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WHY do Some Americans continue to Support Bush?

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WHY do Some Americans continue to Support Bush?

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As the polls show support for Bush and Cheney falling to about the same levels as for Nixon and Agnew, I wonder the reasons for the remaining support for Bush. I have been clear as to my rational for not supporting Bush and his policies. I would be VERY interested in learning specific reasons why those of you that support Bush continue to defend him and his policies.

I will not use your answers to further attack Bush. I just want to understand why anyone continues to support him.
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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
Which poll? The one CBS issued last week that said his rating was at an "all-time, rock-bottom" low of 34%?
Or the one ABC issued THIS week, that says his popularity is "only" at 41%?

I don't like everything he does; only a totally brainwashed, robotic idealogue likes everything their leader does.
I personally like him, what can I say? I see a certain rough honesty in him, or at least as honest as a politician can be. He'll tell you how it is if he can, and not just what you want to hear.
I see a man who stands behind his decisions, no matter what the polls say, and no matter what the media says about him. That's leadership, Col. That's what he's supposed to do, and what he was elected to do; what he sees as best for the nation and it's interests, and to not waver in that goal according to what the numbers say.
Why do you think he got re-elected despite his supposed "declining popularity"? He's a leader with qualities that many of us, in the aftermath of the responsiblity-dodging, bobbing and weaving to keep everyone happy of the Clinton years, find refreshing.
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
You do not know what leadership is. A leader is one who will get people to go to a place they would not otherwise go. That is NOT Bush. He continues to move down a path where the VAST majority does NOT WANT TO GO. That is stubborn. He continues down a path even when it does not solve our problems. That is NOT a leader. The vast majority of Americans do not agree with ANY of his policies and have rejected them no matter how often Bush tell them his way is right. He thinks if he uses different words or tells us over and over again that people will agree. That is simply not true. People can see that the issues that face America are not getting better. Trade, jobs, education, border security, energy, deficit, health care and Social Security and the ability of the poor and middle income American family to improve their lives are not being resolved. They see a president that does not secure our borders and ports. The see a president that is turning his back on the people in the Gulf despite his statements ten days after the storm in New Orleans. They see a president that cuts funding for health care for the poor. Increases the cost of student loans and reduces help for the poor to heat their homes. A president that has cut funding for food to the poor and children of America. At the same time he defends BIG OIL when the overcharge ALL of us and generate a massive profit and wants to make tax cuts to his wealthy base permanent despite the massive Federal Budget deficit. They see a looser! They see a man that has turned his back on the vast majority and only cares for the Haves and the Have-Mores!
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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
What I see, Col., is a man who spends to much time listening to liberal rhetoric.
Where is this "vast majority" you're always pointing to?
It's in the minds of all the lefties who still feel hurt because they LOST.
That's all it is! They had their Clintons for eight years and thought the Glory Days were going to continue with Gore.
They were wrong, and they were pissed because they were wrong.
They were wrong again four years later, and now they're even more pissed because mainstream America (the REAL "vast majority") elected their boogeyman again! How impudent of us!

Col., you asked why I still support Bush. I told you.
I told you very calmly and clearly, with no recrimination, and you berated me in your usual manic fashion, just like you do everyone else who doesn't see things your way.

This looked like a nice, easy topic to discuss, so I discussed. It turned out just like all your other Bush-hating rants. I won't be fooled again.
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
I can hardly wait for GWB to be out of office so we will not have to listen to your hate Bush rants, you are a single issue blogger with no other writing on your mind.

I pity you and your blind hatred.
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
The sad part is that even after Bush has retired to Texas, the harm he has done to this country will linger on for a LONG time to come. The next President will inherit a big pile of Bush Dung.
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
The next President will inherit a big pile of Bush Dung.


Better than Clinton Cum. Sorry. Couldn't resist.

What, pray tell, did Clinton leave us that was so far-reaching and grand? When he left office, the economy was already starting to rot.
The USS Cole attack---unanswered. The attacks on the African Embassies---unanswered. Troops left in Eastern Europe, under UN "leadership" with no real exit strategy (Hmmm...THAT has a familiar ring, no?)....
Oh, well, yeah.....a few rich criminals who paid big bucks to the Clinton campaign got Presidentially pardoned, but.....

"Bush's Recession", as the Dems called it, of early 2001, was getting started well before he officially took office. Some of the Clinton Cum, I guess.
He'd had the benefit of 12 years of top-notch Republican leadership when he came in. Bush had eight years of Democrat screw-ups.
Sad that Clinton was able to undue 12 years hard work in less than eight.
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top
Clinton left a balanced Budget and better employment then we have today. He also left a decade of the greatest economic growth in our history. He also had an overall policy that was more toward the center more like the majority of Americans.Do not forget that Reagan did the very same thing that Bush did with the very same results-- Cut taxes and increased spending that resulted in major increases in the National debt. It took 20 years to balance the budget after Reagan.
Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
singrdave
Better read the three Blogs I sighted above.


The only post I want to read right now is your first one:

I will not use your answers to further attack Bush. I just want to understand why anyone continues to support him.


Liar liar, pants on fire...
Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have not referred to ANY of the reasons given for supporting Bush. I responded to questions posted. I was told I did not offer an alternative suggestion which is untrue.

I stated Facts and did not take issue with ANY OF THE REASONS given for supporting Bush. All you do is SPIN everything to something it is NOT!
Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top
Clinton left a balanced Budget and better employment then we have today. He also left a decade of the greatest economic growth in our history.


Let's correct that to the truth:

The economy left a balanced budget and employment levels equal to what we have today, thanks to a decade of unsustainable growth (irrational exuberance, etc.) culminating in the tech stock crash followed shortly thereafter by 9/11 and a recession which was blunted largely due to the succeeding president's dogged efforts. You should be thanking Bush, not bashing him. Clinton had the good fortune to catch one of the better waves to come along in awhile. He deludes himself if he thinks his policies were responsible for it, as do you.
Reply #36 from PolMach Forums Top
Bush is a great ChristianPresident. Itsno wonder theleftistmedia slams him. They hate anything conservativeor Godly.
Reply #37 from JoeUser Forums Top
Col, you're one of those short-sighted people who expect instant gratification, aren't you?
You think that, when policies are instituated, including economic policies, that stuff just starts to change, or not, right away. It doesn't; sometimes the effects take years to show.
Reagan warned the nation, in the early 80s, that times ahead would be tough, but that they would get better. This wasn't just a hopeful prophecy. He had the vision to know that what he was doing would be hard in the short-term, but great later on, and that was exactly what happened.
The great economic"wave", as Daiwa put it, that Clinton rode, had as much to do with his efforts as 9/11 did with Bush.
So you hated Reagan, too, huh?

You know, I remember back when you used to claim to be a conservative Republican who was simply disappointed in Bush.
Bullshit.