Reply #7: He campaigned like a moderate and then lucked out [View All]

[Warpy]

with a terrible attack. As people rallied around the putz, I kept repeating "Good people can be wrong, good people can be wrong, good people.." It got me through the next miserable four years.

Then things started to happen: the intrusion into the Schiavo case, the publication of the Downing Street minutes, the outing of Plame, the tracing of the anthrax mailings to Ft. Detrick, and worst of all, the aftermath of Katrina. Good people all over the country started to realize they'd been afraid of the wrong thing, that the true anti American attack was happening right in their own back yard, not directed from across the planet.

The 24% (probably 5% lower) that are left are divided among the corrupt, the delusional and the stupid. There still might be a few good people among those last two groups, but they don't get any quarter from me when I'm discussing the colossal disaster their party has brought upon this country, not for the last six years but for the last thirty eight.

I strive to eliminate the "you" word from my posts, which helps to eliminate ad hominem attacks that only push these people into even more of a defensive position. As the delusional address reality and the stupid are educated and only the corrupt are left, this could change.

In the meantime, I'd still rather see these people than be these people, so I generally ignore them unless they get in my face. Then I educate them without mercy.