The lastest polls put Bush's numbers somewhere between the high 20's and the low 30's. I find this incredibly high for someone who is not only a failure as a "war president" but as a conservative.
There are two reasons and two reasons only why almost a third of the nation still approves of this corporate shill: 1) They are neither conservative or Republican but Bushists whose only ideology is whatever Bush wants it to be and 2) The more popular reason-they cannot admit they are wrong.
It's hard to admit you are wrong. I was the world's BIGGEST Republican until 2003 when we went into Iraq. The rationale didn't make sense and too many citizens where getting blacklisted for questioning the President (Dixie Chicks, Janeanne Garofalo, Bill Maher, etc.) and I didn't like what Bush was making this great nation into-debtor nation with no checks-and-balances.
I came of age under the Gingrich revolution-where small, unintrusive government, budget surpluses, government accountability and protectionist MADE-IN-THE-USA trade policies were the conservative norm. It was tough leaving my political party in 2003 but Republicans left there values behind for inconsistent, destructive policies. The party left real conservatives behind in favor of Bush's shortsighted whims.
It's hard to admit a mistake, something that Bush rarely does. But learning from mistakes is what makes us grow as adults. I cannot tell you who a better alternative is, Democrats are barely better. But getting the GOP back to its Roosevelt/Lincoln roots may be the political challenge we need to make this generation. This can only happen if you first admit that you are wrong on Bush.
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Kerry or Gore would have been much better. How much worst can anyone be than this guy? Those two actually had coherent economic, foreign and military policies. Are they perfect? No. But Bush is destroying this nation. Too often folks get caught up in identity politics ("I'm a real man, so I can't vote for a Dem") instead listening to facts. Bush and the current GOP is a brand NOT an ideology.
True. The problem in this country is our lack of independent parties. We need a parlimentary system, like most democracies have, with run-off elections, popular voting (no electoral college) and proportional party representation in Congress.
Colin Powell would have been an excellent choice and another that comes to mind is Norman Schwarztkoff...either one would have made a very good President, someone with a "no-nonsense" approach that would'nt try to impose American will on the rest of the world, as Bush has done.
Both are too damn smart and don't WANT the job however. Bush should have been under investigation from the onset...should have been re-called after 9/11; horsewhipped for the failure to get FEMA rolling in response to Katrina and dropped in downtown Baghdad to fight his own chickenshit war!!! LOL..sorry, that just kinda slipped out...opps!!! LOL
Amen. And I'm not even religious!
Actually I'd say it's less a brand (the GOP) than a sports team. The mentality of many voters has been "my team, no matter what" - for entirely too long. The jubilation when "their team" wins, and all that rot. It's just silly. What about the issues? Voting strictly for your party just because "they're my party" is just dumb. It's worse than that - it's deliberate, willful ignorance.
Instead we're left with two idiot parties that are so far from their original roots it's pathetic.
Thanks for sharing, you have no idea how refreshing you are!
The press gives him a whole Lotta flack for nonsense, he not a political so that hurts his ratings.
I like him though
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