Just wondering... many Republicans think we should stand behind our leader no matter what...unless that leader is Democratic, because when Clinton was in office... what they did makes the Bush bashing look like a walk in the park...\n\nI'm just saying don't complain when you did it too... I didn't complain when you bashed Clinton.. it's a free country and he made some mistakes... granted...
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Great question! Those who answered hypocracy were right on target. \nWasting 42 million dollars on an investigation that turned up nothing but a private affair was a huge waste. It wasn't near as wasteful as the billions spent on a useless war. Could you imagine what a 42 million dollar investigation would turn up if we investigated Bush's business deals with the energy cartel?\nWhen Clinton lied, nobody died.
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Oh! plese stop with the Bush bashing.Bush was'nt even president when American troops were sent in,it was Clinton and it was'nt for an Invation it was because:\n\nSrebrenica, a small Bosniak enclave on the border of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia Montenegro, was the scene for some of the worst gendercide and genocide(there was an ethnic cleansing being done) in modern Europe. \nThat is why NATO and the US sent in troops to quell the war that was going on between muslims and christians.\n\nIt was'nt an invation, Bush has invaded too much i guess...that even when American's were sent in the past to help.You think it was an invasion by Bush senior.(to my predessor)\nAmerica accomplished what it was sent out to do,that was to maintain peace.It did,America was'nt always a bully.
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I lean to the right however it is not cut and dry. Frankly I think if Bush is the best the republicans can come up with and Kerry is the best the democrats can come up with then maby we are in trouble. I don't hate Bush by no means, in fact if you read my answers you will find that I spend alot of time defending him. I think it is kinda like at work how everybody complains about the boss and thinks they can do a better job. Here is my attempt to answer your question; It basically comes down to democrat or republican when you vote. So even if you don't agree with everything one or the other is doing you have to figure what is the most important for you and support that. For instance I am passionatly against gun control and abortion so voting for a democrat is probably not going to happen, unless the republcans were pro something that I felt even more passion for. My next point is people who agree with somethings and not others usually feel so strongly about that one thing that it clouds there judgment on everything else. For example anti-war liberals who think the president is violating our civil liberties by tapping phones and emails. They can't get over the fact that they hate the war and so there for they hate Bush and any and everything he says or does. They fail to realize the lengths past presidents have gone to during a time of war. Lincoln had a man who was running for office in the north deported and shipped to the south. Think about the violation there. Prevented the process of a free election. He is widly reguarded as one of the best Presidents of all time. So as I sit here knowing that my dislike of liberals is strongly polerized to the right I have to say it is because I feel so strongly about some core issues.
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Nothing is wrong with criticizing Mr Bush. We can disagree or agree with anyone! It is free speech! \n\nIt is sad that the Conservatives have turned disagreement in to anti-patriotism
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I know!  I've noticed that too.  Most of the people I know HATE Bush, his ratings are low, and the Congress that supports him had a recent 16% approval rating.  I even know some moderate Republicans that voted Democrat this year.\n\nYet people still say that "liberals are idiots" and "Bush is great."  Don't they realize that most of America and practically ALL of the world disagree with them?  Yet they still act all high and mighty.\n\nQuite a god complex they have, isn't it?\n\nBUSH SUCKS!!
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Clinton was a far better president in a CEO sense, I have always said he was set up, or why would Monika blab to somebody that she knew didn't like him and why would she keep the dress. \n  To answer your question, yes republicans are loyal to Bush, regardless of his short comings they defend him like he was the flag. However if they were capable of looking at the facts and forming their own answer they would find Bush as incompetant as we do. He has cost to many American lives to be anything other then a criminal.
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I agree with your general statement. I am a self-proclaimed democrat. However, I find that I agree with many republican political views. I wish that things weren't so black and white and people were more receptive to others views. I really feel badly when republicans say how they hate "liberal whiners" because even though I consider myself liberal, I'm not so liberal and open minded that my brains have fallen out. I can see when the democrat reps are in the wrong. I can admit when republicans may have a better idea. We all need to reach our hand out to each other and embrace our differences and also our similarities.
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You make an excellent point. The Republicans I know are naively believing that Bush is a Christian and blessed by God. They pray for him and give thanks for him. No use telling them the reality. Oh, they are quite quick to denigrate Clinton, but they look at you strange when you say that Bush has done more to globalize this country than any other president. He has plunged this country into obscene debt. He has thrown out the Bill of Rights by making the Patriot Act supersede it. He attacked Iran for better access to the oil and lied to the American public that it was to take out weapons of mass destruction. This neo fascist who is guided by his fathers men, is fully committed to a communitarian world. Don't be surprised if this man declares martial law before his term is up. He and the men behind him don't want to give up the power. They want to stay in office for the good of the country as they see the good of the country. I think that is one of the reasons the movie V for Vendetta hit a chord with the American public. Bush is a  huge failure and has brought us to the brink of a crushing depression. Personally, I cannot stand to listen to his lying lips.
