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yes, lots of problems, I wonder why?
Originally posted by spacedoubt
dgtempe, I honestly believe GW is a good man, with a lot of troubles facing him at the moment, and the DEMS are HOPING he fails..I have a problem with that..Thats what bothers me the most, like vultures, waiting to pounce on a failure, or setback..
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Originally posted by marg6043
Why people vote for bush? Very simple they do it because of political affiliation and faithfulness to their political parties let's not forget tradition.
They will stand by their political parties candidates even if is moronic like bush.
Can anybody blame them for these?
Most people actually vote for their parties not the candidate.
And this is my opinion, thank you very much.
Originally posted by oppodeldoc
After observing and participating in numerous ugly flame wars on this subject over the past few days, I actually think the answer to this is somewhat simpler. In a nutshell, this country is filled with really good-hearted, well-meaning people who want little more than the ability to live their lives the way it's always been lived. That is true in all walks of life, whether you are a right-wing gun owning bible thumper living in Alabama or a bleeding heart dope-smoking pinko from Oregon. There are so many types of people that a list like this is kind of useless from a political standpoint.
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I think most people who vote for Bush are simply unable and unwilling to allow themselves to believe that their leaders are wrong or evil or would ever lie to them on purpose. Without getting into specifics I'll say that no intelligent human being can possibly ignore the mountain of evidence that the contrary is true. Nevertheless, Americans are like children that need to be patted on the head and told "Everything will be fine, just let us take care of it" and that is why Bush is winning. He's much better at convincing the people that nothing is wrong, that we will be safe and nothing will change if you just leave him alone.
The price for this kind of ignorant trust will visit us on our very doorsteps if it is allowed to continue, but I wish I knew how to change it.
Originally posted by jupiter869
Group 5: The uneducated
Unfortunately, this is a group that is growing in this country. They get their information from television and make their judgments based on an MTV rooted pop-culture. Their skills at listening are limited, so when a candidate can sum up his campaign in quick slogans like �You�re either with us of against us.�, or �You know where I stand�, their ability to identify with the candidate is reinforced. Even though no information is gleaned by these one-liners, the mental engram is planted. Speeches of more than five minutes are lost. People in this group easily become bored and when they hold the television remote in their hand, this means death to those that bore them. Information beyond the first line is bounced off this group, or the channel is changed. The candidate with a line he can put in their head is the one who will get their vote. To really listen to a candidate speaking with an adult vocabulary is simply overwhelming and is seen as pretentious, uppity and above all, boring. Is it exciting? Is it catchy? Is it boring? These questions will determine who this group will support.
Not everyone falls strongly into one of these groups. However, those that do will support a candidate who appears to support their niche(s).
Originally posted by jupiter869
With all the information out about George W Bush, I couldn't really understand why people are supporting him. But now I have a theory that the country is divided into a number of groups. In general, REGARDLESS OF WHAT A CANDIDATE SAYS OR WHAT HIS POLICIES ARE, people will vote one way or another strictly based upon what group they fall into.
Originally posted by RRROBB
As a former Republican I can tell you why I will never vote for a Republican again.....
1) the Millions spent in 8 years by the Republican party to to prove that
Clinton got a B***JOB.
2) the Starr investigation started out looking at Hillary and ended up impeaching Clinton for lieing about sex.
3) only mean, evil, vindictive types would have done this and they will never get my vote
when you set out to ruin a man any way you can because he is with the "other party" then there is something wrong
Opp,
I read the first part of this and thought; wow maybe I was wrong�.then I got to the bottom part and all I could think of was a joke my father used to say when he saw someone do something not so bright. Something about; if his brains were gasoline he couldn�t power an ant�s go-cart around the inside of a cheerio�..man, did I have a good laugh; thanks I thought I was having a bad day until then.
Originally posted by oppodeldoc
I think most people who vote for Bush are simply unable and unwilling to allow themselves to believe that their leaders are wrong or evil or would ever lie to them on purpose. Without getting into specifics I'll say that no intelligent human being can possibly ignore the mountain of evidence that the contrary is true.
Originally posted by Muaddib
Can Bush be wrong in some issues? sure he can, just like anyone else, is he evil? no. This coming from a republican.
You are trying to tie together "being intelligent if you don't vote for Bush for the supposed reasons you are giving".... *shakes head*
It is really sad that you think like this and it shows how naive you are... BTW those people that follow Hollywood's propaganda are mostly democrats or liberals if you didn't know...
Most people who will vote for Kerry either don't remember what he has said in the past, or they don't care that he keeps changing his mind in pretty much every issue... Most of these people hate Bush based on misconceptions and lies that have been spoon fed by people like Moore and by Kerry's flip-flops.
You don't want to listen to me then do a search yourself and find out what the whole world was saying about Bush and what democrats were agreeing with before this administration took office and did what had to be done and was on everyone's mind.
Now the world is looking for a scapegoat and is immaturely pointing the finger at the present US administration, and at it's president, forgetting they themselves were the ones who brought this information to the public (the wmd in Iraq and Saddam's help to Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups) and that the whole world was saying something had to be done with Saddam even if it meant going to war....