Could Bush have been toppled?

Totally crazy.

Also, ignoring all the other reasons, Bush was and continues to be pretty popular with the military.
 
To be honest, Jeff Davis and Saint Robert, Patron of the South, are to blame for that. Their plan for the invasion of the North cost the Confederacy thousands of good soldiers at literally no gain, and in the first case of invasion, destroyed their chances of aid from Europe. Then again, the Emancipation Proclamation might have caused enough opposition in the North to Lincoln's policies for Lincoln to lose the election of 1864, assuming that a more competant Southern general or perhaps Lee dispatching a few divisions to Georgia could have kept Sherman from taking Atlanta.

As for the OP, no way in hell. First off, the Army is loyal to the government, and no American forces since the half-hearted attempt at an anti-Roosevelt coup in the 1930s have seriously contemplated being kingmakers. Plus, by the time the American people got seriously pissed enough to even remotely contemplate such an event, Bush had only a few months left anyway.

Finally, given that Bush managed to maintain pretty high approval ratings from 9/11 to well into his second term, I don't see the American people as hating him enough to overthrow him in any event. Katrina may have hurt his approval ratings badly, but let's be honest here: the only note the average American took of it was a spike in gas prices and the news services covering the hurricane damage for a long time.

Well, Lee fighting the Union war with Confederate resources was definitely the major reason the South failed that war, point taken. There is a point at which repeatedly attacking with inferior numbers the side with the bigger numbers bites one in the ass. Lee went well past that point......

This OP should be in the ASB forum IMHO.
 
Even the most awfully hated president wouldn't be afraid of the mob. But he would be afraid of his unpopularity leading Congress to impeach him, and resign under thread of impeachment.

Of course, Bush was nowhere near that stage.
 
Was there ever a time between 2000 - 2008, other than the 2004 election, that the Bush administration could've been "overthrown" by a popular uprising like the ones occuring in the middle east now?

No No No!

You have little understanding of American politics and even less about the US political system, do you? Even the civil unrest fanned by the anti-Vietnam War movement didn't overthrow LBJ; nor the crash of '29 bring about a popular uprising or the overthrow of Hoover (outside of the ballot box).
 

Glen

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Was there ever a time between 2000 - 2008, other than the 2004 election, that the Bush administration could've been "overthrown" by a popular uprising like the ones occuring in the middle east now?

No. Impeached, possibly, but not overthrown like that - we just don't work that way in the US - mostly because we don't have to. If Bush had been in office for 30 years, then it might be different...
 
I think Bush could have been taken out of power, in a democratic American way...there were two times. Once during the 2004 Election and during the possible Impeachment before he left office. If Bush was taken out then, perhaps things might be different.

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The top two candidates getting money from members of the military were Ron Paul and Barack Obama...

Which, of course, only proves the point everyone's making -- people who want to bring down a regime in this country (or any other nation with a stable democratic tradition), plot to win an election, not stage a coup.
 
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