed my vote. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-2-1-let-the-low-poll-blues-ignite-the-meltdown-cheney-curses/252148.md?page=1)