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The far right wing is getting really stupid. They are acting like hillbillies who didn't make it past third grade. Take several hundred conservative actions Bush has taken and just totally ignore them and harp on less then 10 moderate or even left wing actions and judge him on the less then ten things that aren't conservative. What a freekin joke this is turning out to be. Base your opinion on a few things you don't like and keep your morals but ignore all the rest. There is a term for these kind of people and it's called - nutjobs !

Clinton signed seven very right wing bill a GOP congress sent him and not one left wing wacko called him a conservative !

Freekin wackos all over the place now but from the right !

It's a fallacy. Actually, it's an intellectual fraud, but I'm a nice guy, so I won't point that out. ;)

I am mightily impressed by these arguments along the lines that, since Bush has not completely balanced the budget, reduced my tax burden to zero, single-handedly ended abortion, personally sunk drilling rigs in ANWR, and vetoed every single piece of legislation sponsored by Democrats, he and his presidency are thus complete, abject failures. Either we have every single thing our little hearts desire, or Bush is a complete and total failure, or worse, a traitor to all right-thinking folks. Impeach Bush!

This notion that political reality must never be allowed to sully one's ideological purity is rather...precious. The prevalence of this curious notion among libertarians is probably why I reject the label, despite being sympathetic to the ideas therein.

I admit - I myself used to think that ideology and political principles were far too important to ever be compromised by partial steps and half-measures. Then I turned eleven and grew up a little bit ;)