So how many rats are still on the sinking ship?

watching the Republican party implode has been an enormous joy to watch recently. I'm not surprised, it's been coming for a long while.

But with all the lies, the hate, the bile, the sheer litany of shit that makes up the life blood of this administration, I'm just wondering how many brain dead idiots still support this scumbag?

Darkstryke, sure. But he's got rabies.
Dayton still on board.

Let's have a show of grubby hands.

Meh, bush is bad but it could have been worse...

Bush's policies haven't worked out, but nothing the Democrats have offered is any better.

Beleive me, I'd rather have a different president in office and the war in Iraq handled better, but nothing the Dems have said instills me with the confidence that they have the brains or the brawn to fix the problems in any event.

I didn't like either candidates at all, so at the time I voted for what I thought was to be the lesser of evils. Now I know there is no such things as the lesser of evils.

Cthulu agrees!

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Just shout out Hastur Hastur Hastur why don't you?

Fix? Right now I think I'd settle for not making it any worse.

I didn't really care for him in the first place, but still voted for him over the democrat alternatives. I just regret that there weren't any better choices. I mean the election was the democrats to lose in 2004 and they still lost it.

I support Bush's goals in many things, his policies on some things, and oppose his goals on some things, and his policies on others. I've never agreed with him about the way he's run FEMA or his stance on illegal immigration. I supported and still think geopolitically removing Hussein was the right thing to do - but obviously Rummy thinking he knew better than the War College was sheer imbecility on the admin's part. I think his policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan are right on, to this day.

I am fairly conservative but I have never been a Republican. I've been registered "Undecided" since I was 18, because, frankly, there is no political party out there I feel is anything I want to completely support.

Bush has been a mixed bag...like most presidents. A lot has been blown out of proportion by the opposition. Some has been as bad as advertised. I think the ridiculous extremes of both sides over this one man is silly. Much he is blamed for he has no direct control over anyway. There is plenty of guilty parties, of all political stripes to blame in Washington.

As for all the lies, the hate, the bile, the sheer litany of shit...that description equally applies to both Republicans and Democrats. The whole political system is a cess pit recently.

Well, pretty much the sole problem with politics today is parties. Abolish them for good is whats best.

Support is much more issue driven than person driven

Like Joe Lieberman, I agree with Bush on foreign policy but little else. Surely not on illegal immigration nor anything domestic.

YOU MUST WADE IN AND TAKE A SWIG, OR ELSE YOU HATE AMERICA.

I thought about voting for myself, but then I realized that that guy is a total bastard who would probably starve out half of the country while razing the other half to the ground.

Yep...registering with a party only serves to validate them.

Always have, still do.

Why?

Bush isn't a republican anymore than spacialdink is a democrat. Bush is a fundie, theres a big difference.

I selected the first option.

Admittedly, Bush hasn't been everything I'd hoped for, but, given the chance, I still wouldn't change my vote in 2000 or 2004.

Why?

I'll bet you that the really interesting bit here will be not so much how few support him now, but how many suddenly recall that they did not support him in the first place.

Only in 2000 did I vote for Bush. And so many of the 2004 hopefuls could have won my vote in 2004, but the choice the Democratic Party made for their candidate begged me to vote 3rd party.

Name a few likely suspects and let's see what's what.

2000: Because I was sick of Clinton's policies and Gore just offered more of the same.

2004: Because the Democrats offered me Kerry who ran on a 30 year old war record and not his Senate record. Three Purple Hearts is great, but doesn't offset a secret plan for fixing the war and the economy, but I couldn't be told the details of until after Kerry was elected.

In both cases, Bush was the lesser of two evils and both times I voted for Bush it wasn't because I liked him, but because I was voting against the Democrats.

I just wish I could get a candidate that I could truly get behind and not figure isn't as bad as the other guy. Right now, that's Ron Paul or Mike Huckabee, but neither have a chance of getting to Nov. '08.

^Thank you. Reasoned response.

I don't see the other two offering anything other than "I did 'cause I did and I'd do it again 'cause I'd do it again."

What turned me off about President Bush during the original campaign was that he'd went AWOL (which has since been debunked) and his stance on abortion and religion. What turned me off of Al Gore was his extremeist enviromental views as it seemed to me that he'd do whatever he could to stifle the market to protect the enviroment. I feel there needs to be a balance between the enviroment and the market, too much of either would be bad. I'm more of a conservationist in that I'm not opposed to the land's resources being used.

I would've much rather had Bob Dole. He was someone I respected more simply because he was a veteran and seemed to be more rational on things than either of those two.

As the cause of Dendroica blowing the back of his own skull away with a double-ought buck shotgun at Ground Zero shortly after the election, I have supported Bush more than ever before.

Rather a single fool than a party of fools.

And if you found out he didn't, you'd get in your Wayback Machine and change your vote, wouldn't ya, Sparky?

Voting as Vengeance - it's the Wordforge Way.

Yeah, there's no option for "I didn't support him in '00, but I rallied behind him just after 9/11, but he fucked it all up, and I was back to hating him in '04".

Cleanly saying I NEVER supported him non-stop is a lie, much as I'd like it to be true.