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Who is actually stupid enough to vote for George W. Bush as president? (Original Post) Dpm12 Feb 2013 OP
Did I miss something here? Hugabear Feb 2013 #1
lol no Dpm12 Feb 2013 #6
Tweety did (at least once). Kip Humphrey Feb 2013 #2
My final Republican vote ever... derby378 Feb 2013 #3
If memory serves - a hell of a lot of US citizens did el_bryanto Feb 2013 #4
Maybe the media can get Americans to vote for the next President by asking: "Who would you.. Tikki Feb 2013 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #13
Long coma, bro. nt Dreamer Tatum Feb 2013 #5
Well, I am a blonde, but I am not dumb. RebelOne Feb 2013 #7
Post removed Post removed Feb 2013 #8
The Supremes on the right Blue4Texas Feb 2013 #10
Well... pizzadave Feb 2013 #11
50 million in the 2000 election. And 62 million in the 2004 election. OceanEcosystem Feb 2013 #12
I didn't vote for him, but in 2000, I was politically illiterate enough to find him likeable. phleshdef Feb 2013 #14
Chris Matthews for one. srican69 Feb 2013 #15
Shouldn't that be was? HangOnKids Feb 2013 #16
I have a friend who has a T-shirt that says "George Bush, Kickin it Old School" . . . HughBeaumont Feb 2013 #17

Dpm12

(512 posts)
6. lol no
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 02:05 PM
Feb 2013

I was just curious as to why people voted for him in the first place. Jeb is considering running. I don't know why though. No one wants another "President Bush"

derby378

(30,252 posts)
3. My final Republican vote ever...
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 02:04 PM
Feb 2013

...was in the 2000 GOP primary, when I voted for McCain instead of Bush. Not that it did a lot of good, but there you go.

Tikki

(14,549 posts)
9. Maybe the media can get Americans to vote for the next President by asking: "Who would you..
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 02:09 PM
Feb 2013

most like to shoot a gun with while drinkin' beers?"



Tikki

Response to el_bryanto (Reply #4)

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
7. Well, I am a blonde, but I am not dumb.
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 02:06 PM
Feb 2013

I didn't vote for him. I voted for Gore, Kerry and then Obama. I am a diehard Democrat.

Response to RebelOne (Reply #7)

 

phleshdef

(11,936 posts)
14. I didn't vote for him, but in 2000, I was politically illiterate enough to find him likeable.
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 02:36 PM
Feb 2013

I was like 20 years old. I was out of state and not registered to vote in the state where I went to college. So I didn't vote that time. I watched the debates a little and thought he and Gore were a lot alike. I thought either one would've made a decent President, at the time. But I was leaning towards Bush because I thought we needed a reset from the Clinton sex scandal and thus Gore, being VP, had too many ties to the whole thing by association (at least that was my thinking at the time, not my thinking now, at all, of course).

I was painfully wrong about all of the above and would gladly go back in time and punch myself in the nuts for being so willfully uninformed and unperceptive.

By the time 2004 rolled around, I had become a lot more politically aware, I had already figured out that Iraq was a scam and thus, I cast my first Presidential vote for John Kerry. I'll give George Bush a lot of credit for one thing. He and his administration turned me into a Democrat.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
17. I have a friend who has a T-shirt that says "George Bush, Kickin it Old School" . . .
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 03:30 PM
Feb 2013

. . . with him on a set of turntables.

Really.

When he lived in the U.S., I asked him if he had a fireplace and told him to throw that shirt in it.

He frequently argued with me that Saddam DID have WMDs.

He's also a creationist.

In other words, he refutes facts to believe stories.

This was a guy who scored high marks in high school and on national chemistry exams.

I don't know when he got ensnared in the teagagger pond of manure, but I'm guessing it also has to do with the fact that he's a "Born Again"er.

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