Wow! George Bush must really despise John McCain.

How do we know? The president is preparing to start campaigning for the presumptive Republican nominee.

Bush, whose approval rating is a little bit worse than that of Richard Nixon in the dark days of the Watergate scandal, will according to the White House begin joining the Arizona senator on the campaign trail in short order.

White House spokesman Scott Stanzel says, "I expect the president will be on the campaign trail very soon."

Stanzel refused to speculate about the specific date when Bush would begin appearing with McCain.

The McCain camp was similarly imprecise.

But, whatever the day and whatever the place when Bush will stand on the same stage with McCain, it is a safe bet that it will not come soon enough for the Barack Obama for President campaign.

By the way, does anyone have one of those old "No Third Term" pins?

Comments (20)

1. how odd.

   Monday, May 19, 2008 11:56:09 PM

   Posted by frosty zoom at 05/19/2008 @ 11:49pm

2. John, don't kid around with us here. I mean, this is WAY too good to be true.

   Posted by jmusolino at 05/20/2008 @ 12:17am

3. aahh, STRATEGERY. You gotta love it.

   Posted by Benchrest at 05/20/2008 @ 12:23am

4. A gift on high if there ever was one.

   Posted by Cccomfo1 at 05/20/2008 @ 01:07am

5. Run, don't walk, W, to your nearest bully pulpit & sing the praises John McC from now to Nov. Don't miss a day, don't miss a beat. Don't pay any attention to your critics, you're good at that, don't even ignore them. A Dem landlslide is the least you owe the country after the disasters you've inflicted on us.

   Posted by sloper at 05/20/2008 @ 02:59am

6. "What you lefties fail to understand is that Bush still enjoys popularity with Republicans. The latest Rasmussen poll shows Bush with 70% approval from Republicans."

   What you Republicans fail to understand is that it's not all about you:

   For the week ending May 16, just 32% of Americans approved of the way the George W. Bush performed his role as President.

   Posted by Balrog at 05/20/2008 @ 06:33am

7. "Like all polling firms, Rasmussen Reports weights its data to reflect the population at large. For the month of May, the targets are 41.3% Democrat, 31.8% Republican, and 26.9% unaffiliated."

   Let's look at Rasmussen's numbers: 70% of Republicans approve of Bush, but only 31.8% of the population is Republican. Bush approving Republicans thus represent only 22.26% of the population at large.

   Obviously, McCain needs the support of the Bush nonapprovers - the other 68% of the country - and equally obvious is the fact that parading around the country with Bush isn't going to impress those Bush nonapprovers.

   Posted by Balrog at 05/20/2008 @ 06:49am

8. We look forward to seeing President Bush.

   Posted by lvliberty1 at 05/20/2008

   The key data point being that "We" constitutes about 28%.

   Posted by Hman23 at 05/20/2008 @ 10:35am

9. With hope, Bush will make some stops in Missouri, Ohio, New Mexico, Nevada, Arkansas, and a few other "red" states where his approval ratings are dismal.

   Posted by Hman23 at 05/20/2008 @ 10:42am

10. None of you quite get it, do you. Too eager to show you are in on the in joke, missing the real joke, which is on the progressosphere. Here's what luv(hate)libs everywhere know. (cautionary note: its a Jew thing).

    Electoral politics is about sacrifice, which is about spilling sacrificial blood of vicims, symbolized by Jesus Christ. As psychohistorical retards, you probably haven't understood that yet.

    If One sacrifice is good, could another make it worse? 25% for Bush, 36% for McCain = 51%, Hey, Presto! Do YOU want to be the one who throws the blood of their children in the faces of the parents who have sacrificed sons and daughters for the cause of freedom? -- liberals do; all 10% or so of them.

    Now, Bush just sacrificed himself, the Christ of Christianity, and America, on the Knesset floor May 15, all three in one fell swoop. Pretty good for a Texas adoptee (never a native), self appointed Priest of Satan. Believe in Him and thou shalt surely die.

    McCain is already a Vietnam sacrifice, miraculously returned with a hole in his memory to match the period of the 60's climaxed by the Kent State shootings in l970, as if redeeming the death wish toward 60's bred virile refusnick youth, suffered by jealous Big Daddy WWII generation military psychopaths following Kennedy and the Catholics to kill Buddhists.

    Now today the Jerusalem Post is announcing 'Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term' http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1210668683139&pagename=JPost% 2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

    This announcement, in context after the Great Abomination, illustrates what I analyze elsewhere as a Double Reverse Swizzle* in sign use, in which the words and acts of the president have been value-reversed, into acts of a Judas priest, opening the veins of American spirituality to Satan, Lord of the reptile brain, without the music.

    "THE IRANIAN THREAT" blares the red banner across JP's website, bookended by pictures of Ahmadinejad on the right, Iran's flag on the right.

    The article cites Hezbollah's Lebanon victory as a spur to act now. "The disease must be treated, not its symptoms," Bush is quoted as saying. Purging the Aryian blood of the Jewish disease was precisely the psychotic idea behind the great German sacrifice under Hitler; their dead were a sacrificial ritual, too. Now this identical unconscious group-fantasy has blown back to America's shores by right-wing Knesset Jew shit fan, and I do mean the US media of communication. Now not only US foreign policy but US military plans originate from there.

