When you get right down to the core of it, they think that President Bush is dumb. They don't like that he makes decisions without their sage advice, and contrary to their wise opinions.
He moves on his own, independent of any special interest group or strain of ideology, and this drives the elitists on the right crazy.
Then the blind followers of those elitists mimic them on FR, and call themselves 'purists.'
I'm going to respond to this post rather than the other in which you made some nice comments. I'm not trying to zero in to pick on you, but you raise some issues I'd like to address.
Do you really think I am paralllel to those on the left who look down on this President? I have supported conservatives and conservative causes since I was eighteen years of age, some 37 years ago. Why would I have a vested interest in talking down this President if he were acting in conservative ways> I support him openly when I can. I take him to task when I can't. This time I can't.
When you get right down to the core of it, we don't think he's dumb. What we do ponder, is what would posess him to do what he is doing. Why has he taken the tact he has with regard to education spending, overall budget spending, borders, immigration from terrorist states and a number of other issues? We may not be sages, but it doesn't take a sage to disagree on some of these matters.
If it weren't for some of these blatantly poor decsions that have been evidenced, I wouldn't be as inclined to disagree with him on other issues. On this issue I must. Do you really think this makes me an elitist. Why are you so eager to pigeon hole me and others who have come down on this issue in objection?
Okay, you think I'm blind and others are following me or I am following someone else. Well, thanks. I guess I couldn't have formed an informed opinion on my own. That's nice to know.
Sorry, but you and I will have to disagree on this one.
Possibly two sides of the same coin, ohio.
Elitists love Rhetoricians. Even in their disagreements with Reagan - and they clearly had them - they could and did trust much and forgive much compared to their misunderstanding and distrust of this President.
You are right that some of them think President Bush APPEARS dumb...don't know how many think he IS dumb but they sure see him as appearing dumb, due largely to his lack of rhetorical skills and flourishes. (If he had more of those, he could get away more with marching to the beat of his own drummer, I think.)
In THAT, they agree with the elitist LEFT. Not good company to be in...