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Jewish World Review
Nov. 8, 2006
/ 17 Mar-Cheshvan, 5766
A glance at women scorned
By
Joe Scarborough
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Yesterday, the President and First Lady cast their votes in Crawford, Texas. Laura Bush's smile was unusually tight, fixed. The look of a woman scorned.
Mary Matalin had that same frozen smile on her face on the morning before her boss, George Bush Sr., got swept out of office in 1992, as did Rosalyn Carter the day before her husband got crushed by the Reagan Revolution in 1980.
Two years ago, exit polling showed George Bush going down to defeat. On election day, he told his daughters they needed to fake a smile while walking past reporters before they entered the White House to brace for defeat. The world could not read the election results on their faces. Once inside, the twins broke down in tears.
They were all women scorned. You could read it in their faces. They knew their man was about to lose.
Of course, the Bush women had the last laugh in 2004, but they won't be so lucky tonight. George Bush has become the issue in the 2006 campaign, just as Bill Clinton was when I first got elected to Congress in 1994. Voter anger toward Mr. Clinton was go great that by the end of the campaign all voters wanted to hear was how I would stop Bill Clinton.
Unfortunately for Bush Republicans, Bill Clinton's approval ratings were 12 points higher in my first election than Bush's today.
Monday, the world got a peek at just how much of a drag George Bush has become for the GOP.
The president was in my hometown of Pensacola, Fla., where he is always treated like a rock star. But when the White House announced Mr. Bush was coming to Northwest Florida to help Charlie Crist's gubernatorial campaign, the Crist camp left the White House hanging in the wind. In the end, it all came down to numbers. Standing next to the President of the United States would hurt the GOP candidate more than staying away.
It was a stinging rebuke, but one that Florida Senate candidate Katherine Harris also felt in Pensacola. Republican operatives knew that Harris would probably take the opposite tact of Charlie Crist by trying to elbow her way onto the stage. One last moment in the spotlight with the president. One last trip down memory lane to a more simple time when the man she helped put in the Oval Office didn't treat her like a leper.
But it was not to be.
Harris demanded to be on stage with the president but the White House refused. When she got angry, GOP officials told her that if she didn't like it, she could stay away. Please. But Harris showed up anyway, gave a speech and was rushed backstage, safely quarantined behind a curtain while the President strode on stage to inspire 10,000 adoring fans.
It was the final insult for a woman who had sacrificed her political career for this man who was now ashamed to be seen on the same stage with her. So much for Bush loyalty.
I am told that Katherine Harris milled around for a while after the president's motorcade zoomed away from the Pensacola Civic Center. But friends could read it on her face. She was a woman scorned.
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