Did you ever support Bush? If so, when and why?

[Rocknrule]

To be honest, the only day of my life I ever supported that freak was September 12, 2001. That's right, when I came home on 9/11, the first thing I said to my dad was "Well, NOW are you sorry you voted for him?" But after the POTUS address to the nation that night and the whole "rally around the flag/president" thing the next day, I was sucked in. I admit it. But it didn't take long for me to come to my senses again and realize that Bush is the LAST man we want in office in a time of national crisis. He proves that to me every day now.

[AlCzervik]

1. oh hell no!! I lived in Texas when he was Governor and i didn't support

him then.

[Vincardog]

3. Neither you nor me chimpsrsmarter

[txindy]

34. Ditto.

And I can't believe I just used that word.

But, yeah, he's been a boil on the backside of the public since he announced for governor.

[AlCzervik]

38. yup and Molly Ivins and Paul Begala gave us a blueprint for what he'd

do if he was "elected" and most of it has come true. We were warned.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Have to admit that even on that sad, fateful day, it made me ill to

look at or listen to him. Total lifetime failure - at everything - why, oh why, does ANYONE expect ANYTHING of value from him? It just does not work like that.

[Bluzmann57]

4. Like you, one day only

And it was true patriotism which drove us all those awful days after 9/11. Nobody wanted this once great land to be attacked and nearly everybody in this country rallied behind the president. But it didn't take long to see the true colors of this bastard.

[Arkansas Granny]

19. I tried to support him then, but I just kept thinking how much I

missed Bill.

[Skittles]

22. I beg to differ

are you saying those of us who were never fooled by that assole did not exhibit true patriotism?? I was absolutely disgusted by his 90% rating - it let me know people could not see how culpable this administration was in not preventing the attacks - that the American people were fooled and that bush inc would take this ridiculous support to wreak havoc on the world

[Bluzmann57]

42. No I am not saying that you who were never fooled

did not exhibit true patriotism. But let's face it, nobody wanted America to get attacked. No one. Except maybe some RW extremists and a few Communists. NOT THAT YOU ARE EITHER! Just clarifying, since so many of my words get twisted around in here and some people seemingly always want to pick fights with me. Thank you for being a patriotic American. So calm down. You are a true patriot, in my opinion.

[Skittles]

43. OK thanks

:)

[Science Of Myth]

5. Well, look, 9/11 was well designed enough

that I doubt it didn't evoke a gut-level reaction from just about everybody. And so in a sense that was supporting Bush bc he was the one saying "We are going to bomb the fuck outta them for this"

Unfortunately, when I say "well-designed" that isn't a poor choice of words. "The Powers That Be", if you will, are damned good at orchestrating things so events transpire as they want them to :(

[mediaman007]

9. Nope! He was a putz, even on 9-11! Cheney's always been a crook...

So there!

[Science Of Myth]

17. Haha

I didn't particularly mean support him on an intellectual level so much as a "lets go kick some ass!" level

[newyawker99]

65. Hi Science Of Myth!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. I despised him from the moment he was appointed

until 9/11. Then all was forgiven. I supported him in Afghanistan, but my support eroded when he didn't get OBL. Then Iraq. Then Katrina. Now the ports. Something stinks and it ain't in Denmark.

[AlCzervik]

23. one thing that bothers me to this day is that Dimson and his

minions have always tried to make 9/11 about him--something that happened to him and it's not, it happened on his watch.

[Little Star]

39. I was exactly like you T Grannie

Hated him for 2000 until 9/11. Then I rallied behind him until he wanted to invade Iraq. Then I got his number and have never doubted again how evil he and his are.

[Individualist]

7. NO

[LiberalinNC]

8. I didn't listen to him before 9/11 and didn't listen to him after 9/11

All I hear when he talks is blah, blah, lies, more lies, blah, blah!!!

He could have done so much more after 9/11 but as usual he failed!

[High Plains]

10. I supported his call to send a man to Mars

especially if Bush was the pilot and it was a one-way flight.

No, seriously, I'm for space exploration.

I will also give him half a kudo for talking about immigration policy. His guest worker program looks bad, but he's better than the House Republicans, and I don't want the Democrats are doing on this issue.

But other than that, he's still the worst president this country has ever had.

[Webster Green]

11. 9/11 didn't suck me in...

Quite the contrary. I thought it looked like a controlled demolition and that BushCo Inc. brought the towers down. Still do.

I do support the no-call list, but that's about the only thing I can think of. I still hate the fucking chimp.

