[Sabertooth]

Many are repeating criticisms of Bush that we see aimed at him from DU. Someone at FR today said that Bush lied about WMD's and took us to war on false pretenses. Also, many folks screaming about the guest worker proposal are advocating voting for a third party.

And?

I see many Democrat talking points, race-baiting, and Clintonista style personality-cult behavior among a lot of the President's defenders.

What am I to make of that?

Lotsa pots and kettles around here, and so it will always be.

So, the best thing to do, I find, is ignore most of it, have fun with some of it, and try and reach an individual here, and another there.

Not your fault, I know, but there are so many here lately that advocate voting for an opposition party that it is difficult to tell who are genuine political allies.

While some never voted for Bush in 2000, many did.

Many of those allies have been disaffected because alliances are mutual relationships, and President Bush hasn't always had the keenest ear for that.

We're all recalling what happened in 1992, when the tin ear of GHWB led to a loss of a huge part of his 1988 constituency to Ross Perot. I voted for Bush, but take a contrary view to one I see all too often here, by those who blame Perot or the voters, instead of Bush 41 himself, for blowing all of those votes.

He was the President. He was the candidate. The buck stops with him.

The same holds true for this President Bush.

Wouldn't Bush 41, and the country, have been better off if he had paid more attention to the grumblings in the GOP in the Fall and Winter of '91 and '92?

Was he well-served by advisors who told him "ignore them, it'll pass. You just won a war in Kuwait. Do the 'read my hips' gag."

Would he not have been better off with fewer yes-men and more folks willing to talk straight about the mistakes he was making and the effect it would have on his chances for reelection?

And yet, even as you see disruptors, disruptors everywhere, I see a lot of folks who just want to shout down the dissent, and ignore the votes that are leaking from the GOP coalition.

[Tamzee]

And? When I see people in my community association forum trying to dissuade people from supporting Bush for re-election, I step in and try to persuade the people to support him. Of course the people in my community association forum doing this are liberals and hard leftists.

But what is the difference between that and the folks here screaming at everyone to vote for Tancredo or Peroutka? Voting for them is JUST AS MUCH voting opposition as voting for the Democrat. Since I believe that Bush and the GOP are the best vehicle for furthering my values at this point then I don't care how close someone is to me philosophically... if they are voting against Bush they are political opposition.