Because He’s Unpopular, Bush Is Capable Of Anything!
There’s something known as political capital.
If you have an electoral mandate as a President, where sixty percent of the voters cast their ballots for you, then you can insist on pressing your agenda in the legislature, and those lesser officials must bend to your will.
So says conventional wisdom.
Bush never had such a mandate, though he acted as if he had.
Now, he’s so unpopular, with poll ratings about as low as Lyndon Johnson suffered through, that you would think Bush is a not just a lame duck, but a dead one, politically.
Don’t believe it.
W might take dramatic preemptive military action against Iran precisely BECAUSE he’s so unpopular. After all, what does he have to lose if he de-fangs an imminently nuclear adversary?
Leaving office with his tail between his legs won’t do his political party any good, and it will almost certainly embolden the Democrats, virtually assuring them a victory in 2008.
But becoming the equivalent of a “Give ‘Em Hell Harry” Truman as he departs from center stage might earn him some accolades, if not before today’s audiences, before tomorrow’s.
Look for Bush to cash in his negatives and do something seemingly improbable, even if it means significantly expanding the theater of war in the Middle East.
Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of Customersatisfaction.com, is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone® and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service, and the audio program, “The Law of Large Numbers: How To Make Success Inevitable,” published by Nightingale-Conant. A Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School, a Loyola lawyer, and an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations in the United States and abroad. Headquartered in Glendale, California, he can be reached at (818) 243-7338 or at: gary@customersatisfaction.com.
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