The Bush daughters are cute but I have seen enough of them to suspect they are spoiled rotten.
Jenna & Barbara are perfectly normal, immature 22 yo gals. Cut them some slack. If they like Kid Rock, so be it. I'd prefer to see ZZ Top, and these guys can be 10 times as vulgar as the Kid.
I think you're right on both counts. It's dismaying to see so many FReepers blowing this off as no big deal.
I would add that one's opinion of Don Wildmon is irrelevant here.
Supporting Bush or the "troops" is no excuse for moral decadence. Morally decadent bands shouldn't have any part whatsoever in the inaugural festivities.
Once again, the Bush crowd is disconnected from the president's base, a further sign of the president's weakness. A truly great president, who truly understood the crisis of our times and how we must respond to it, would never have this happen to him.
You haven't seen enough, then. There's nothing to indicate that and everything showing just the opposite.
This is why John Kerry and Al Gore came so close to being president. The "holier than thou" crowd scares away voters twice their number who would otherwise love to be conservatives.
Conservatism is being high jacked by a small minority (who fancy themselves as a majority) that believes that puritan virtues are all that matters. American sovereignty, property rights, protection of the 2nd amendment, high taxation, and the embracing of socialism are just small, peripheral issues to this group.
What really matters is that some "dirty" words are being said on TV and divorce is no longer considered a sin. Bush would haven't gotten at most 20% of the vote if he had publicly campaigned with this group's vision of America, yet they insist that they were the ones the "elected him".
At least with KR you get what you see. It's a little more honest than some of the people who pretend to be right upstanding citizens publically and are adulterous horndogs privately...