Just Amazing

Thanks to Basie
If there was ever any doubt about the mental state of the Republicans there isn't now.
WHICH GEORGE W. WOULD AMERICANS ELECT?

Chestertown, Md (February 16, 2005) – If George Washington returned from the dead and attempted to recapture the presidency of the United States, he would beat incumbent President George W. Bush by nearly 20 percentage points, 55%-36%, according to a new national poll conducted for Washington College by the public affairs research firm of Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas, Inc. Asked to choose between George Washington and George W. Bush, Republicans supported Bush by a margin of more than 2 to 1, while Democrats and independents overwhelmingly favored Washington.

It's no real surprise that the Republicans owe their success to ignorance.

However, the survey -- commissioned to honor the first president’s birthday on February 22 and the inauguration of a major new history book prize co-sponsored by Washington College -- found that by some measures, Washington’s status as a national icon is slipping. Only 46% of the 800 adult Americans surveyed could identify him as the general who led the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War. When asked who they thought was America’s greatest president, only 6% named George Washington, ranking him seventh, behind Abraham Lincoln (20%), Ronald Reagan (15%), Franklin D. Roosevelt (12%), John F. Kennedy (11%), Bill Clinton (10%), and George W. Bush (8%).

The two George W's may have had more in common than we might think. While George W. Bush is a popular front man for Dick Cheney and neocons George Washington may have been little more than a popular front man for Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists.