[SpringheelJack]

please spare the outrage. You will convince no one on this board insult isn't meant when that term is affixed to G.W.B. Especially with the poster in question. We've seen and heard it too often to be convinced otherwise. Save the prsentation for the more gullible.

Trust me, I have no outrage. Just incredulity. I think this whole issue is ridiculous.

If you want to project insult into the term, then have at it, but it's projection. Reardon may be a Bush opponent, but I'm not and I use it, and see nothing wrong with it. Liberals often refer to "Dubya" in their screeds, but that doesn't turn the term itself into an insult.

[Soul Seeker]

No, it is reality.

From every troll that uses it, from every NYT's article, from Saddam Hussein it is meant as a derogative.

Perhaps, as you say, it is not so in your case. You would be very much in a small minority.

"DUBYA" has been turned into a term of affection among the right. You will not see people contesting use of that term on this board. "JR" has not been similiarly rehabilitated.

[Hank Rearden]

Reardon may be a Bush opponent

I'm a Big Government opponent, no matter which cheap politician is advocating it.

Too many are willfully blind to the selling-out of the American People by the Bush Administration and the Republican Party - take that daily picture-licking thread, for instance. Worshipping politicians is not the mark of a theoretically-free country.