Find The Boots

Captain's Quarters has a great summary of a recent Rasmussen poll. You'll probably have to read it twice to fully comprehend it -- it's pretty hard to believe.

Democrats in America are evenly divided on the question of whether George W. Bush knew about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in advance. Thirty-five percent (35%) of Democrats believe he did know, 39% say he did not know, and 26% are not sure.

Republicans reject that view and, by a 7-to-1 margin, say the President did not know in advance about the attacks. Among those not affiliated with either major party, 18% believe the President knew and 57% take the opposite view.

This is how far things have broken down. The DemCong are so far gone in their hatred of Bush that 61% of them either think Bush knew or aren't sure.

I was no fan of Bill Clinton. Far from it. I was willing to believe the story floating around that the bombing of the aspirin factory in Sudan was to divert attention from Monica. But there's no way you could have convinced me that he knew about the Oklahoma City bombing in advance, even though that turned out to be a good thing for him. And that would have been a fairly easy conspiracy to pull off -- a very small group of people would have been involved.

And as much I as disliked Bill Clinton, you've got to admit he was perhaps the smoothest and slickest operator to ever grace the White House. But even Slick Willy couldn't even keep a little extra curricular activity with an intern quiet. Let's face it, the circle of people that knew what was going on there was pretty small. So the Democrats expect me to believe that Bush, the same guy that can't handle something as simple as firing a few lawyers without Congressional hearings, pulled off the most spectacular inside job in history? That he deftly manipulated the media, military, and intelligence communities and pulled off 9/11 with special operators, but couldn't plant some fake WMDs for us to find when he invaded Iraq?

Being a DemCong means that you can believe that Bush is simultaneously the most stupid president in history and that he pulled off a master plan that would be the envy of any James Bond villain.