AH Challenge: Make Bush's approval rating go below 5%

So make Bush's approval rating go below 5% with a POD of no earlier of when he was elected president. Now this would require most of the conservatives to really hate him as well. What can he do?

A good POD can be after the 9/11 attacks. Just make him stay fundamentally in character.
 
I can do it right now He orders the military to arrest and summarily execute all liberals for collusion, or treason or some such including Obama when the race riots start he orders the rioters executed to the man, oh and then he nukes some one admittedly if that isn't in character it may get his approval below congress's current approval
 

JohnJacques

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I'm assuming that last bit was a snipe against Congress.

And guess what? Its dissatisfaction with how things are, not who's running things. Most people can't identify Pelosi or tell you which party is in power in Congress.

Congress had bad ratings in 1992- and no Republicans lost a seat. Guess who the Republicans are in 2008?
 
I'm assuming that last bit was a snipe against Congress.

And guess what? Its dissatisfaction with how things are, not who's running things. Most people can't identify Pelosi or tell you which party is in power in Congress.

Congress had bad ratings in 1992- and no Republicans lost a seat. Guess who the Republicans are in 2008?
*shrugs* I can but then again I'm not exactly fond of either party right now so heh who cares but you got to admit for all the bitching you here about Bush its somewhat surprising
 

JohnJacques

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Congress usually gets rated below a President. And its usually an indictment of the President more than the Congress. (Dems had their hopes up over the 90s..... but that was really Clinton's approval rating, not Gingrich's)
 
He's caught with a dead girl or live boy... No, then at least 40% of Republicans, mostly libertarians and neo-cons, as well as those fundies who will refuse to believe it, will still support him.

He declares in his State of the Union his undying support for Satan...

No, he'd still have a few...

Oh, I've figured it out: he declares that he's transgendered, and intends to get a sex change. Everyone still hates transgendered people! Even Democrats and Gays!

Hurray!
 
He's caught with a dead girl or live boy... No, then at least 40% of Republicans, mostly libertarians and neo-cons, as well as those fundies who will refuse to believe it, will still support him.

He declares in his State of the Union his undying support for Satan...

No, he'd still have a few...

Oh, I've figured it out: he declares that he's transgendered, and intends to get a sex change. Everyone still hates transgendered people! Even Democrats and Gays!

Hurray!
So, are we just throwing out the initial posts' request that Bush remain "fundamentally in character"? I mean, I don't think there's any evidence that President Bush is a closet Satanist necrophiliac with gender identity disorder, though maybe he's just been good at covering it up...

Considering how much Bush is tied with the war, you might have the war go much worse. Also, have the Democrats fail to retake Congress, since that took attention off of Bush's failings and onto Congress' failings, and the two could no longer be associated... 5% is really, really, really low though...
 
So make Bush's approval rating go below 5% with a POD of no earlier of when he was elected president. Now this would require most of the conservatives to really hate him as well. What can he do?

A good POD can be after the 9/11 attacks. Just make him stay fundamentally in character.

I don't think it's possible with Bush remaining fundamentally in character. He would have to do something to piss off those 20-25% of people that seem to support him no matter what.

He would have to pledge to raise taxes while raping a girl scout for an audience of applauding Muslim extemists on national television to get to 5%. And I'm not sure even that would do it.
 
Are you kidding? we're talking about the States here. This

He would have to pledge to raise taxes while raping a girl scout for an audience of applauding Muslim extemists on national television to get to 5%. And I'm not sure even that would do it.

on its own should do it. ;)
 

ninebucks

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The Pollsters decide to ask their 'approval rating' question in Spanish. The majority of non-hispanophones who pick up their phone to hear the question 'do you approve of George W Bush?' just make an annoyed negative grunt and hang up, (the pollsters then extrapolate this to mean 'no, I do not approve of George W Bush). A recent comment by Bush referring to the Spanish language as being 'for pussies', irritates the remaining hispanophones who can be arsed to answer the pollsters into saying they disapprove of the president.

The remaining five percent are illegal immigrants who are afraid of voicing discontent with the president unless it means they may be deported.
 
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