Posted on 08/16/2006 12:41:13 PM PDT by gondramB
I got called a Bushbot again yesterday - its happening more and more. Now this particular person wants machine gun nests set up at the border to kill anyone who crosses and he sees all foreign trade as evil and thinks the President is trying to end U.S. sovereignty and when he calls me a Freeper he means it as a bad thing... So I'm not too worried about his opinion but it got me thinking...
In a lot of ways I'm more conservative than President Bush - I don't think he places enough importance on controlling spending, border security or dealing with existing illegals. I don't think he has vetoed as much as he should have.
Sometimes I differ on what the President thinks is conservative, for example with evolution or privacy - I'm big on science, individual rights and limits on government.
In some areas, like holding the country together after 9/11 and dealing with Afghanistan, judicial appointments, trade and opposing abortion Presient Bush has done a great job - not perfect but no President is perfect.
I don't think we went into Iraq at the right time in the right way. I don't bring this up much because we are at war now - there is nothing to be gained by complaining about how we went into Iraq - we are there and it needs to be a national effort to see the job through, support our troops and leave a stable Iraq that isn't a threat.
I'm starting to think that a Bushbot is a conservative who, even though he sometimes disagrees with the President continues to support our commander in chief in time of war and who is darn glad he's the President instead of Kerry.
I guess there are worse things to be called.
Even if you disagree with the President, but still insist on standard conservative principles, you will get called a Bushbot because you oppose the imposition of Marxist trade policies, or criticize the criminal organizations known as unions, or are a Christian or what have you.
Bushbot is what Teddy Rooselvelt would have called a weael word - a meaningless word meant to suck the meaning out of the words surrounding it.
Punk the prez? - Moby's anti-Bush tricks (New York Daily News - 2/09/04)
One of Sen. John Kerry's celebrity supporters is ready to pull out all the stops to get him elected. Republicans are shrieking over a suggestion by rocker Moby that Democrats spread gossip about President Bush on the Internet. "No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on Election Day," Moby tells us. "It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes." Moby suggests that it's possible to seed doubt among Bush's far-right supporters on the Web."You target his natural constituencies," says the Grammy-nominated techno-wizard. "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.
"Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, 'What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?'"
Moby didn't claim that he believed the abortion story...
You supported Arabs controlling American ports.
You supported Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court.
"Arabs controlling American ports."
When? and with what military?
You support "Comprehensive" Immigration Reform before securing our borders.
REally, when were the Arabs going to control American POrts?
You've been talking to Pat Buchanan?
Where you been? Ever heard of the Dubia Ports deal?
Where you been? Ever heard of the Dubia Ports deal?
You need to get out more...
Sure did, but it wasn't about Arabs controlling american ports was it., The way I understood it, it was about Arabs handling the containers that come into our ports.
You mindlessly, in knee-jerk fashion, oppose absolutely every policy initiative of Pres. Bush.
You might be a "Patsie" if:
Every candidate you've ever voted for never got more than 1% of the vote.
You might be a "Patsie" if:
You are so ethically challenged that you see no difference between the Republicans and Democrats.
Sounds like a Pat Buchanan supporter, otherwise known as a "Patsie".
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My impression is that the Left defines a "Bushbot" as anyone who doesn't believe that President Bush should be impeached and sentenced to life behind bars.
See post 17.
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