Thread: 2006 Poll Showed Most Democrats Wanted Bush to Fail

Rush Limbaugh took a lot of heat for saying he wants President Obama to fail -- but a lot of Democrats felt the same way about former President George W. Bush during his second term.

An August 2006 poll conducted by FOX News/Opinion Dynamics showed 51 percent of Democrats did not want Bush to succeed. Thirty-four percent of independents also did not want Bush to succeed.

By comparison, 90 percent of Republicans said at the time that they wanted Bush to succeed, and 40 percent of Democrats said the same.

Conservative radio talk show host Limbaugh says he doesn't want the economy to fail -- just Obama's policies. But his comments last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference drew sharp criticism from the White House.

After CPAC, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told CBS' "Face the Nation" that Limbaugh's stance was the "wrong philosophy for America."

Flashback: 2006 Poll Showed Most Democrats Wanted Bush to Fail - First 100 Days of Presidency - Politics FOXNews.com

There isn't anything wrong with wanting something to fail if you disagree with it.

This semantics garbage bothers me alot. Complete non-issue.

If a congressman votes against a bill, he surely wants the bill to fail.

If the president vetos a bill, he wants it to fail (he actually made it fail!).

That said, don't expect this story to get much airtime. It doesn't prop up Obama, so the only place you'll hear about it is Talk Radio, FNC, and some blogs.