Wow, wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that all the wise D.C. pundits were saying that President Bush need only mention terrorism and patriotic voters would flock to the GOP? Now this:
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says if Republican candidates want to succeed on Election Day, they should turn their focus away from the Iraq war.
"The challenge is to get Americans to focus on pocketbook issues, and not on the Iraq and terror issue," Frist said in an interview with the Concord Monitor on Tuesday.
I guess Iraq isn’t going so well. But things aren’t all bad. The chaos apparently hasn’t damped Frist’s sense of humor:
Frist suggested that Republicans remind voters of subjects like tax cuts and lower gas prices, the result, he said, of the energy bill passed by Congress last year.
What? GOP candidates should be running on the energy bill? Three months ago you couldn’t find a Republican talking up the energy bill if you had a search warrant. I know many Americans have a short memories, but they aren’t that short. The specter of $3.00/gallon gas lies just over the horizon. What candidate is foolish enough to conjure up those recent images? Would-be presidential candidate Bill First, apparently.