[Ecumenist]

32. Webster, I agree wholeheartedly with you

I found myself with tears in my eyes knowing full well and actually said to my newlywed husband, "They either let this happen or engineered it although I must admit I felt it was more the latter than the former..

[clydefrand]

12. NEVER! NEVER HAVE! NEVER WILL. He's an idiot and I

refuse to support anyone so stupid who's supposedly leading this country. Get real. He couldn't lead a cow out of a barn without stepping in cowshit up to his knees.

[niallmac]

13. I support Bush now whole heartedly in his fight for the Dubai

contract. Oh yeah Mr. Preznit. You are so right to swim up stream on this. You have every right to take another swing at that Tar Baby. Who's he to tell you what to do?
Yes sir I support you to the end of the plank and into the deep blue sea.

[wtmusic]

14. Ditto nt

[Ecumenist]

15. F&%K NO!! HELL NO!!!

ABSO-F&%*KING-LUTELY NOT!!!! I was never taken in by this slob not for ONE.SINGLE.SECOND!!!
Chalk it up to my woman's intuition but I felt from day one that if this had happened on this moronic imbecile's watch, it was enough to show me that he was as worthless as a cup of used spit!!:kick:
Not that I ever approved or thought that he was anything but a sorry assed excuse for a decent upstanding, slobbering idiot, with apologies to all cretins everywhere.

[DemGirl7]

16. Ummm...NOOOOOOO!!!!!

I hated the asshole the first day I saw him on the news in 1999. I knew he was evil & an idiot. I will admit that for a little while after 9/11, I was a little sucked into the whole "rally around the flag thing" for about 2 weeks(but I quickly grew tired of it), but I never supported * though.

[Island Blue]

18. FUCK NO!!!! nt

[Skittles]

20. JAYSUS!

bush ESPECIALLY made me sick on 9/11 - lord, HOW did that incompetent piece of SHIT fool so many people? To answer your question, I've been in Texas 30 years and I was NEVER - not for ONE DAY - fooled by that piece of garbage. NEVER!!!

[rzemanfl]

21. Never. I wore all black, shirt, tie, coat, the works to the office the

day after the Supremes appointed him. When I entered a room full of people at work on 9/11 where the only TV was and saw the WTC rubble the first words out of my mouth were "And we have George Bush as President."

[WI_DEM]

24. No Never, not even on 9/11

That was an incredibly sad day but for me he didn't do anything to prove he was a leader. As I recall he looked dazed when informed sitting there with that kids book and then he hid out for a while in Nebraska. His stealing the presidency didn't make me embrace his "leadership" one iota.

[sandnsea]

25. I was grateful

Because I knew if Gore had been President, there would have been a full on attack by Republicans, no unity, and no chance at all to put an end to terrorism. Of course, I was upset that there was no response at the Cole. Anyway, I was grateful for that, but figured out pretty quickly Bush wasn't going to do anything legitimate on terrorism or even anything right by Afghanistan either.

The last 5 years has been a global power grab by the elite in the world, and not a thing more.

[Not Me]

26. He and I agreed on

the "Do not call" registry.

I can't even say I stood behind him on 9/11. I heard the war drumbeats from him and his crew long before any assessment of what happened, and what ought to be done.

[rateyes]

27. NEVER....EVER....

did I ever support that clown. I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

[Ecumenist]

35. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Rick Myers]

28. NEVER!!!!!!!!!!

Ever!!!

[lisa58]

29. Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never....

...need I go on?

[graywarrior]

30. I didn't support him even then.

I had a sneaking suspician he and his minions would take full advantage. Plus I was still furious over the stolen election. Christ could vouch for him and I'd never support the bastard.

[Rocknrule]

33. I thought Christ already did vouch for him

:sarcasm:

[whateveritis]

31. I shoot from the hip

Bush is no worse than any other president we've had in the last several years. Clinton sukked, Papa Bush sukks, Jr. sukks, all of them are all the same. POLITICAL. they lie, cheat to appease their party, and I'll lay ya another one... WHOEVER takes the seat in 08 is gonna be doing the same shit as Jr. Anybody here actually believe that we're gonna leave Iraq? Anybody here believe that we're not gonna have the same wiretap things going on? Anybody belive that there is not gonna be cronyism(sp)? So flame me if you must, I just try to keep it real.:crazy:

[countingbluecars]

41. How can you even compare Bush to Clinton?

They are not all the same. Bush is a horrible, evil man!

