What I have found weird though, especially in conversations I had just this weekend, is that some of them hate him (for the reasosn described above) and consider themselves solid Democrats, yet seem to have a lot of what would be considered generally Republican ideas (mostly taxes...particularly estate taxes).
They call him "stupid" without any real evidence, and they define "arrogance" as someone who is sure of themselves - "no one has a right to be that sure of themselves." You must understand, they have no core values, and anyone that does just confuses them. The third thing that I've heard is Bush's "privilege" of getting into good schools,etc because of his family. I always respond that I plan to work hard to give my kids every advantage possible. The jealous leftists would rather have it handed to them or just sit back and complain.
That is the Democrats dirty little secret, that a large portion of those who consider themselvs Democrats are, in fact, fairly conservative in some way or other. The only way they keep those people from defecting is by demonizing the other side. Now, I am not going to pretend that Republicans don't demonize, but I can't remember the last Democrat that was demonized by the Republicans (Clinton dont count, he was slimified by his own, uh, slime, if you will). The Republicans used to demonize by calling the other guys commies (essentially), but that doesn't work any more. I mean, we live in an age where the Democrats get up there and say that the Republicans want to starve senior citizens.. What do the Republicans say that is even as remotely as bad?