[Aristotelian]

I confess to being perplexed by the vehemence of Bush hatred. Part of it is due to an attitude of intellectual superiority: Bush isn’t smart enough to be president (despite his Ivy League degrees). It then goes to the 2000 election — e.g., dimpled chads, the SCOTUS ruling, the fact that Gore got more votes than Bush — and the notion that the election was stolen. (The one election that I know of that was stolen in U.S. presidential history was 1960, when JFK stole the election by fraud in Illinois — and also probably Texas — from Nixon.)

It’s not ideological, because Bush, unlike Reagan, is not noted for his “vision.” Nor is it corruption. This administration hasn’t been hit with a raft of subpoenas or trials as was the Clinton administration.

Perhaps the hatred is a reflection of frustration — frustration by the libs that their message isn’t very attractive to voters.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

BDS.

[txzman]

If you ask me, it’s Bush’s faith that creates the hatred. Telling a liberal ‘I love Jesus’ will do it everytime.

The name Jesus is a very powerful word.

[Thrownatbirth]

It was the Gore thing. The old message board I posted on was never the same.

[atomic conspiracy]

Bush’s clumsy speaking style and general demeanor are a slap in the face to the institutional media culture. That he doesn’t especially seem to care turns media-cult irritation into fury.
Bush’s apparent contempt for media culture is what really makes them crazy, it threatens the media-industrial complex and its millions of disciples right where they live.

[cva66snipe]

Any real Constitution loving Conservative should not like Bush at all. He is the worst Republican POTUS in over 100 years. His liberalism is second only to LBJ as is his foreign policy. How can anyone cheer on a man whom himself said he was not that far apart with Al Gore on most issues? What is to like? His ability to have his anointed friends continue to shred the Constitution? His underlings saying things like Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence...Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

We would not take this off a DEM yet because Bush is a Republican it's all just fine? What about Alberto Gonzales the man who never met a database on private law abiding citizens he didn't like? Bush and his cronies have all but destroyed the Republican party and made Hillary Clinton a far bigger threat to us than she ever could have been otherwise thanks to his new powers and programs the Stupid Party Republican Congress gave him. The name Bush should draw the disgust of all Conservatives. When will the GOP ever learn it's lesson? Bush is the Republicans Jimmy Carter. What is to like about the man? He wasn't Al Gore? Well Al Gore would have at least possibly faced some opposition by the GOP Congress.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"this time members of the intellectual class have been swept away by passion"

The fundamental premise of the story is wrong.

The people the writer describes are not "intellectuals" at all.

They are low grade, parasitic commie thugs, with an overwrought send of their own intelligence.

[Non-Sequitur]

Well, if Hillary is elected we will no doubt see a level of loathing on par with Bush hatred, if not exceeding it.

[Hardastarboard]

The people, or various factions among them, have indulged in Clinton hatred, . . LBJ hatred, FDR hatred,

And they were justified, at least in the cases above. Clinton and LBJ were utterly corrupt, and FDR was a Commie wanna be.

[mo]

IMHO, think cross, think demon....the imagery works....and unfortunately makes more sense than almost anything else.

[wgflyer]

Liberalism compels it’s followers to venture ever further into maniacal irrationality because nothing liberal can be supported by rational debate, as it’s goals are completely opposite to the results of it’s application. The frustration must be monumental, and to have the folly pointed out can only produce sobs or raging hatred or both.

[moonman]

Members of the intellectual class of Bush haters, have been beaten at every turn over the past 7 years by a man they call stupid.

Like watching Wiley Coyote chasing the Roadrunner.

[ripley]

the left hates christians, christianity and the reason for christianity; they absolutely loathe them and Him.

they’ll deny it and hide behind what they portray as enlightenment, brilliance, tremendous intellectual capacity, boundless wisdom and shining vision, not to mention faultless reasoning. they are jealous of the space in the human soul that is taken up by faith. without that they are powerless; watch them sometime as they denigrate people who believe. watch the sneering, the snide comments and the denigration and then imagine them and their minions with veto-proof power.

[chesley]

Where I disagree with this analysis is the assumption that both liberals and conservatives are dedicated to the Constitution. Unfortunately for them the Constitution, as written, puts a serious cramp in their plans for surrendering our sovereignty to the French and other one-world socialists

[ChessExpert]

“Bush hatred is not a rational response to actual Bush perfidy.”

Correct. It is not about fact, reason, or principles. I remember reading a comment that secular Jews use remembrance of the holocaust to maintain their Jewish identity. I think something similar applies here. The left hardly has Marxism/communism as a unifying theory any more. Now I think they unify through hate: “we know who we are because we know who we hate.”

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

First, we didn’t hate Clinton. We were disgusted by his selfish, immature antics. Second, the hatred for Pres. Bush is unprecedented.

Here’s one author’s analysis of BDS. It’s a hatred for middle America and the ‘gall’ they had to elect someone who wasn’t a 60’s style radical:

http://www.talkaboutgovernment.com/group/alt.politics.usa/messages/623416.html

[subterfuge]

“It’s the media, stupid.”

(not you Aristotle)

[Eddie01]

It’s called “group think” and their ain’t nothing intellectual about it.

[Arrowhead1952]

Bush hatred is alive and well in Austin. I've come close to writing a letter to the editor of the Statesman and tell every other letter writer they may as well start every letter with:

"I hate GW Bush and I hate all Republicans."

Believe me, my subscription will never be renewed again.

[goldstategop]

The Left is supposed to be sophisticated and rational and its lost that because it has seen a President with a lower IQ and reasoning powers make fools of it time and time again. In short, our brightest and smartest people got taken in by a guy they consider dumb. Now we know where so of the Bush hatred is coming from; its pure spite.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus