The Insanity of Bush Hatred

Wall Street Journal ^ | 14 November 2007 | PETER BERKOWITZ

[Jaysun]

That’s what I think too. They’ve chosen misery.

[George W. Bush]

Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.

[Names Ash Housewares]

“All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all
truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all
the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were
visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled
upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by
his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he
burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.” -Melville, Moby Dick

[DoughtyOne]

You folks are addressing one of the most dangerous dynamics we face as a nation each election day. We faced it twice in the 1990s. In 1992 and 1996 our nation elected a man known to have very serious flaws. Right now we’re poised to see the power behind the man run for her own term as President. If a segement of our populace continues to ignore the obvious in order to see their way clear to vote for Hillary next hear, our nation will be in jeopardy for between four and eight years.

The warning signs are there. Historians will have a hay day if those warning signs are ignored and the evil one gets elected.

[Badeye]

I agree, and see the same problem with Guiliani, btw.

[Arrowhead1952]

Earlier thread with lots of good replies. This thread has lots of BDS comments.

Posted on 11/14/2007 4:13:23 AM CST by Aristotelian
ANGRY LEFT: The Insanity of Bush Hatred

[ArrogantBustard]

BDS precedes Bush ... Those of a certain age will recall that the left hated President Reagan with the same white-hot ferocity, and showed considerable signs of it toward President Nixon.

[DoughtyOne]

I share your observation in part. I will say that I think Rudy would do some things I think would be wrong. He would do it in good concience though. I doubt we could say that about Hillary. She would do thinks against this nation, and she has no concience whatsoever.

[Badeye]

Fair points.

I still won’t vote for Guiliani under any circumstances.

[SwinneySwitch]

Liberalism is a mental disease.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The left hated Reagan just as much.

That’s why they never mentioned his degree in economics, amongst other things.

[Steve_Seattle]

Last night in a local bar, I ran across a Bush-basher who claimed that after 9/11 "Bush" had allowed Saudi nationals to leave the country during the time when the FAA had grounded all non-emergency aircraft, and had failed to question any of the Saudis who departed.

So today I looked up what the 9/11 Commission said about that topic and, of course, the guy was wrong on every point. No Saudis left the country before the general aviation ban was lifted, the Saudis were interviewed and checked out against terrorist watch lists, and Bush had nothing to do with any of it. It was handled mainly by the FBI, under the general direction of Richard Clarke. Bush and Cheney didn't even know about it till after it happened. Those are the official conclusions of the report. Once again, BDS leads its victims astray.

The guy also claimed Bush was getting rich from the war. In 2006, Bush paid taxes of $186,000 on an income of $642,000. After you back out charitable contributions of $78,000, his after-tax income was $378,000, a little less than the salary of a typical utility infielder in Major League Baseball. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, made an estimated $7 million, mostly from speaking engagements, where he charged up to $350,000 per speech (per Forbes Magazine).

[weegee]

If there had been no electoral college, we would’ve had the mess of Florida litigation spread out to every district in America.

Al Gore “won” by 0.51%. The final Florida tally did not include the 3,000 military ballots that were approved by the Florida Supreme Court (they weren’t going to change the outcome so Katherine Harris certified the original tally).

There were a number of places that did not tally the absentee ballots because they too would not have affected the outcome. Add to that known vote fraud, etc. etc.

We’d still be trying to figure out who won.

Let’s do away with giving Rhode Island 2 Senators too. < /s >

[Badeye]

I know.

[tennteacher]

Hmmm. . . virtuous hatred? OxyMORONIC.

It’s because they’re stupid- Eisenhower was, as were Reagan and Bush 43. Bush 41 was okay, but the stupid label passed to Quayle. We’re waiting until the Republican nomination for the next “stupid Republican” label.

[vpintheak]

Oceana has alway been at war with......

[DoughtyOne]

And neither will I. At some point you have to stand up and say you won’t buy into moving incrementally left any longer.

If the right is going to act like a democrat, we just as well vote for democrats. I don’t want to do that any longer.

[Badeye]

Yep.

Reminds me of Reagans reason for dropping out of the Democratic Party;

‘I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, they left me’.

Thats how I’m beginning to feel about the GOP.

[Domangart]

Every large farm/ranch should have two, They come in handy for pork.

[DoughtyOne]

Whether you supported him or not (and I did), I couldn’t accept the leadership of the RP calling Buchanan the next Hitler in 1996. When Bob Bennet was asked to repudiate that comment, he said that if Buchanan wasn’t Hitleresque, he walked right up to the line and wavered over it. Dole was asked and he said he didn’t want to address the issue.

Up until that moment, I accepted the idea that Republicans won on issues. They offered the best views and won elections in that manner. I thought immigration was a very important topic, and if Buchanan was going to get called Hitler because of his views on immigration, I wasn’t going to stand for it. I voted for Dole that year and have felt unclean since. I didn’t vote for Bush the fist time around. I voted for Buchanan. In 2004, I did vote for Bush. And look what he has done with regard to protecting our borders.

That incident in 1996 was the moment I realized that the Republican party would do anything to win. And at the same time I realized I couldn’t support anything they would do, just to win.

The party didn’t just walk away from me, they ran as fast as they could from me, and the values I still hold dear. Look at what they foisted off on us in California.

I’ve voted for my last RINO, and Arnold was the one. That was a very tough vote to cast. If I had to do it over again, I wouldn’t, but I don’t fault that vote. I was trying to prevent someone even worse from getting the office. I just can’t continue to vote for a RINO time after time after time.

I won’t be doing so.