P-o-Phile,
you will never convince the con---vinced (legion----are you listening?) that Bush wasn't the greatest thing to come along since peanut-butter.....
I've had these debates before, with some very hardcore conservative friends of mine who never even knew Bush before he started his run for the presidency.
The only thing they (thought) knew was he was reportedly a great governor in Texas (where I live). Hardly.
He is, and still is, a less than intelligent person. A frat boy at best.
He has never, ever, had the peoples' best interest in mind, before or after 9/11/01.
In the community I live in, we fought a hostile takeover (annexation) by the City of Houston while Dubya was governor.
In this community of 67,000, we have nearly 80% conservative or Republican voting people. HIS people.
What was his reply when we asked for help against this takeover???
"I'm too busy running for president", (although he hadn't even started his official run).
In other words, he didn't give a "rat's a**" about our plight, much less anything else that didn't directly benefit him.
My conservative (out of state) friends were shocked to hear of this, even to the point of disbelief, however it is true.
Jeb Bush was the best Bush for the job, and his dad admitted as much.
Dubya is and always was an idiot, ---he only got the office because of Rove and his underhanded manipulating of the hysterical (evangelical) right. Who did he put in his cabinet and critical administration positions? Most of his father's former cabinet. He couldn't even bring in fresh faces, just a repeat of Ford, Reagan, and his dad's former government.
Conservatives never admit their mistakes, never take responsibility for their mistakes, never take others' (read: opposition) opinions for something that might be a positive for the country, and when cornered----continually bring up something Clinton did......Clinton? It's always, "Well, Clinton did this, or Clinton did that, when he was in office...." So what? Does that really make it right?
They preach fiscal responsibility, but spend money like it was water in the Mississippi River.
The preach religious freedom, but only when it goes along with their evangelical nuttiness.
They preach smaller government, but want to regulate your own person choices in your own bedroom.
They preach "no governmental intrusion", but they advocate such abominations as the Patriot Act and the taking of your land for commercial interests.
In short, they are hypocrites at best, liars at their worst.
regards---rhjames
