Too funny. Crist snubs Bush. No doubt 'God' told him to stay away from The Burning Bush...he might get burned. Funny how 'God' tells these politicians what to do. "Go bomb the hell out of Afghanistan and Iraq!!" Whatever became of Separation between Church and State.
White House miffed by Fla. GOP candidate
2006/11
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
PENSACOLA, Fla. - The closer the election came to the finish line, the more President Bush ‘s aides battled the perception he was doing his party as much harm as good and was unwanted in many districts.
In a speech bracketed by raucous foot-stomping to country music and an explosion of metallic red-white-and-blue confetti, Bush won cheers for applauding Saddam Hussein ‘s conviction, lambasting Democrats on the war on terror and accusing the opposition party of plotting to raise taxes.
Next up was Arkansas, where Republican Asa Hutchinson remains well behind in his race to keep that governor‘s mansion in Republican hands.
It was still remarkable that, with so many Republicans around the country facing too-close-to-call races and with GOP majorities in the House, Senate and the nation‘s statehouses in jeopardy, Bush decided to spend capital on GOP Gov. Rick Perry, who hardly needed the president‘s assistance to get re-elected.
But Bush‘s final five-day sprint to Election Day took on little of the urgency of the last days before the 2002 midterm election, or certainly the close of his own re-election race two years ago.
Republican leaders say that the president‘s get-out-the-vote push in GOP strongholds was helping. The free media coverage that accompanies a presidential visit was keeping his party from having to spend precious dollars in those districts. And some new polls showed a lift in Republican enthusiasm for voting.
White House aides mocked Crist‘s choice to duck the Bush rally, which they only learned about on Sunday morning — too late to change the printed schedules that had Crist introducing the president at the rally.
Still, Karl Rove, Bush‘s top political adviser, suggested that reporters see whether Crist would be able to hastily assemble anything like the Pensacola event, which drew about 7,000.
With Crist , , ). She has run a much-panned Senate race that has had her Republican elders cringing and both the president and retiring Gov. Jeb Bush largely avoiding her.
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Cheney is going hunting today...election day. Perhaps he's looking for Christ!
Cheney to hunt on Election Day - Politics - MSNBC.com