The 12% must be some truly stupid people. Or truly evil.

More likely the 12% are naive.

Or perhaps the 12% actually have a personal stake (emotional, financial, etc) in GWB's policies.

These 12% are ex-school yard bullies, threateners, abusers, and buffoons, just like their fearless Nazi leader, little boy bush.

How about a constitutional amendment stating that if over 66% of registered voters vote no-confidence at regularly held, quarterly confidence ballots a new election for (president & vice president) would be held within 3 months time? We sort of need an escape clause.

The 12% are probably Al Queda sympathizers.

Some of the 12% have done very well by Bush and some of them just plain don't pay attention.

What is so disturbing is that this is the first truly anti-intellectual president. As David Brooks points out in his NY Times column, failure to use your intellect sends lemmings over the cliff. By "trusting his gut feelings" (umm, Putin played him for a fool), the incurious George has reaped what he sowed. His "gut" sent him on oil well drilling safaris which turned up 100% dry. He was bailed out by his Saudi connections. The incurious George is a smart politician, a bully, and fiercely protected. He will be in "worst president" by historian's standards in my humble opinion. Whether he will succeed in dragging the US to 2nd nation status as he unconsciously wishes (again in my humble opinion) will be up to fate.

It's my belief that the 12% who strongly approve of Bush are more concerned about the fortunes of their political party rather than the fortunes of the country.

There are 12% of the people in America who would set off a bomb in the house that they and a liberal are sitting in, as long as they could be guaranteed that they would see the liberal die first. They like Bush solely because liberals hate him. It's called "cutting off your nose to spite your face."

My mom is one of the 12 percenters. I moved out of the country because I hate Bush so much. Now my mom is happy that all her money is riding down to zero in the stock market, because I've been advising her to buy a little gold and sell her bank stocks. She's pleased that she ignored the sensible advice of a traitorous liberal, and chuckles "There goes your inheritance." (Not that it matters to me -- my wife and I sold our house at the peak of the market, cashed out our IRAs and moved the money into, ahem, other currencies and other countries, so we're set.)

That's the Bush Republican mindset. Screw your family, screw yourself, just to frustrate someone who's on the correct side. It's a cult, the Cheney Death Cult.

Actually there are people who just, well, really aren't that educated. They may be in all otherwise quite smart, they're just not educated, from a wide variety of news sources. They have a fundamental life view that has been exploited by GWB and his administration and for whatever reason they continue to cling to the illusion. My father-in-law, an otherwise extremely horse-smart guy, is one of them. But he's retired and Fox is his news source and that's it. (shrug) Not much you can do about it.

That 12% -- they must be the group of "some people" you can fool all of the time.

I think that 12% works for Halliburton, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mc. Thanks to God there is still loyal people.....

Well, I was going to comment... but then I read sweaver's comment... and he got it right on the money.

The 12% are probably Al Queda and boardmembers of Halliburton and the Carlyle Group. Idiots most likely

Can't he do the country a favor and resign already? The only people left in that bottom sliver have to be billionaires for Bush.

These numbers should be shown as "Bell Curves"!!!

The 12% that still approve of this Assjack piece of human filth must be the absolutely stupidist people on earth. If you voted for George Bush, this is all your fault. Oh, and phuque you too.

The 12% who strongly approve are: Halibuton employees, Carlyle Group-ies, Kissinger Associates, Bill O'Reilly's Parade of Blonde Buddies, George and Bar, and all the Ditto Heads out there.

Actually, many of the 12%--ahem, the 28%--are blogging today, every day, on Politico. I have nothing critical to say about Politico except that it does attract the 12% (28%) bloggers.

The Republicans seem to be past masters at finding "brain-dead" and "brain-less" candidates for US Presidency, packaging them and selling them to a majority of US Electorate, that is uneducated and dumb.

How low has the country has fallen in the eyes of the World after World War II!!!

Really does show a need for a no child left behind program. Goes to show that republicans who stand behind Bush put party before country and are to small minded to admit they made a error in supporting this terrorist. How can anyone support this clown? Do they have so much money that nothing he does effects them? or are they simple off their medications because they can no longer afford them. So sad we were once a great nation, we are now life support and Bush holds the plug.

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The 12% = oil and gas executives + defense contractor executives + the mentally ill + evangelicals + cronies in his administration + all fox faux news personnel + US-based friends of osama + ALL US billionaires (except Buffett) + assorted right-wing-nut-jobs + the dozen or so that do not believe there is global warming + the author of "My Pet Goat" + all those scared that something will happen to him and we'll get Cheney as President.

