Posted on 06/03/2007 4:05:09 AM PDT by raccoonradio
I have just come down with a dread disease, one that I once believed struck only moonbats.
Bush Derangement Syndrome - BDS.
I am so far out of the BDS demo - I don’t have a trust fund, a ponytail or hot flashes. I have two jobs. I laugh at Deval Patrick and carbon credits. I do not go to movies made by Michael Moore or Al Gore. I have no bumper stickers saying either Kerry-Edwards or 1-20-09.
But BDS can sneak up on you faster than a resolution banning trans-fat in SUVs at Brookline Town Meeting. Like so many other Americans, I first tested positive for BDS on May 18. That was the day George Bush and Ted Kennedy announced their amnesty bill for 12 - or is it 20? . . . or 30? - million illegal aliens.
Perhaps you’re familiar with the early symptoms of BDS - as soon as you see George Bush on TV you reach for the remote control, because if you don’t, you know you’ll start yelling at the TV set, scaring the children yet again.
Is BDS fatal? Not usually, but it may soon claim its first victim: the presidential campaign of John McCain. He’s sinking like a stone in the polls and I suspect full-blown BDS. It wasn’t supporting George Bush’s war that doomed McCain, it was supporting his amnesty bill.
The BDS epidemic has swept what were once called the “red states” in record time. Do you realize that 61 million people voted for George Bush in 2004 and at last count only 53 will still admit to it? Er, the count just went down to 52, now that Lou from Waltham has just faxed in:
“Not only can I not stand Bush, I can’t take that puppet of his, Tony Snow.”
Here’s a joke from a BDS quarantine ward:
Q. How many Bush supporters does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Both of them.
I’m not the first person to admit contracting this debilitating illness. Former Bush supporters are coming out, you might say, all over the Internet. If you’re wondering whether you, too, are at risk for contracting BDS, ask yourself the following questions:
Have you recently screamed at an RNC telephone fund-raiser - all of whom were just fired because everyone in the Republican base has stopped giving money since “shamnesty”?
Do you find yourself calling the president “Jorge”?
Have you dreamed of the day Jeb Bush runs for president, so you can vote against him?
Have you asked yourself, “Where can I get me one of those Z-visas so I don’t have to pay back taxes?”
If you answered “yes” to more than one of the above questions, consult your physician immediately. Before you can say, “Mission accomplished!” you may find yourself repeating Ronald Reagan’s great line about the Democratic Party: “I didn’t leave the party, the party left me.”
The right-wing Web sites have become self-help meetings, where the fallen-away wonder whatever possessed them to vote, twice, for a guy who has thrown in with Ted Kennedy, La Raza and Vicente Fox.
As Carbonado put it on Free Republic: “How bad was the other choice that an inept, tongue-tied goober like Dubya looked like the better choice?”
Inept tongue-tied goober - that passes for high praise these days for Bush 43.
OK, we got two good Supreme Court appointments, but one of them was over the objections of the inept, tongue-tied goober. The tax cuts worked, but they’re sunsetted. And the war on terror - how many more times can anyone afflicted with BDS listen to him talk about the terrible threat posed to Western Civilization by terrorists in Iraq, who kill an average of three Americans a day, after which he lauds those wonderful illegal aliens who, according to Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), are killing an average of 25 Americans a day?
The FBI describes stopping the illegal gangbangers of MS-13 as the top priority. Jorge wants to give them amnesty if they sign a “renunciation of gang affiliation.”
Border security 5,000 miles away in Iraq: Job One for the U.S. military. Border security along the Rio Grande: Yawn.
Every time Bush goes out to the Rose Garden and calls his own voters “vigilantes,” BDS spreads. More people see Dick Cheney and immediately think “Neo-con chicken hawk.” They see Michael Chertoff and think “bearded little weasel.” They see Ken Mehlman and Lindsay Graham and they think - well, let’s not go there.
Millions of people feel bushwhacked. They’re bushed.
Bush Derangement Syndrome. It’s not just for moonbats anymore.
You are very perceptive. Who will benefit most by this chaos and in what way will they benefit?
