Who Still Supports Bush? Has he actually become the "Unifier" and unified both partie
#1
Posted 27 August 2007 - 06:18 AM
This could be what brings us together through our differences. Maybe together, Democrat and Republican, we can do something to take our country back from what is becoming a dictatorial president.
It's becoming more and more common for people to stand up and say "I'm a republican and I support the republican party but I do not support President Bush" People are realizing that support of a single person does not equal support or lack of support for the entire party.
Regardless of what party you are part of, if any at all, do you support Bush himself?
#2
Posted 27 August 2007 - 10:54 AM
There are rumblings from rank and file Dems about supporting several primary challenges against those Dems that have let the base down.
Vernon Wormer.
#3
Posted 27 August 2007 - 12:54 PM
And yes, I still support President Bush. I do not like everything he has done or stood for, but I still support the overall job he has done and think that our nation would have been worse off had we elected either Gore or Kerry.
#4
Posted 27 August 2007 - 01:12 PM
And yes, I still support President Bush. I do not like everything he has done or stood for, but I still support the overall job he has done and think that our nation would have been worse off had we elected either Gore or Kerry.
Wow. I curious though. In what way, specifically, would the nation be "worse off" had Gore or Kerry been elected?
Later...Shawn
#5
Posted 27 August 2007 - 01:16 PM
Wow. I curious though. In what way, specifically, would the nation be "worse off" had Gore or Kerry been elected?
Later...Shawn
I believe that our economy would have suffered to a greater extent, I believe that our taxes would have gown by leaps and bounds, I think that we would have suffered another terrorist attack and I think our international credibility would have diminished. I'm not saying I'm right, that's just what I believe.
#6
Posted 27 August 2007 - 04:38 PM
There are rumblings from rank and file Dems about supporting several primary challenges against those Dems that have let the base down.
Go CINDY!
Bon Appetit!
#7
Posted 27 August 2007 - 05:57 PM
Let's remember that our Democratic-lead Congress has approval rating below that of our President.
And yes, I still support President Bush. I do not like everything he has done or stood for, but I still support the overall job he has done and think that our nation would have been worse off had we elected either Gore or Kerry
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I believe that our economy would have suffered to a greater extent, I believe that our taxes would have gown by leaps and bounds, I think that we would have suffered another terrorist attack and I think our international credibility would have diminished. I'm not saying I'm right, that's just what I believe.
I agree.... and voted yes, I support Mr. Bush, the seated President of the USA.
#8
Posted 27 August 2007 - 07:02 PM
I agree.... and voted yes, I support Mr. Bush, the seated President of the USA.
I am not happy with the job Bush has done. I voted for him twice and would not again if I could. That said, I still support him as the leader of our country. I wish him no harm, and believe that for at least part of his terms that he did what he felt was right in his heart. I have respected the office since I was small, whether I liked the office holder or not. Hope that makes sense.
I honestly haven't been happy with any choices we have had for president since Reagan. I am a registered Repub, but find myself leaning more and more toward a Libertarian/Constitutional angle.
Supporting Dems or Repubs makes less sense each year I am alive.
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each anothers audience
Outside the gilded cage
#10
Posted 27 August 2007 - 07:43 PM
and I think our international credibility would have diminished.
Hey Ichabod Crane, a few dozen countries stopped liking us over the last 8 years. You musta been napping.
- Thomas Paine
www.cafepress.com/totherepublic
#11
Posted 27 August 2007 - 08:48 PM
Hey Ichabod Crane, a few dozen countries stopped liking us over the last 8 years. You musta been napping.
Like who gives a flyin' ****.
Our new friend from France is getting into the bomb Iran mode. Bout time the euros woke up and realized they have a major threat.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3442638,00.html
PS: I support W. Not in agreement with how the war was approached. I've said it many tines before, your Social Security will not be there when you will need it. Should have passed it.
But this weakling demo/Congress think they haved the pulse of the nation. It's great to see the Dem's hacking away at each other. Look at the Florida Primary mess! They finally let John Dean out from Lock and Key!
They consider the Gonzales resigning a major, major victory. Wait till how inept they are during the confirmation hearings. Remember what fools they made of themselves during the Alito and Roberts hearings?? It was hilarious and sad to watch Ed Kennedy & Co blithering.