    This following quote is a Hitlerian reversal, point for point, which I leave it to whoever will to analyze:

    "For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon."

    Posted by jones at 05/20/2008 @ 10:51am

11. Let this nightmare end soon.

    Posted by eniobob at 05/20/2008 @ 10:59am

12. What you lefties fail to understand is that Bush still enjoys popularity with Republicans.

    The latest Rasmussen poll shows Bush with 70% approval from Republicans.

    http://tinyurl.com/2wg72n

    We look forward to seeing President Bush.

    Posted by lvliberty1 at 05/20/2008

    What you neoconistas fail to understand is that the majority of Americans despise GW Bush and that many probably wouldn't urinate on the guy if his entrails were aflame.

    That 70% of your ilk still approve of the Shrubnaut only verifies the old adage that you can fool some of the people all of the time.

    Posted by skeletonman at 05/20/2008 @ 11:59am

13. He's thinking "Bush will be able to campaining for McCain in 'solid Republican' areas and bolster him with the base."

    Problem....THERE ARE NO "SOLID REPUBLICAN" AREAS ANYMORE. Not even in Louisiana or Mississippi (see: recent elections). Maybe in Utah or Montana (places that don't really come into play in November).

    Posted by Mask at 05/20/2008

    This is the beauty of the Republic congressional campaign for the fall - half the moola on hand that the Dems have, formerly safe districts in play requiring that time and money be spent in those areas with a presidential nominee to defend them who can't distance himself from the current White House occupant even if he (McCain) tried, now with that reprehensible cretin (Bush) in tow wherever McCain goes trying to shore up their faint hopes at halting a cataclysm in congress.

    Does anyone want to be a Republican candidate for anything above dogcatcher this year?

    Posted by skeletonman at 05/20/2008 @ 12:11pm

14. All Bush can do is help ensure that 22.26% of the population votes for McCain...and at the same time, ensures that the other 77.74% doesn't.

    Posted by Balrog at 05/20/2008

    But those dipfoofs will vote for McNasty (his nickname at the Maryland School for Wayward Sailors) no matter what, even if video were to be found of him bayoneting babies in Southeast Asia all those years ago.

    So for no gain whatsoever, Bush goes out and further alienates 78% of the country on Republic's dime.

    Is this a great country or what?

    Posted by skeletonman at 05/20/2008 @ 12:16pm

15. Posted by skeletonman at 05/20/2008

    Dems should run a candidate against John Boehner in the Ohio 8th. Find an Iraqi War vet from near Dayton and fund him decently.

    Sure, they'd have no shot (no Dem since 1939), but it would PANIC THE HELL out of the Repubs given what happened to Hastert's seat!

    Posted by Mask at 05/20/2008 @ 1:18pm

16. Sure, they'd have no shot (no Dem since 1939), but it would PANIC THE HELL out of the Repubs given what happened to Hastert's seat!

    Posted by Mask at 05/20/2008

    Excellent idea Mask. Not only would it scare the crap out of them, but they'd have spend what's left in their coffers to defend the seat.

    Posted by Wolfgang1 at 05/20/2008 @ 1:45pm

17. Posted by Wolfgang1 at 05/20/2008

    I'd say go after Tom Cole, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, but his seat is even more solid than Boehner's.

    Going after Boehner...even with the most conservative Dem required....would make them piss away $100,000s they could use in other races.

    Posted by Mask at 05/20/2008 @ 2:25pm

18. "We look forward to seeing President Bush"

    this is an awesome line! it proves that the psy-ops campaign was a whopping success!

    i nearly spilled tea all over the keyboard here....

    Posted by darladoon at 05/20/2008 @ 2:28pm

19. Posted by lvliberty1 at 05/20/2008

    I refer you to http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/. The electoral map does NOT work against Obama. You obviously are not in touch. McCains image in America will soon be that of Bush which 70% of Americans don't like whether you contend 70% of the total republicans or not like him doesn't matter. Republicans only make up 33% I think which will give him 28.8% of the total and those are 28% who are going to vote republican no matter what. Whether you like to admit to it or not Bush is a figure that now could sink an election and the Demo's have already been linking McCain to Bush and now that Bush is campaigning for him it going to be even easier. So all you state is nothing but opinion based on biased statements. Because I am sure for every statement and poll you quote I can find one that will have the opposite information that is just as credible.

    Posted by Cccomfo1 at 05/20/2008 @ 10:55pm

20. privatizing social security is a job for democrats, not republicans. After all, Bill Clinton has come the closest to succeeding in that task. If the repubs had let him finish out his term, he just might have pulled it off.

    Now, as for the rest of this, it seems like a no brainer for the obama campaign to go after McCain as McSame. After all, if he pulls it off, no ones going to attack him for playing dirty, not against the inheritor of the guy who won two elections with Karl Rove as his chief political advisor.

    Posted by shadow master at 05/21/2008 @ 5:44pm