# Bush Promises To Restore GOP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731 "2007-03-20T16:23:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/1 "2007-03-20T16:23:03Z")
Bush Promises To Restore Party Potency In Two Years > [@](#): > > President Bush, standing in front of a banner that read “Rebuilding Our Republican Majority” and flanked by two giant puzzle pieces, last night pledged to House Republicans that the GOP will retake both congressional chambers and “hold the White House in 2008.”… > “We’ve got a strong record to run on,” Mr. Bush said as members of Congress dined on beef tenderloin and jumbo shrimp. “The key is to learn from every election and to come back stronger. And with your help, that’s exactly what we’re going to do in 2008.”… Ookay… ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/2 "2007-03-20T16:26:56Z")
The phrase, “whistling past the graveyard,” comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/3 "2007-03-20T16:33:32Z")
This is a bold pledge coming from a man who has done the Republican Party more deep and lasting damage than any pol since Nixon. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/4 "2007-03-20T16:44:26Z")
The OP had two pairs of words that shouldn’t be in the same sentence. Bush…potency and jumbo shrimp. I think his electoral predictions will be just as accurate as his post-war Iraq predictions. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/5 "2007-03-20T17:18:49Z")
How’s the Gulf Coast coming along? Bush promised repeatedly to fix that too. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/6 "2007-03-20T17:20:44Z")
It seems rather odd for a guy who just scraped past 50% of votes in both of his elections to be talking about having a “strong record.” ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/7 "2007-03-20T17:21:13Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] How’s the Gulf Coast coming along? Bush promised repeatedly to fix that too. [/QUOTE] I think he’ll fix that one up shortly after he restores the GOP’s credibility. (After all, he has to get his priorities right). ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/8 "2007-03-20T17:24:06Z")
Clearly, the Democrats are in their last throes. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/9 "2007-03-20T17:27:52Z")
> [@](#): > > President Bush, standing in front of a banner that read “Rebuilding Our Republican Majority” The convenient thing is that they already had a handy banner from a few years back, and could paint the new message on the reverse side. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/10 "2007-03-20T17:57:14Z")
I have this mental image of someone going through a particularly gruesome accident, then waking up in the ER to find that Dr Kevorkian would be in charge of his recovery. (Which is not entirely fair to Dr Kevorkian, but you know how mental images are. They don’t always follow orders.) ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/11 "2007-03-20T18:11:04Z")
\*\*YES! \*\* Go for it, George! Work your magic! Don’t let anyone change your mind! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/12 "2007-03-20T18:18:19Z")
It’s like the iceberg offering to fix the Titanic. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/13 "2007-03-20T18:19:14Z")
As a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat I sincerely hope that George W. Bush plays a strong leadership role in the Republican Party for years to come. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/14 "2007-03-20T18:25:26Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] As a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat I sincerely hope that George W. Bush plays a strong leadership role in the Republican Party for years to come. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Let’s hope he goes on the campaign trail in 2008–helping all the Republican candidates. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/15 "2007-03-20T18:34:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Bush Promises To Restore GOP From backup tapes made before the crash? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/16 "2007-03-20T18:53:09Z")
[QUOTE=AHunter3] From backup tapes made before the crash? [/QUOTE] But that’s a Plan B, and we don’t need no steenkin’ Plan B… ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/17 "2007-03-20T19:06:41Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] It seems rather odd for a guy who just scraped past 50% of votes in both of his elections to be talking about having a “strong record.” [/QUOTE] He lowered taxes multiple times. If that’s not a free pass to unlimited political power, what is? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/18 "2007-03-20T19:17:41Z")
Given that I despise the Republicans, and given Bush’s track record, I have to say “GO, BUSH, GO !” I have a mental image of a news story on CNN a few years in the future; “In 2007 when then President Bush promised to restore the GOP majority, no one could have guessed the present state of the Republican Party. The majority of the membership dead, outlawed internationally, and Bush being burned in effigy as we speak on the White House lawn by President-for-Life Hillary Clinton.” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/19 "2007-03-20T19:26:13Z")
**MPSIMS** or **IMHO**? There is no debate in the OP and no one responding has attempted to enter one. (And it is certainly not a rant for the **Pit**.) ---
**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:** [March 20, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731/20 "2007-03-20T19:45:34Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] **MPSIMS** or **IMHO**? There is no debate in the OP and no one responding has attempted to enter one. (And it is certainly not a rant for the **Pit**.) [/QUOTE] MPSIMS – the posts are way too hilarious for anywhere else. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-promises-to-restore-gop/396731.md?page=2)