#12
Posted 27 August 2007 - 10:05 PM
The tragedy of 9/11/2001 represents a tragically lost opportunity. Instead of being used to unify this country and much of the world, as the Pearl Harbor tragedy was two generations ago, it was followed shorty afterward with a huge push to attack anyone and anything that questioned official policy. Consequently, we have threads where people attack each other purely based on their political beliefs. This is the kind of division that, when left out of control, results in an internally divisive situation like the one currently being experienced by the people of Iraq.
We are all Americans, yet too many view their fellow countrymen and women as enemies. This is not acceptable. Whether we are Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, isn't the issue. The issue is what is best for ALL of us.
The flame wars that constantly erupt here are proof positive of just how far our country has fallen as a direct result of the policies of hate.
- Andrew Jackson, in his Farewell Address, 1837
#13
Posted 27 August 2007 - 10:56 PM
I believe that our economy would have suffered to a greater extent, I believe that our taxes would have gown by leaps and bounds, I think that we would have suffered another terrorist attack and I think our international credibility would have diminished. I'm not saying I'm right, that's just what I believe.
Which specifi policies or actions would Kerry, for example, have enacted over the last 4 years that would have lead to these things happening (although, I'm sure you realize that they already have to a very large extent).
Later...Shawn
#14
Posted 27 August 2007 - 11:33 PM
Bush had the opportunity to unite this country after 9/11 by invading Afghanistan to pursue and capture Bin Laden and to free the Afghani people from the Taliban (never mind that we had pumped millions into the Taliban's coffers prior to 9/11). I've been on this message board long enough to remember that most of us were in support of Bush's pursuit of Bin Laden.
Then it freaking fell apart with Iraq and the quagmire that they knowingly stepped into for all the wrong reasons.
Then Abu Ghiraib. And Guantanamo and the history lesson of why our country has held a moral high ground on such matters seems to be not learned and/or not worthy anymore to many people.
And it has fallen apart faster and deeper, nationally and economically, than many people could have imagined. When folks here say that if Kerry or Gore had been elected that taxes would have increased... We are billions in debt because of this war and the only way that those billions will be dealt with is taxation, deprivation of basic human needs and rights, and worse.
And all along, the smokescreen to lure conservative voters was the sanctity of heterosexual marriage, the 'dangers' of the 'homosexual agenda'... anything to bring in that vote. Today, another senator is found out, a senator who thumped on the sanctity of marriage and the anti-homosexual agenda and as far back as 1982 was on the FBI's radar for his closeted and drug activities. The hypocrisy of people like Larry Craig is sickening. Instead of being out and OK with himself, he supports and presses a hateful agenda to seemingly deflect suspicion instead of just coming out and being who he is. And in doing so, he does much more harm than good.
Nationally, there are many gay elected officials on the local, regional, state, and national level who are elected and re-elected by mainstream voters. There is no excuse for a closeted person to purposely vote against homosexual rights to hide their own sexuality by being vehemently opposed to deflect suspicion. And it is an affront to those who wouldn't vote for someone who is homosexual by lying to them. They should be given the choice. Why? Because they might change their mind and broaden their opinions. And if they don't want to, they would at least have the honest choice.
There is just so much 'do as I say' and 'not as I do' going around on both sides, there seemingly isn't ANY side to embrace. The Dems fell flat in their promise to 'elect us and we will change things' and I don't see one presidential candidate who inspires any kind of real confidence and optimism.
This post has been edited by harv1: 27 August 2007 - 11:41 PM
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#15
Posted 27 August 2007 - 11:51 PM
New flash, Milton. Had Al Gore been in the White House he would have continued with former president Bill Clinton's policies on tracking terrorism. 911 might have been thwarted or minimized.
I'm see that you are a typical republican live high on the hog and let your children and granchildren pay for it with interst.
Al least John Kerry got shot at in Vietnam while Bush was doing shots. He would have seen the troops got the supplies and armor they needed to complete their mission in Iraq.
But go ahead dream your little Rush dreams about our great and fearless leader. The master of disaster in the frog pond. Exploding frogs with firecrackers shoved down their throats sounds like a republicans wet dream.
Vernon Wormer.







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