No Republican left behind
The White House is eating its own in a desperate attempt to prop up Bush's failed policy in Iraq.
Jittery righties spend $15M in ad blitz to keep Republican support for war .. "Don't give up, ads urge GOP"
They have a campaign war room for the war.
These ads, being run by a White House-supported front group, are actually swift-boating Republicans .. the same Republicans who are feeling the heat from voters back home because of their support for Bush's failed war policy.
From NY Daily News: WASHINGTON - Following Sen. John Warner's call to start pulling troops out of Iraq, jittery Bush loyalists are pressuring Republican fence-sitters to stay the course with a $15 million ad campaign.
Republicans weighing a U.S. military withdrawal in Iraq got hit this week by a blitz of intimidation ads - paid for by fellow Republicans.
The TV and radio spots targeting 37 House and Senate Republicans urge support for President Bush's war and not "surrender."
One of those targeted with an extraordinary $145,000 TV ad buy is upstate Rep. Jim Walsh, a politically vulnerable Republican from Syracuse who has aligned himself with Democrats to oppose the Baghdad surge.
The spots are the latest sign of a White House worried about lawmakers turning on Bush to urge that troops be brought home, as Warner (R-Va.) did this week.
....Warner, 80, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a former Secretary of the Navy, said Bush should bring some G.I.s home by Christmas. [..]"
If the Bush administration spent a fraction of the time on Iraq policy that it spends on PR for the war, we might not be in this mess .. we might have an exit strategy.
But hey, if the GOP wants to crucify itself by forcing Republicans in Congress into positions that will cost them their seats .. fine with me.
Maybe in December of 2008, instead of "No Child Left Behind" we can thank Bush for "No Republican Left behind in Congress."