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Remember that the job of any president, even an unpopular one is diverse and complicated. Gerald Ford even advocated two presidents, one for domestic matters and one for foreign affairs. At least 12% of the people think the Irag war will be judged as good policy in the long run. Those people may approve of Bush despite his sorry record on environmental matters or the economy. Instead of simply polling questions like "do you approve....", why not ask "..if you approve, why specifically do you approve...". Then the rest of us might learn something other than the opinions of pundits and bloggers.

We have become a third world country, thanks to the Republicans!!! We have more uneducated than the developing countries. We are the greatest debtor nation in the world. We are the greatest polluters of the earth. We kill more people in the name of democracy. We interfere in internal affairs of more countries. We support more dictators. We have the worst healthcare system in the Western World. We have a series of worst economic crises. We bailout more private economic misadventures with taxpayers' money. We are printing more and more Dollar Bills as though there is no end in sight. We are buying even the day-to-day necessities from China. Foreign countries are holding large amounts of dollars and can crash the value of the Dollar and the country by switching to Euro. And, the list goes on!!!

I hope we wake up soon!!!

Otherwise we will reach a point of no return and plunge the World into World War III with our military might, just like the Nazis did with their Military Machine!!!

Good grief. This is a country where evolution vs. "creationism" is hotly debated. It's hardly surprising that there are 12 percent out there who strongly approve of this guy's performance!

What is a leader to do when only 12% of his subjects approve of his reign? Beware the October surprise. (show smiley with a Dick Cheney grin)

I suspect that one would find that at least 12% believe that Newton's laws are secular-humanistic propaganda, that Darwin has nothing to do with the biological sciences, and that Rush Lamebaugh is a genius. We've come a long way--to have the most inefficient health care system in the developed world, to have public and private debts that equal our net worth, to losing the hard-won respect we once had in the Western world, and the beat goes on.

The 12% republican-or-bust diehards can have him.

In fact, you can have him right now, please. Just hop onto your little bicycles and you can all ride off into the sunset. Honk, honk!

How about a constitutional amendment stating that if over 66% of registered voters vote no-confidence at regularly held, quarterly confidence ballots a new election for (president & vice president) would be held within 3 months time? We sort of need an escape clause.

Posted by: | July 15, 2008 1:17 PM

ONE OF THE BEST POLICY PROPOSALS I HAVE HEARD IN SOME TIME. SIMPLE, AND BRILLIANT. WHO ARE YOU?

Are you sure that it isn't a typo and it is actually 12 Americans that strongly approve of Bush, rather than 12% of Americans?

There will always be a reduced bunch of imbeciles.

On the other hand, if Dummy One had any decency he would resign, as only 12% of idiots support him (they all work for Fox-Aljazeera).

The lame-brained 12% who still support Bush are the same ones who think that Obama is a Muslim terrorist.

I am more startled by the 3% who have "no opinion." No opinion about the performance of the country's president as he nears the end of eight years in office! Three percent of the population has just awakened from a coma\been rescued from a desert island\emerged from solitary confinement in a Siberian gulag. And why would someone who has "no opinion" be interested in responding to a poll? Do these folks plan to vote, and how can they be prevented from doing so?

This would indicate that most Americans don't enjoy comic Karaoke in a crisis. That's interesting . . . . What changed?

Actually the 12% include editorial cartoonists, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and comics everywhere who will have to go to work once this crowd is out of office. Washington comic Mark Russell went into a deep depression when Nixon resigned.

Another poll shows that 1 in 5 Americans believe the sun revolves around Earth. So it maybe isn't so surprising that 12% would approve of shrub

This is one LOSING MOTHER F****ER.
Plain and simple.
12% are the "Culls", the defectives, resulting from too easy environment, inbreeding, defects, etc.

Wow. I didn't realize that 12% of the country owned stock in Halliburton.

If you think Bush is the problem and it will all be gone with the next president, you're living in a dreamworld.
Corporatism controls our government and they buy the party in power or just have their people elected. Bush is only a gopher for his corporate masters.
I believe this is the most corrupt republican party we've had in my 60 years.(Although Reagan as president was more corrupt or sick) I've seen nothing to change that. But the democrats aren't far behind.

History will show George Bush as the worst president US ever had. He has played into the hands of our enemies. Osama bin Laden will be happy with what George Bush as achieved. He presented Iraq in a platter to Iranians, killed their biggest enemy-Saddam,
He is responsible for 4000 American Deaths in Iraq. When will 12% understand that America is being destroyed by their own leaders.

Are people @#$@ NUTS?

Any approval for this evil freak of nature is sick.

