One thing I will miss about Bush

[right is wrong]

Bush is my litmus test. ANYONE who supports him is irreparably stupid, greedy, or evil. This one issue eclipses all else (for me). When he is gone I will have to go back to the flip floppy world of figuring out where people stand and what their values are. Right now I am free to say all Republicans are bad, if they had a soul they would quit their party. So many shades of Grey, I will miss this black and white world of George......not really!

[teach1st]

1. I have to disagree with this...

ANYONE who supports him is irreparably stupid, greedy, or evil.

I know good people who support Bush. If all you get are some headlines, it's not hard to think Bush is swell.

[right is wrong]

3. replace stupid with ignorant then

I agree it takes work to get beyond the headlines, but that is what our Democracy needs.

[teach1st]

4. Misinformed, misguided, narrowly read, in denial NT

[Demeter]

2. Those People Will Still Be Around, Spouting Inanities

We still have idiots who want to put Reagan on the dime and everything else.

[Hello_Kitty]

11. As evidenced by their continued obsession w/Clinton. n/t

[amber dog democrat]

5. The only thing is he is such a litmus test that I am overpowered

by the duplicicy, stupidity, and mandacity of the Chimp.
He will go down in history as the first president more hated than Nixon.
I won't miss all his fascist friends one bit.

I wonder if the Chimp will be cannonized in years to come like St Ronnie is now.
Honest, can you imagine a conversation years hence where some says " I don't think the Chimp was that bad "

Just a few more days :)

[NoodleBoy]

6. One thing I will miss about Bush:

Nothing.

[chinacatsunflower]

7. some republicans are all right...just ignorant

the wealthy repulicans i have a problem with. b/c they support monkey man's efforts to keep the working class down. they are more apt to be educated and actually know why they support Bush. which if you understand the facts and you still support him then you are just evil.
but then when i see people in my community (i live in one of the poorest parts of the country) living in a beat up trailer, driving an old clanky truck, and working at the lumber mill with a Bush/Cheney sign in their front yard it makes me want to cry. Especially when i know that they are also ex-military. B/c chances are they never learned how to read words big enough to understand the sunday paper. So they base their opinions on hear-say and, sadly, faith.

"well good ol'george w. says he believes in God. so i believe in him. well and he don't support them queers gettin married. or killin babies. and well we gotta fight them towel heads that done bombed the trade center. he done caught saddam. plus he's from texas."

i hear that all too often....

[amber dog democrat]

8. When I to to the tool vendor frequented by cabinet makers...

I have taken to parking face-out so I won't offend anyone with my anti Bush stickers.
This is out of respect for these folks - and also a wish to avoid being seen as judgemental.

The more marginal, less educated folk who suscribe to a myth - are the ones who should NOT be voting for this con artist who manipulates cultural obsessions.

By the way , welcome to DU:hi:

[chinacatsunflower]

10. thanks i'm happy to be here!

The more marginal, less educated folk who suscribe to a myth - are the ones who should NOT be voting for this con artist who manipulates cultural obsessions

yep..thats what king scumbag is doin. I live in the middle of nowhere in tennessee but i'm originally from connecticut. So my husband and i see the lack of education and opportunity here more clearly and see what these people should be entitled to. It made me sick in Far. 911 when Bush was talking about how hard he works. I was like, "Fuck that!!!!!! he should see how hard the people around here work." but these people would be the first to go out there and fight for his pointless wars and he doesn't even give them the courtosy of comfortably being able to support their families. the only thing that POS has goin for him is his ability to strike fear into the masses. Unfortunatly that is taking him a long way. I am constantly praying for Kery to win this election. If not i might be high tailin off to australlia or new zealand or something........

[amber dog democrat]

12. I keep my passport current

and we have been talking about Costa Rica, Canada what ever.

The Bush supporters remind me of what I know about people who lived in the Southern states during the Confederacy. Fighting and dying for a bad cause if ever there was one.

This does not mean they are NOT worthy of courtesy and respect...even if they are misguided. This is why I don't look forward to family reunions incidenlty.

I think I may be too radical in my beliefs - for my own good. I wonder if I am not a utopian idealist at heart. I just keep thinking that some kind of balance will restore us to sanity - if ever we were sane to begin with.

Here I am , 50, a 5th generation Texan that never suscribed to many of the cultural norms I grew up with. If I feel alienated in the rural areas of my home state, how much more so do you feel out of context in the middle of nowhere Tennessee, ( the volunteer state)? This is especially having come from the Nutmeg State as viewed from the thickets of the Friendly State ( which incidently still executes more people and juviniles than all the other states in the union and many more countries in the world ?

I wonder if the Chimp is not some kind of a chastizement from a supreme power or
a glitch in an operating system or a flaw in a genetic code - some kind of enevitible
degradation that is built into our system of government and politics - that stops reason and good faith from gaining too strong a hand in the affairs of the world.

For every Albert Schwietzer, there are scores of Tamerlanes and Pol Pots.

I console myself that the Third Reich only lasted 12 years and the Chimp lacks the
charisma of even Stalin among more than half of the voting population.

He is the gatherer of $$ for the rich, the advocate of the well heeled vested interests,
the William Jennings Brian of the reactionary religious conservative
and the PT Barnum of the uneducated.

I just pray we are more powerfull than his supporters. Oh and how about those Red Sox ? !!

[Anakin Skywalker]

9. Some are just downright selfish jerks!

"...they support monkey man's efforts to keep the working class down."

You are damn right about that! These conscienceless-capitalists all support outsourcing and workplace anarchy. They have a knee-jerk reaction to criticism of any of those two things. I call them them the "Anything for a Buck" crowd. It's perfectly all right for them that fellow Americans are unemployed and the working ones are exploited as long as their portfolios are fat. What a great way to barrel through life, huh? Their logic goes like this: I'm rich = The economy is strong.

[NoodleBoy]

13. "I make more now then before Bush entered office"

I've actually heard that as "proof" that Bush is good for the economy.

One guy who said it expanded his little poll, by including his parents, who said they made more. Odd thing he didn't remember that he was in High School before Bush took office and entered the military after graduating.

[tbagwell52]

14. I totally agree

Being raised in Arkansas I can understand where you're coming form with you last line about rednecks and their blind faith of the right. My mother, God bless her, is basing her vote on monkey boy for one simple fact... he's a Christian(I can't tell that he is). I try to make my point on why religious preference and the state of the union should not mix but she doesn't want to hear it. This simple act of what the right has done with religion, mainly the Christian faith, is what has made the polarization of the two parties so blatant. When people can respect their spiritual views of each other and come to an agreement of what's good for the country, the system can work most of the time. We had this correlation in the 90's but thanks to W. and Pat Robertson we look at the parties with a cynical look of one being an atheist and the other being quakers. This is what the right wants. We as democrats need to be sure to stand above the b.s. and preach the truths of what radical conservatism will do to this country. We need to show Billy Joe Bob in Arkansas that universal health care can work, than he can afford a descent home, car, and life. Kerry has to stand up and make it happen... I pray to god on a regular basis that he will and that the mistakes of the last four years can be reversed.