FOX NEWS: 69% of Americans Oppose Dubai Port Deal Even After Learning "The Facts." Huge Damage to GOP

Karl Rove announed that National Security will be the big issue of 2006 and events are proving him correct, only not in the way he expected:
As a direct result of the Dubai Port deal, most Americans now view Democrats as having the edge on National Security related issues. According to Fox News; "by wide margins voters now think it would be better for the country if Democrats win control of Congress in this year’s midterm election." 69% of Americans oppose the port deal even after learning of the "details." The Presidents numbers have droped like a stone to 39%...and still dropping. Baring an unforeseen development, the Dubai port issue could be shaping up as the biggest political debacle in memory for the GOP.

The President's embarrassing threat of a veto (his only veto ever threatened) was a monumental miscalculation bordering on the bizarre. That the President would be so emphatic and publicly indignant about this one particular issue, when there are so many more important issues during these critical times to be threatening a veto on, only served to highlight the enormity of the misjudgment.

To ad insult to injury and digging themselves a deeper hole, the President and some of his supporters then engaged in Al Sharpton-like, last-refuge-of-a-scoundrel behavior by portraying the opponents of the deal as "intolerant" or even "racists" towards Arabs, and "Islamaphobic." This was the last straw.

The Neocon has supported the President through thick and thin. If the President wishes to commit political suicide on his own, well fine. The problem is that he is taking the rest of the movement over the cliff with him on an issue that is not worth even a tiny fraction of the lost political capital already suffered. The Neocon urges fellow Republicans to jump ship on this issue and hope for the best. If the President wishes to go down with the ship, hopefully most Republicans will at least have a life raft to survive this mess.