Say what you will about the 12%... It takes more than 12% of the extreme right to elect a president. I think the people who supported Bush in 2000 and again in 2004 but now "disapprove" of the job he's doing now are worse than the 12% that still support him. All the things they disapprove of now were quite evident in 2000 and certainly evident in 2004.

The 12% are the "sheeple". Bush has led them over the cliff and most are still not aware that they are falling.

I am going to start a band and call it "The 12%." Sort of a wry political commentary, no? We will wear garbage bags over our heads with devil horns sticking out the top. It will be like the devil you don't know.

Sort of like The Residents...but not.

Twenty-eight percent?

If (when) the number dips below 25, can we put the moron before a firing squad?

I know some very smart and successful people who still support Bush. The common thread is that they live in an echo chamber where the only news that they hear is that either (a) reported on FOX (the only source they trust) or (b) forwarded to them by like-minded individuals.

Admitting that you were wrong all along is extremely painful to some people. So they avoid it by avoiding all news unless it supports their general view of "I am right, the rest are stupid." Otherwise, they read an article and seize on any scrap that they can use to support their pre-formed views.

The most deflating commentary I can think of is that with a half year of his presidency to go Bush and his administration have become so utterly irrelevant. Only one word comes to mind when assessing him, then and now. Pipsqueak.

Where's jakeD defending the shrb?

The 12 percenters are the ones in the White House Bubble, their extended families and friends, and the corporate rich who have won favor, money and contracts with those in the White Hosue Bubble.

amirite?

I have always referred to w as that moron w. Just type in idiot or moron and george w. bush's name will come up. But it the Americans who put this piece of filth in office that are truly reprehensible. These were mentally defective and ignorant people to inflict an idiot like w on this country and the world. It is enough to make this agnostic say my god.

All surveys have an inherent 12% of fake responses

Vote Republican get Communism.

Who'd of Thunk it.

they are the 12 percent who enjoy eating buttholesausages

Judging by some of your editorials, Fred Hiatt must be a 12 percenter.

12% "strongly approve" and 16% "somewhat approve" are proof that a 1930's Brownshirt Germany totalitarian regime exists for 28% of those in Amerika in 2008.

These 12% are what Wallis was talkin about.

I wonder if these are the same 12% that beleive Obama is a Muslim even though it is a known fact he is a Christian? But wait I am thinking, obviously something that 12% is not doing.

Let me see the 12% must be McCain, Graham, Lieberman, all the CEO'S, the oil companies, military contracters and lobbyist!

People vote (in elections and in polls and surveys) based on what's important to them at that time. If you're in a six digit income, the price of gas, even at $4 or higher might not be that important to you (forgetting that you might in fact receive a gas allowance form your employer); if you're above the financial curve, know no on in the military (let alone have family or friends in Iraq or Afghanistan), are in good health, you might agree with the job the President is doing (or the job that your member of Congress is doing). There are and will always be people who are supportive of the status quo because they're not necessarily affected by the many of the issues affecting others.

And there are two other things to consider:
First, there are people who, in their honest belief, think that the President, because he was elected by the people and is in a better position to know what's happening, is always correct in his actions, regardless of what others think or say.
Second, many people assume that "the other side" (the liberals, or the conservatives, or this religous or that business group are simply out to get the President, cause trouble, etc., and thus vote to show their support.

The only dumb A S S E S that approve of the SOB is haliburton, Blackwater, carlyle...

Euthanize the 12%. They have demonstrated no useful utility to the human race.

The 12% who strongly approve are weapons and oil profiteers.

The sheer amount of acting exactly like they are claiming those 12% act is astounding!

Truly a situation of the pot calling the kettle black if you are labeling someone as stupid or ignorant or even Al Qaeda sympathizers based on an approval rating poll.

Get a grip.

Bush will leave office with a single digit approval rating. Those left who approve have their heads permanently buried in their posteriors. Bush has benefitted the VERY few, and he is proud of it. Too bad Nancy Pelosi has proven to be such a bust...or Bush would justly, be in front of a microphone, right now, sweating, trying to lie his way out of impeachment.

I'm sure you could scrape together 12% of any audiance who might not think Hitler was all that bad also. It's not too hard to find that 12% of any group are out of touch, uneducated, or have a vested interest. Hitting a 69% disapproval rating, now that's impressive.

The 12% are oil people

There are some extremely "intelligent" people who know exactly what Bush is doing, why he's doing it - and are 100% on board. Bush is pushing through the 100% right wing ideologue's wish list, and doing a darn fine job of it too. These people aren't really very concerned with the impact of their agenda (otherwise history and pragmatism would have already dissuaded them from such foolish actions). They are only concerned with their ideals. If things don't go so well, then they will say that it's because they didn't get EVERYTHING they wanted (like drilling for oil in Alaska) - regardless if facts actually support that claim.

