Bush's September 10 Approval Ratings

Bush's September 10 Approval Ratings
By Robert Tracinski

The conventional wisdom on President Bush's low job approval ratings is that they are his punishment for lack of progress in Iraq.

I don't agree. The actual evidence indicates that Bush is not losing popularity because we're losing the war. He's losing popularity because we're not losing the war. He is unpopular precisely because Americans no longer fear that we are going to be forced into retreat from Iraq, or that terrorists are going to start blowing themselves up on the streets of our cities. Americans now feel complacent enough to focus on other issues--the issues they thought were most important on September 10, 2001.

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The author of this piece has got it all wrong. The fall in Bush's popularity has little or nothing to do with Iraq or the WOT and much to do with the border issue, spying on Americans, and a stubborn refusal to see he is alienating the very people he and his Political Party need to stay in power.

The author of the piece warns of complacency in regards to the Iraq War and domestic security, while the POTUS refuses to lock the border down and deport 11 to 30 million illegal invaders. In my view we can bring the troops home right now and put them on the the Mexican border, that's where the real war to save this nation is being fought. Iraq was never a threat to the US and while Saddam needed taken down, that's been accomplished. We have other fish to fry on the Mexican border and Mexico should be the next fish on the grill.