Nothing pleases the left, and the press who sustain them, more than to report on the difficulties facing President Bush. A story in USA Today discusses the difficulty facing the GOP in congress as the President’s poll numbers continue to decline. USA Today and other media outlets have frequently reported with glee on the declining poll numbers of the president, since the moment he won a second term. They have gone to great lengths to portray him in the most negative light. Leftists in the Democratic Party have regularly painted Bush as a villain, a story that the media subjectively disseminates without even a token critique.

Recent polls of note have shown that more and more Americans feel the US is loosing the war in Iraq. Naturally, this is untrue but constant terror attacks in Iraq and the constant leftist assault have conveyed that opinion nonetheless. So, what does all this tell us? It tells us that the left’s disinformation campaign is a rousing success. Many “experts” will site the on going violence in Iraq as evidence in support of this view, but this violence is symbolic of something else. It is symbolic of the fact that the media has consistently presented a bleak view of Iraq from the onset. It is certainly true that Iraq is a dangerous place, but danger is only one aspect of the Iraq story. The country has made dramatic progress. This progress is rarely reported; even successful elections and the approval of the Iraqi constitution are given on slight attention. As the president has noted, a stable government is necessary for Iraq’s future and for the ongoing stability of the region and that step is being accomplished. More and more, Iraqis are shouldering more of the burden for their security and defense. More and more Iraqi civilians exercise freedoms that were unheard of under the Saddam era, more and more the Iraqi government is able to find and hunt down terror cells operating in its borders. These are success stories. Yes Iraq is violent, but that is to be expected. We are fortunate that we don’t live in the Civil War, American Revolution or World War II eras, as the government would have been compelled to surrender even on the cusp of victory.

The president, however, must shoulder a portion of the responsibility for his decline in the polls, however. Not since the election has the president clearly disseminated his message to the American people. Furthermore, the president remains inexplicably silent when it comes to issues like WMD and the farce that Iraq never possessed such weapons. Even Democratic leaders from Clinton on down admitted a contrary reality only a few years ago and while they now base such statements and Bush’s “faulty” intelligence, many WMD claims were made by the left BEFORE Bush took office. Bush also fails to highlight the incredible success of the US economy or the progress made in recovery from terror attacks and a recession. Perhaps the president should take a few more lessens from the Great Communicator and a few less from Karl Rove.
http://usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-13-gop-struggles_x.htm