[AzDar]

36. No! When he was first touted as the Repub's leading candidate for

2000, I actually laughed out loud...thinking, 'jeesus, they are REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel!'
Even after 9/11, I LOATHED him; knowing he was gonna drop the ball on that one too..(which of course was even more egregious fumbling than I could've imagined). He has always been undeserving of the Office; he SICKENS me.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

37. Bush was a tiny little man whom history gave an opportunity to become

a large man. He seized the opportunity to become an even tinier man.

[pretzel4gore]

40. he's doing a good job

the sun comes up, the sun goes down, what do you expect from junior? i despised the top gun pilot prez cuz i feared he would be effective, like big dog was, only in a nakedly racist/sexist/class warfare way, but as anyone can see(!) ...now i'm his # 1 fan!
klol!

[stepnw1f]

44. I Knew That Fucker Was a Con Man

All I did was look at who his treasonous father was, and his nazi sympathizing war profiteering grandfather was. His family is laced with treason. I can't believe these fuckers got away with it all up until now. Ohhh no... it's gonna be pay back time.

[DemExpat]

45. Not for a nano-second.

:nuke:

DemEx

[genie_weenie]

46. Only after we've shotgunned 12 beers!

Or was that Cheney who shotgunned beers... Or was that friends... Maybe I'm thinking about pretzels?

[Rocknrule]

49. Cheney shotguns beers AND friends

[madmom]

47. not on his best day...never!

[Arugula Latte]

48. I was never fooled for one second. Not on 9-11. Never.

I knew that fucking son of a bitch would exploit the hell out of 9-11, and he did -- and then some. And the people who were stupid enough to believe him about Iraq -- well, they should hang their head in shame. Millions of us saw through it. Now tens of thousands are dead.

[tjdee]

50. Fuck no, I never bought his particular low class brand of shit.

Just wanted to be on record for that.

I saw his punk ass fly all over the planet "we'll catch the FOLKS who did this" nonsense, wasn't sucked in even then. Then, when I saw him say that he'd make sure funds got to "New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut (yes, CT)" that's when I knew he was the same old tool as he always was.

Eww.

[SammyWinstonJack]

51. I didn't support the pissant before, on or after 9/11. In fact I believe

he and his merry band of murderers had everything too do with 9/11.

[Lorien]

52. No, but a friend of mine was just like you

he despised *, but after the state of the union speech he called me up and said "you know, we had him all wrong. He's the real deal"! You could have knocked me over with a feather.

Fortunately he came to his sense a month or so later.

[FreedomAngel82]

53. I remember back

in 2000 after Gore "lost" I do admit I was starting to like him. Why? :shrug: Than came 2004 and I started doing tons of research and watching docs and all that. I didn't like him anymore and now I hate the guy. Before I was disappointed Gore "lost" (and I would have voted for him if I was old enough then) but at that point got over it and started liking Bush. I can't believe that. I even admit to thinking his ears were cute. :eyes: Now I need another shower.

[misternormal]

54. Never supported the weasel...

... nor did I support the old man.

[f-bush]

55. Are you fucking kidding?

I would have rather dental surgery with out an anesthetic!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

56. No. I have never supported drooling buffoons.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

57. Honestly...

I hated the man before September 11th, but not in a deep way. Only in a superficial way. I was 17 and wasn't too invested in politics. I hated the way the rich kids around me wrote things like "please let Bush win, we've suffered enough" during the 2000 election. I hated his anti-environmentalism. I hated his pro-wealthy tax cuts. But that was pretty much all I knew about him. September 11th fucked me up royally. I remember being curled up on the bed crying. But by the spring 2002, I saw what he was doing and then invested time in actually learning about the issues and why he was such a bad choice. So from September 2001-december 2001, I rallied around the president (I still cringed when he brought up "crusades". Between winter 2002 and spring 2002, I learned to loathe him again, only this time I knew exactly why.

[journalist3072]

58. The only time I had a policy agreement with Idiot Son

Was when he opposed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.

I felt we did not need another goverment bureaucracy. I felt like we just needed to make the FBI, CIA, etc TALK to each other and share vital information.

[DetroitProle]

59. I did back in highschool

Good thing highschoolers can't vote. I was just some ignorant kid.
I grew up and became disgusted with him. I started to have an open mind, went to college, and eventually became a bleeding-heart liberal. My first time voting was straight-ticket Democrat in the 2004 election. I see myself doing this for the rest of my life.

[yellowdogmi]

60. I liked the idea of going to Mars.

That is the only time I thought he showed a vision that is in tune with mine. The rest of his agenda has done so much harm to our country that I think we should send him to Mars.

[mitchum]

61. NEVER!

[Lindacooks]

62. NEVER.

EVER.

