Why are republicans hypersensitive to any criticism regarding Bush?
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I'd have to say given that most Dems were so quick to go to bat for an adulterer that it is refreshing that Americans are willing to stand up for a stand up kind of guy.\n\nWe don't mind constructive criticism, it's the same old, tired party rhetoric that gets frustrating. I just wonder how many anti-Bush people actually voted.
725439
I'm not a Republican myself, but I know several people who are deeply upset that their party is responsible for causing so much harm.  The problem is, they're not too thrilled with the alternatives either.\n\nPeople who still support Bush, at this point, are either painfully ignorant or pathologically delusional.  Maybe they're caught up in the gamesmanship of it; it's like rooting for a sports team and they'll keep rooting for their team no matter what, without thought. Or maybe they're motivated by hate and fear.  Or maybe they were raised with certain alliegances and now they would feel disloyal if they changed.\n\nBottom line is, they're misinformed, uninformed, prejudiced or just plain stupid.
817828
Oh, there's nothing wrong with Republicans. Not real ones, anyway. The Republican Party of today has been infected with a problem: not Conservatism, but extreme Conservatism. It's only the Neocons, as they are also called, who still support Bush, depsite everything he has done, or lacked to do. It's not Cons I have a problem with, it's sheep.
449304
While I have some concerns about some of the actions initiated by the President Bush (such as some elements of the Patriot Act) but by and large he is a dedicated and sincere President.\n\nI say this though I have never supported him in an election, but I make a distinction between such reservations and the blatant, unsubstantiated assertions made about the President.  I have no doubt that there are those who want a different president, that is obvious with the virulent yelling of hatred which is so often seen here.  However, I suggest that those who sincerely want a change that there should get involved with political actions which will lead to such change.  To do that is an act of a mature person.  To continue to scream hatred is childish and ineffectual.
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I am sick of people saying that they hate Bush but they don't have any reason for it. Or that Democrats will ruin America, but don't have any reason for it.\n\nI do, however enjoy intelligent political discussion because it challenges the mind and it very much impacts our daily lives.
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HE LEFT THE QUESTION TOTALLY OPEN TO DEFEND BUSH ANY WAY YOU CAN... TALK ABOUT ANY GOOD POINT...\n\nYOU APPEAR, FOR THE MOST PART, TO BE HAIVNG PROBLEMS DOING IT (GRANTED, HE MAY HAVE CALLED THEM LIES, BUT IT'S STILL AN OPEN FORUM)... I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WOULD HAVE PROBLEMS...\n\nI SWEAR TO GOD I COULD DEFEND HIM BETTER THAN HIS FANS DO ON HERE... GEEZ!
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It is much more a reflection on our society than an objective criticism of his policies.\n\nMany people criticize him for the strength of his Christian values, many of which he holds to be true and right in all cases, regardless of any mitigating factors.  This absolutism is as frustrating to the open-minded intellectual types of this nation as the relativism of the Clinton era was to the more conservative sectors of the population.\n\nBecause of his strongly-held convictions, the liberal-minded of the American populace distrusts him and portrays him as a tyrranical individual, just as the previous President was painted by the conservatives as spineless because of his seeming lack of absolute convictions.\n\nAll the debate that rages over the current President has less to do with actual policy dispute and more with the underlying old political question:\n-       Is a politician supposed to vote how he or she believes or how the majority of their constituency would vote?\n\nBecause much of the criticism about President Bush is due to his closely-held beliefs, our grandparents (who often held the same beliefs just as strongly, or maybe even more so) would be pleased with him - they tended to respect a politician who did what he or she believed was right more so than one who voted how the "folks back home" would like.  After all, didn't our grandparents coin the word "pandering" to describe this?
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And the Bush haters still don't get it....good try though.\n\nYou can not educate a liberal, their mind is made up and nothing you say or do will ever make them think for themselves.\n\nClinton could have had sex with an eight year old on CNN and they wouldn't change their mind "it's a republican conspiracy."
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I have said it 100 times on here it seems like and I will continue to until these questions stop. There are people on here who are on the left who call Bush and Republicans names on a daily basis and they get up in arms when some one on the right acts like they do. \n\nShe says some absolutely outrageous things, but so does Al Franken, Bill Mahrer, Howard Dean, and Al Gore. Don't be a hypocrite.
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It's simple.\n\nBush and his gang think they are above the law and above reproach. That everything they do is perfect and proper. Bush himself has said he has never made any mistakes. It's a combination of arrogance and entitlement. Not to mention a bit of megalomania.
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It is a knee jerk reaction from the liberals to hate President Bush;)\n\nThough I do not like everything my President is doing, I do like him and I know he is a good Christian man doing the best he can in a very difficult job.
77696
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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That's an easy. President Bush has screwed up over and over, but the Republicans don't see it that way. It has been proved time after time that Bush is a screw up, but yet Democrats and others get blamed. So to answer your question, it's all just a game that Politicians play with the people and as always they fall for it. It's easier to blame someone else than to admit your an idiot to the people.
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No. I feel that his cronies and his staff do. Bush is merely a puppet. His cronies pull his strings and Bush moves to their whims. He is at fault because as the head man he should be asking questions and I don't think he is bright enough to do this. In fact, his stupidity is what made him appealing to the Republican party. He is a mindless puppet who marches to do whatever his cronies want. He is not bright enough to ask questions or know what questions to ask.
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If you don't want someone to defend Bush, then don't ask questions about Bush.  Just because someone doesn't agree with you politically or otherwise, does not make them an idiot.  Except in your own mind.
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It's just one of many reasons why people are fed up.  Bush and his cabinet have lied to us too many times, telling us Republicans are opposed to big government and big spending but spending more than all of the Democrats of this century put together.  They've done their best to take away our rights and freedoms in the name of "family values", a transparent code phrase for fascism.  Fascists and other totalitarian love to talk about "family" and "patriotism" to make it more difficult for their opponents to vote against them, but intelligent voters can see through the smoke and mirrors and see that they don't care about families.  They don't care about anyone but themselves and their precious overblown military/industrial complex.\n\nBy the way, I think it's tragic that it took so many voters six years to figure out that the government was headed down the wrong path.  I knew we were in trouble the moment Bush took office, and that's not based on anti-Republican bias.  The man is a moron and I would have voted against him no matter which party he represented.
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Their arguments lack objectivity and facts.\n\nWhat's so special about life?  The way republicans treat life out of the womb, and care about people who are hungry and needy, or children with no homes or medical care...I'd say they don't think too much about life.\n\nYou just need to be devoid of all logic, have a simple narrow world model where no actions have any secondary consequences, be willing to think like a total hypocrite, and then it all makes perfect sense.