Posted on 05/15/2009 3:45:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The BDS syndrome deserves serious study....
I am old enough however to remember that right after Reagan got out of office there was a lot of bitching and moanin from the right ...As I remember it, it took a while for Reagan to become Reagan
On the threads I have perused, there have been the usual, ill-informed, short-sighted, kinda stupid Bush bashers, but the hideous name-calling, abject hatred seems to have abated.
When I left, every single thread about President Bush was attacked in the first 20 posts by mindless, brain-dead, emotionally out of control nut-cases. The inmates seemed to be running the asylum, and it was ugly.
Now there seem to be more Bush supporters (i.e the smart people) who are brave enough to tell the truth about our President without being assaulted. It's been kind of refreshing to see the DU imposters in the minority.....otherwise, I probably wouldn't be posting here at all.
Anybody old enough and observant enough to have been paying attention remembers that the now deified Reagan was assaulted mercilessly by some of the same people who now worship him and assault President Bush. If one was truly an admirer of President Reagan at the time, it hurt to see him attacked by conservatives who never had to make a significant decision in their lives and expected perfection (their definition of the word) from Reagan, like they do from Bush now.
That's actually helped me out in seeing the rightist attacks of our strong, moral and principled President. I figure they'll come around in time.
Some have already.
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