[saltpoint]

63. Only one small item goes on the 'positive' side of the ledger --

-- Dubya's decision (or whosever it was) to put the t-ball diamon on the White House lawn.

That's it.

Everything else has been a torrent of shit.

[foreverdem]

64. No, never

I live in NY and even after 9/11, I despised him. I felt terrible for what had happened to my city and this country, but that couldn't even bring me to support or even be able to stand him.

[Ino]

66. I never supported him

never, ever! I thought he was a buffoon from the moment I laid eyes on him. But I never thought he would be as AWFUL as he is. I was reassured that he had so many experienced people around him. I never thought THEY would be so nefarious.

[Hosnon]

67. Few months after 9/11. Such is the dangers of emotion in politics. nt

[land of the free]

68. No, I didn't

but I must say that I've prayed for him and hoped he would do the right thing.

I certainly did after 9/11. I've wanted him to rise to become a good leader.

I'm utterly amazed how much he's let us down.

I have agreed with him on one issue, however. He has increased funding for the arts. So, when people say I'm a "Bush hater", I remind them that I haven't disagreed with him on every issue LOL.

[pdxmom]

69. Never supported him. Stated flat out that if he was elected, he'd

have us in a war within a year. Knew we were doomed when he was elected. And I was against Bush, not absolutely, flat out against all Republicans.

Now, I'm flat out against all Republicans.

[Rocknrule]

73. Same here

Sad thing is, when W was "elected," I always joked about how he would cause WWIII because he was such an idiot, but I never thought he would actually do it. Now I know better.

[gilpo]

70. I think I can honestly say I have never believed ONE word that has...

...come from *'s mouth. Not one word.

[johnnie]

71. No

I was hoping he would step up after 9-11, but once again he proved that he is an idiot.

Ok, maybe I support that hybrid human/animal thing he was talking about. That would be cool. :thumbsup:

[fujiyama]

72. I'm not sure if I "supported" him

as much as truly hoped that he would do the right thing, in finding Osama and using the opportunity in uniting a nation that was pretty polarized earlier. I wanted to support him, because I felt he was all the nation had...

But within a month I knew his "war on terror" was a joke when he claimed Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were allies. Other things during the time reconfirmed what I thought of him before 9/11, like the treatment of postal service employees during the anthrax scare, and finally the PATRIOT Act. By the time tthe Iraq War drums started beating, I knew he was full of shit.

[lpbk2713]

74. Not a chance in Hell.

He showed what a crook & liar he is right from the start when he and his co-conspirators stole the Y2K election. And this country has gone downhill in more ways than I can count since that time due to that asshole.

[Art_from_Ark]

75. No, never

After all that shit that happened in Florida and at the USSC in 2000, where he got Cheney's other hunting buddy to hear his case against the voters of Florida (and America) and the real winner, Al Gore, I knew the guy was BAD NEWS. I have never thought otherwise.

[in_cog_ni_to]

76. NEVER! He's ALWAYS repulsed me!

I never fell for his "everyday man"...."from the heartland"...."I'm just a regular Joe" BULLSHIT. It was all an act. It's all STILL an act.:puke:

[Binka]

77. I Have Been Fervently Wishing He Would Fly Off The Planet

Since I first smelt him. He has always been a repugnant waste of space in my book.

Rangel Knows It Too! FUCKWITTAGE!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

78. 9/11 Only

Immediately following 9/11 and for a lot of the initial Afghanistan campaign, I admit to being a marginal Bush supporter. I was upset about how Bush got "elected" in 2000 but until 9/11, he seemed to be turning out to be a mediocre (and likely one-term) President, so I didn't pay a lot of attention to him before 9/11. I, like probably most people, rallied around him following 9/11 and wanted to see Al-Queda/Taliban punished for their alleged role in 9/11. I started to have serious doubts about him, however, when he gave the State of the Union address the following year and labled Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as an "Axis of Evil." I wondered (at the time) if that might've been a diplomatic/foreign policy disaster in the making and would make it more difficult to resolve our disputes with these countries. He COMPLETELY lost me when he began pushing for war against Iraq shortly thereafter. Even though I didn't have access to all of the intelligence reports, I couldn't logically understand how Iraq could've become the kind of threat that Bush was making it out to be, especially since we had had him boxed in for years through sanctions and no-fly zones. I also felt that his national security strategy, released in 2002, was rather chilling in terms of what it advocated. From mid-2002 onward, I have been a PROUD "Bush-hater" and will support any all political efforts to get more Dems in Congress in order to help keep Bushco in check and to ensure that we have a Dem in the WH in 2008.

[Hubert Flottz]

79. No !

NEVER!