Do U.S. citizens still need more GOP?

[gulliver]

Look at the effect of GOP politics on the country. Anyone can see we are a sickly ghost of what we were before the GOP started in on our veins. But have U.S. citizens suffered enough to correct their course? I really don't know.

81% say we are on the wrong track, but a bunch of them may be too dense/oblivious to realize it is the direct result of cracked GOP dogma and political incompetence. Our own Dem leaders don't even seem to know it. We still hear them stupidly criticizing "Washington" or, ironically, dissing "politicians". Dem leaders still talk about "reaching across the aisle" as if comity with the GOP were a worthy end in itself, as if the problem were only that we are fighting, not what we are fighting about.

Bush's approval is around 30%, but a majority of Republicans still approve. They will continue to do so until they find their whole family bagging groceries and flipping burgers into their seventies. Then they will blame the gays.

Most of the people who "strongly" disapprove of Bush are probably just venting ignoramuses themselves. They disapprove of Bush, but they don't exactly know why. The inherent ineffectiveness of knee-jerk GOP conservatism escapes these people completely. They waddled into line behind ducky mommy W after 9/11, but by now they have lost their job or their house. So they fret and pout about W now. That's their reasoning.

I'm pessimistic about the people. Maybe things have not gotten bad enough for them. They still want to play around in Simple-ville, proudly weighing options they don't really have in what they witlessly see as a conservative/liberal dilemma. The country may need to fade some more, lose some more hair, and cough up some more blood before its citizens know to stop drinking the poison that is GOP "politics."

[leftofcool]

1. Without the GOP

who would Dems have to hate? Wait a minute, I forgot.........the Clintons

[bluerum]

3. ,,, the Lieberman hino (human in name only,,) thing

[opihimoimoi]

2. Many of the GOP are so Passionate they cannot think w reason...

Thus they continue the fight against the Hated Libs...not fully comprehending the situation...that they are voting against their selfinterests....

The Republicans have been nurturing an undereducated class for years....this is their Base and when added to the mega rich..they form the 30%....

[Muttocracy]

4. it is startling how people can vote against their own self-interest, and not in an altruistic sense.