I filed my final divorce papers when Jorge said those of us opposing amnesty didn’t want to do what’s right for America. I wore the uniform of my country for many more years than Jorge did, and in more dangerous places. HOW DARE HE say I don’t want what’s best for America?
I won’t vote for him or any other RINO for dog catcher! I can hardly believe I was so misled.
And shame on the FBI and our political leaders for not having statistics about illegal alien crime to help us make this decision.
Symptoms (courtesy of Howie Carr):
(1) You see Dick Cheney and immediately think “neo-con chicken hawk” and "yeah sure, those are roses liberated Iraquis are throwing at the feet of US soldiers.....not IED's."
(2) You see Homeland/Secy Michael Chertoff and you think “bearded little weasel.”
(3) You see Kenny Mehlman and Lindsay Graham and think (&*$^&$^&# expletives deleted).
BDS infection spreads every time Bush goes out to the Rose Garden and calls his own voters “vigilantes.”
Just ask any cop who is responsible for violent crime.
“OK, we got two good Supreme Court appointments, but one of them was over the objections of the inept, tongue-tied goober.”
Great one!!!
We have all been Bush-wacked. NO MORE BUSHES!!!!! EVER!!!
The votes are in the middle and you need them to win.
We see the results of compromised, watered down, conservatism. We don’t need to win with such candidates. Better to let the libs screw it up so badly that a real conservative can get those “middle” voters. I will no longer vote for the “lesser of evils”. It makes me feel dirty. I want a conservative leader, not a compromiser, and no socialists need apply.
Burned out would be my guess.
It happens.
But to be compared to the loons over at the DU and Daily Kos and saying we have BSD ??
Well that is over the top and insulting
DITTO.
Howie nailed this one.
Seems like the infection has spread nationwide.
Get ready for the Bushwhackers. Do you have you insult armor on yet?
Excellent point. They probably have the stats but are not allowed to reveal them.
Bush has done even worse on me. I not only do not and will NEVER trust him again, but he and his RINOcrat party caused me to not renew my membership in the weak spine party, and I will vote now for a conservative. Whether that conservative has a real chance of winning or not. I am tired of voting for lying, leftist's kinds, who lie and rely on fear for our votes. I am tired of voting for republicans, simply as a means of not letting a dimocrat get in. The damage Bush has done to the conservative movement is as bad as what a dim president would do to the country, so not much difference. He has caused such a split in the party, that I doubt they can win the next dog catcher's election. Bush has been a total waste and total bust. He was a waste of 8 years of hope. 8 years of hope gone down the drain. Klinton lost the congress under his watch. Bush has equaled him. Bush lost the congress, the nation, the conservative movement, the people, and ME under his watch. He is a bust. I now sadly have to agree that he is a below average president. Maybe as low as Carter. George W. Bush, you simply are not my president any more. I no longer support nor follow you. I DO NOT TRUST YOU WITH MY LIFE AND MORE THAN THAT, I DO NOT TRUST YOU WITH MY COUNTRY.
Wow - perfectly said, exactly what I’m thinking. Probably exactly what most conservatives are thinking right about now.
Exactly , the dirty little secret is Jorge and Fox want a North American union to solve the corrupt and out of control Mexican gov’t.Jorge is loyal only to the Bush party and there cronies .I wish he would resign before he destroys the RNC.
I do confess that I suffer from symptoms #2 and #3. I wouldn't call that deranged, however. The "deranged" are those Bush advisors who keep telling him that the GOP doesn't need the support of the conservatives any longer.
I feel the same way. I have seen this coming since the 2004 election; where Bush the GOP won a resounding mandate and then went out and basically did nothing for the next 2 years, squandering their advantage, as Peggy Noonan put it.
I'm just now reading this thread & your comment really stood out to me. I still have a feeling in the pit of my stomach that there was something very wrong with the last election. Good conservatives losing, rolling over & playing dead. Bush's unfathomable silence when some were unfairly targeted by biased prosecutors. Some of the best conservative candidates (that, as you said - would have been the ones to come out loudly against this whole amnesty debacle) lost in 2006. It's almost like Bush & Co. (otherwise known as the Globalist Elite) was manipulating it all along.
It's crazy to think about it that way, but there are a lot of things that don't add up to me.
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