How can somebody supposedly as smart as David Addington be running us into the ground so vigorously with these terrible ideas? Maybe he watched too many cowboy movies as a kid - and believed them.

Poor Barbara and George Sr. They must be crushed that their son has in eight years destroyed what took the Bush's 70 years to build. But, then again, it took him only eight years to destroy what took the forefathers 200 years to build. At least he's young enough to live and witness for many years the harm he's caused.

Bush is an idiot and he knows it.

Remember, even with 12% or 28% and nearly 1/2 of each side of congress, and with the master of adminsitattion and imperialism Cheney, Bush will do a lot of mischief between now an January.

Executive orders
Clemency (Scooter Libby and others)
Editing Scientific reports.
Delay or Deniel of investigations in Justice Dept.
(War with Iran? -see S. Hersch)

We live a system of terms not a parlementary system of no confidence.
Bush / Cheney aren't done with gut feelings and "we know better" government

The 12% must be some truly stupid people
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remember george carlin's comment about stupid people? they're stupid people.

I am one of those 12% who really does not want to see a person of color in the White House. I now love the New Yorker Magazine.

A consitutional amendment: Every taxpayer dollar that Congress and the President vote to spend overseas should be directly tied to their personal financial statement (net worth). For example, if GWB wants to give the Saudis 10 bln in foreign aid, the first 1 percent comes directly out of his own personal assets - and for each member of Congress the same. And those funds come FIRST before a single dime comes from the American taxpayer. It's too easy for these destroyers of America to spend other people's money without risk. If something isn't done, 10 years, or 5 years from now, I would probably be arrested by the FBI for making such a suggestion.

what took you all so long to see that this guy is dumber than a rock.

so psssst,you are happy with this ,and you will continue to have a great nation go down the tube.how stupid you and GWB look now.

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Actually, no one that voted for Bush should be complaining. Especially the ones that voted for him in 2004 when he already had 4 years fo failures. Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Shame on the American public.

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I guess it was this 12% that so spooked the Democrats that they gutted the constitution and passed the vile FISA bill.

Personally, I think the 12% are psychos. How someone could actually ''strongly approve''of Bush is certainly a mystery to me and to a couple of million other Americans

Are you sure that it isn't a typo and it is actually 12 Americans that strongly approve of Bush, rather than 12% of Americans?
Posted by: | July 15, 2008 2:21 PM

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Looks like the 12% that strongly approve of Bush are probably dumber than he is. If that's possible...

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walker1 above says "vote republican, get communism" 1) was voting actually what caused us to get this so-called president? probably most fradulent elections ever in this country and we still haven't done anything about it 2) we didn't get communism, we got corporate-fascism 3) if he wasn't actually elected, do we actually have to impeach him?

I think that the images of President Bush are something created by the media--"cultural."

It is high time for the media to report fairly without injecting their own biases.

What he is doing is not popular but correct and right thing to do at this time of war.

lmfao

Actually there are people who just, well, really aren't that educated. They may be in all otherwise quite smart, they're just not educated, from a wide variety of news sources. They have a fundamental life view that has been exploited by GWB and his administration and for whatever reason they continue to cling to the illusion. My father-in-law, an otherwise extremely horse-smart guy, is one of them. But he's retired and Fox is his news source and that's it. (shrug) Not much you can do about it.

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Actually, no one that voted for Bush should be complaining. Especially the ones that voted for him in 2004 when he already had 4 years fo failures. Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Shame on the American public.

Posted by: MG | July 15, 2008 7:49 PM

everyone in my neigborhood voted for bozo but my wife and myself...now I can't find a neighbor who will admit it

Actually, no one that voted for Bush should be complaining. Especially the ones that voted for him in 2004 when he already had 4 years fo failures. Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Shame on the American public.

Posted by: MG | July 15, 2008 7:49 PM

after reading about fannie mae and freddie mac...its very hard to decide which party is the most corrupt.....it looks like a tie....

We 12 "percenters" and 16 "percenters" should pull our money together to send the other 88% to Canada and Mexico. President Bush is the Leader of the Free World and has graduated from two of the finest Ivy League Institutions. How many of you can say the same about yourself?

Well, like they say, at least 1/4 of Americans are mentally challenged.

I'd take 28% as an excellent calculation.

I find it hard to believe that 28% still approve of him. What's to approve of?

its the CEO's ,Banks,Oil Comapanies,silver spooners,rich ,and the military complex