Bush supporters have damaged my last raw nerve.

[democrank]

How on earth can Bush have any supporters left? Will his hangers-on never let go? What will it take, renting Nebraska to Saudi Arabia? Government mandated chip implants? Deal between General Motors and Big Brother for compulsory dash board video cameras?

There is almost no country Bush hasn`t sullied, no institution Bush hasn`t corrupted, no law Bush hasn`t ignored, yet none of his Moral People think it`s time to yell "FIRE" and call for water hoses?

This is like buying a ticket to The Smithsonian but discovering, once inside, that you`re actually trapped in a hellish theme park. Old gent on tv with birdshot in his face. Bunch of guys in hoods with wires hooked up to their genitals. Great, brick factories draped in cobwebs and plywood sheets. Thousands of poor people floating by trying to hold their HELP ME signs up out of the water. Twenty-somethings with blown-off legs in wheelchairs. Like we`re all supposed to just buy a Powerball ticket and forget we saw what we saw?

Don`t know what it will take for these people to be run out of Washington, but we had better figure it out while there`s still a hint of a country left.

[William769]

1. Sad to say, alot of deprogramming.

[Maccagirl]

2. To quote the all-knowing Mary Matalin

"they live in a parallel universe". What excuse other than complete insanity could they offer up for their religious devotion of the man?

[donco6]

3. I've been wondering that since the first time I saw asswipe . . .

giving a speech. "How could any thinking person support this idiot?" I thought.

And now, six long years later, I'm even more confused. My own sister thinks he walks on water. "After watching those debates?" I asked. She just rolls her eyes and mutters something about him not being a good speaker, but that doesn't mean anything.

(going to be sick now)

[unblock]

7. these are the same people who loved reagan as the "great communicator"

all banana republican arguments are arguments of convenience. since being a good communicator was a good argument when reagan was their boy, being a good communicator was oh so important. now that that argument doesn't work, being a good communicator is not important.

similarly, when "deficits are bad" suited them when running against carter and when clinton became president, deficits were all-important. ever since clinton turned it into a surplus, and then shrub turned it back into record deficits, suddenly they don't think deficits matter anymore.

9/11 changed everything. but of course, a truck bomb attack on the world trade center that killed people but didn't bring the building down eight years earlier when clinton was president didn't change a damn thing.

criticizing the president when troops are in somalia or yugoslavia, that's your patriotic duty, but criticizing the president when troops are in iraq is something only a traitor would do. when the party of the president suits their argument, of course.

and of course, when the president lies, impeachment is a solemn duty, except when the president is republican.

[midnight]

21. My thoughts exactly.

I thought no one would vote for him. I believe Gore won,so I think most folks saw what you and I saw-no family values.

[f-bush]

4. Good post

there are an awful lot of brain dead people walking around this country. Also there are an awful lot of people who are scared shitless, because they know bush and his policies have put them one or two paychecks away from being homeless and they're scared to death to rock the boat or displease the powers that be!

[htuttle]

5. So, what lottery numbers did you pick this week?

This paragraph is a gem, btw:

This is like buying a ticket to The Smithsonian but discovering, once inside, that you`re actually trapped in a hellish theme park. Old gent on tv with birdshot in his face. Bunch of guys in hoods with wires hooked up to their genitals. Great, brick factories draped in cobwebs and plywood sheets. Thousands of poor people floating by trying to hold their HELP ME signs up out of the water. Twenty-somethings with blown-off legs in wheelchairs. Like we`re all supposed to just buy a Powerball ticket and forget we saw what we saw?

I hope that somewhere out there, there are aspiring Hunter S Thompsons and William S Burroughses making notes about all this, so we can all fully appreciate the rank insanity of it all years from now when it's all over (being optimistic here...).

[unblock]

8. 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. we're ALL lost.

[lostnfound]

18. That's right! Hunter would have been proud of that paragraph

if he had written it, don't you think?

