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"Bush will keep us safer" seems to be a very, very common answer provided by his supporters, yet it should be rather obvious that the opposite is true.
9/11 happened on his watch, in part because of his administration's complete incompetence and narrow-minded focus on Hussein. An administration that was actually concerned about terrorism might have put the pieces together in time to avoid it.
Bush supporters "forget" this and fixate on him standing on a pile of rubble. Or they make ludicrous comments like, "He just seems like a guy I could invite over for Sunday lunch" as a local woman said on the news this week while waiting in a six-hour line for Bush tickets.
We're not electing a dinner guest. We're electing the leader of our country.
Iraq wasn't a terrorist center before the invasion, but it certainly is now. Bush's invasion has increased anti-American sentiment around the world, yet his supporters blindly say that it makes us safer. When prompted for an explanation, we get the blank stare you mentioned. Deer in the headlights.
Which, in a way, is appropriate. I guess that Bush really does represent those people. He has that look often.
And, you're right - not all of the Bush supporters are "drooling morons" (I love that, as it is a very appropriate description for many of them). Seemingly intelligent people seem to turn off their brains and parrot whatever the administration or the TV tells them.
I get particularly frustrated with the people who repeat the Republican talking points verbatim. Maybe they get memos....
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