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Frist I like to say that people are people, and people make misstakes, and 2nd you should never takes on a side of a "party". Some people who like Bush do not think he is perfect[like me]. But people get binded, ther think that if they say that someone that they subport does wrong that there will look like a fool too. No one like to look that way, so we put on a front. That is why peole piont on Clinton so we do not look so bad.
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that's a good question....Bush Sr. was criticized for cutting and running by the democrats and now they want Jr. too do the same...damned if ya do damned if ya don't politics
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The vehemence with which the "loyal" opposition has opposed George Bush from the moment he won the nomination to the very present is not in any way normal behavior for a group or class of people. It seems to me there is a link-step mentality at play whereby no righteous democrat can admit the right of President Bush to his office. This is a dangerous thing. This hatred has tainted the entire country aided by the media and the talking heads of the left as they spread the notion that Bush is not  legitimate. People who do not analyze the source or content of the news they receive take it at face value and their perception is skewed against Bush, the War in Iraq, and just about anything else the democrats in their angry rant to regain power broadcast against the President. These same individuals then are not just cry babies-- twice defeated by what they consider unfair elections-- they're a dangerous element in an open society where dissent is meant to have some purpose or reason other than vindication and self-aggrandizement. Should the democrats regain power in the next election, you can be sure the same people who did not fairly consider what they saw or read will rue the day. I believe that, for all of this hate, which must affect him, President Bush has been a "President of all the people," one who does not kowtow to pundits or polls, but knows in his own mind what to do for the people who he truly serves.
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First of all, I like it when Republicans finally stand up and call liberals on the crazy things that they do (not all liberals,but MANY). However, is this really a question or just a statement ? Although I agree, I can't tell you why Democrats are like that.
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It is hard to get a conservatives who is taught to do as they are told and to stand by their father figure regardless of ones actions. The other reason is fear for their career. You have to point out that these republicans today in the White House are not the good old boy republicans like Eisenhower who had a slogan, 'Vote for Peace", "Vote for Eisenhower". That is all you can do, point out that these are not real republicans.
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Clinton did not disgrace anyone, but his wife, Monica and himself.  \n\nI am not ashamed of him at all.  I've always said he should have chosen me to f*ck, I am not a blabbermouth and then the country would have been richer and more at peace today because repugs ( the haters of sex) would not have gone out to vote. And I wish he'd still choose me now!\n\n\nYou're right other presidents did the same thing, but their indiscretions were kept off the news. \n\nAnd again you're right we libs will respond that Bush is a Nazi, a moron,  a lover of human blood, a thug, a thief, Hitler re-incarnate, a puppet and a grinning imbecile and all repugs are JUST LIKE HIM!!
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please it is president Clinton, and though people are going to say it is just politics it is the same issue. if it is wrong now it was wrong then.  if anything there has always been a double standard between Democrats and Republicans.  people are screaming about an illegal war can not remember president Clinton asking congress for any wars he got us in. but you have president Bush who did go to congress.
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Actually, I suspect it is pretty much as it has been for most of our history.  A little research shows name-calling, rumor-mongering, "guilty until proven innocent" attitudes, and LOTS of whining about losing elections all through our history.\n\nFortunately, enough of us remember NOT to do these things, to instead disagree and dissent, even protest without rancor or undermining our own country and elected officials for political power. \n\nSome people did it to President Clinton, and claimed to be Republicans.  Now a bunch of Democrats do it and claim they represent all Democrats.  \n\nI'd call it silly, but it's really seditious.\n\nSome of us, including Democrats like myself, believe in what President Bush (and President Clinton before him) do because we know more about the complexities of the world.  For instance: my family left Islam before I was born.  Even back then they saw that Islam was making a push at world domination.  We are all still amazed at how many people just don't get that President Bush just pre-empted them before they were powerful enough to do it rather than wait and hope the world would band together in time.  Bush will go down as a villian, but he might have saved us all.\nPresident Clinton had access to the same information.  That's why he bombed Saddam more than once.\nWe're like children watching a board game, complaining about how the players aren't moving the pieces in the right direction, keep forgetting to jump other pieces, don't ever seem to crown their pieces correctly when they reach the far end of the board, and complain about how lousy the players are at playing checkers.\n\nWhile the players, patiently trying to explain, some giving up, some playing on the children's confusion to confuse them further and get their support, continue to play chess.\n\nWe're like that way too often.\n\nDon't follow blindly, but don't follow the opposition blindly, either.  Educate each other about all sides of an issue.
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It the far left that's bashing Bush. I admire GWB because he sticks to his decisions. We are in a war for our survival and the Republicans know this and they will do what it takes to protect America. The liberal cry babies worry about out civil liberties and if we will offend the rest of the world and our enemies. Clinto could have gotten Bin Laden but chose not to (why?). Bush is the man in the right place at the right time.