[catmother]

6. i'm still shaking my head since the 2000 election. of course,

we all know that gore won, SCOTUS put bush in office. but then, 2004 -- just alone watching this asshole during the debates, how could any person of sane mind vote for him. do they really believe that he kept us safe? and now with this UAE deal i'm beginning to think that bush is a terrorist or the anti-christ. :eyes:

[unblock]

9. i still think shrub lost BIG in 2004

i can't believe he managed better than 45% of the bush-kerry vote. i think he lost in what an honest press would call a landslide.

i think they're got the vote-rigging down. diebold is just one element of it. felon lists, intimidation, early closing, insufficient ballots, long lines, flawed ballot designs, banana republican secretaries of state, wacky recount rules, etc., they KNOW what they're doing.

and the sad thing is that anyone who participates in this has to believe that they are on the LOSING side of popular opinion to do so. and this after out spending opponents 2-1 and controlling the media.

[Vektor]

15. Amen - so true...

How long is it going to be allowed to go on, is my question!

[proud patriot]

10. bush supporters support selling ports to countries tied to 9/11

torture
warrant less spying on Americans
taking food out of babies mouths
closing of after-school programs
drilling in pristine wilderness
death of Americans for Iraqi "freedom"
stealing the Treasury for incompetent crony contracts
the undermining of the United States Constitution
The indefinite incarceration of American Citizens w/o due process

Honestly I'm done trying to get though to them
bush supporters disgust me . Humble is a word
none of them understand .

[catmother]

11. i had my teeth cleaned today. i was talking to the hygienist

who says she's not really "political", but she said she can't stand to listen to bush or to look at him and she thinks they we are going to find out that there's something mentally wrong with him. :puke:

[mtnester]

12. Twilight Zone, Episode 73, November 1961 "It's a Good Life" with Bill Mumy

and Cloris Leachman

his followers are like that family.

"Wish it into the cornfield Anthony"

[donco6]

13. Ha! Good analogy.

Yes, we mustn't get on Anthony's bad side.

[Vektor]

14. K&R - That's my question too...

How can they still convince themselves he's doing a good job? HOW?

It truly boggles the mind.

[unblock]

16. it's all based on loyalty and faith, not logic

he's the pope of the church of the holy banana republican.
he's infallible as a matter of faith.

to even think otherwise is to risk excommunication from the church you, your family, your community, and so on have invested all that faith in.

it's like asking someone to give up their belief in god. they simply won't respond to evidence because in their worldview, evidence has no meaning. it's all about faith and loyalty.

[mwb970]

19. It's a cult.

Presenting evidence that they are wrong only strengthens their beliefs. It's no use trying to use logic to analyze this behavior, as it is pure irrational emotion at work.

A second factor is that those supporters who are waking up can't stand the idea that the rest of us (the hated "liberals") have been right about everything all along. So down with the ship they go. And they take us down with them!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. It's like the cult of Kim Jong-Il in North Korea

If you've ever seen documentaries about North Korea, you'll have seen interviews with NK citizens getting all glassy-eyed at the mention of their Dear Leader, even though they have to know and been affected by the lack of food.

The "hidden camera" documentaries show black markets where donated food is sold and people grubbing around in the mud for handfuls of rice that have fallen out of the sacks, and yet people being interviewed talk about Kim Jong-Il in worshipful terms.

Bush-worship IS a cult, reinforced by making cultists distrust alternative points of view. When righties denounce a thoroughly establishment rag like the New York Times or an increasingly right-leaning channel as CNN as "too liberal," they're warning cultists off even these mildly dissenting sources of information.

It's especially acute among fundamentalists, who have devised a complete total information environment for their followers, one which includes distrust of and hatred for everyone who isn't a fundamentalist, including liberal Christians.

[Olney Blue]

17. For my fundamentalist sister, there is only one issue that matters-

she is anti-abortion, and Bush is her hero.

She is highly-educated with a master's degree in English- she somehow overlooks
the inability of * to formulate an intelligent sentence, while I cringe.

I don't see how she and I can be from the same gene pool.

:shrug:

Your post is wonderful. Gave it a kick!

[OneTwentyoNine]

20. Guns,GOD,Corporate and NO brains.....

Thats thier base right there in a nutshell. Most Bush voters are one issue voters whether it be guns or God. Hell,most don't know SHIT about whats going on in this country as long as they can keep their warm gun and protest at abortion clinics.