Molly Ivins: Clueless people love Bush

[Dudley_DUright]

Oh, you sweet, innocent, carefree citizens in non-swing states. You have no idea how much fun and slime you are missing.

In the swingers, wolves stalk us mercilessly (as the pro-wolf lobby points out indignantly, no one has ever been killed by wolves on U.S. soil, but try arguing that in the face of the relentless new TV ad campaign). Breaking news everywhere -- 380 tons of high explosives in Iraq left unattended, stock market down to year's low, leading economic indicators down, more tragedy in Iraq, the Swift Boat Liars are back, more Halliburton scandal, George Tenet says the war in Iraq is "wrong" -- it feels like you're dodging meteorites here in the Final Days.

Actually, the best evidence suggests we need to slow way down and go way back, because far from being able to take in anything new, it turns out many of our fellow citizens, especially Bush supporters, are stuck like bugs in amber in some early misperceptions that have never been cleared up.

It seems the majority of Bush supporters, according to recent polls, still believe Saddam Hussein had ties to Al Qaeda and even to 9-11, and that the United States found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Many of you are asking how that could possibly be, since everybody knows...

But everybody doesn't know. There it is. And if you are wondering why everybody doesn't know, you can either blame it on the media, always a shrewd move, or take notice that the administration is STILL spreading this same misinformation.

more...

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17962

[BOSSHOG]

1. Ignorant, white trash lemmings

who, for some reason, are too proud to admit they are wrong and are being duped. They will march to the polls on 2 November and vote for bush as ordered, and as they do so they will be voting against their best interests. Fortunately for them, bush will be defeated and they won't have to harass us in about five months telling us how great the draft will be for America; almost as great as another tax break for millionaires; but not quite as great as the privatization of Social Security. limbaugh and the fascists already have the talking points lined up. It must really suck being a "conservative."

[Skittles]

3. I've tried to figure it out

I live in Texas, republican hell, and I work with and know highly educated people who absolutely support Bush. My coworkers STILL BLAME THE ECONOMY ON CLINTON. How many years can this blame go? They are also all gung-ho for the war in Iraq even though not one of them has spent one day in the military. I cannot tell you how sick it makes me feel.

[nosmokes]

2. but look here, the disconnect

Eighty-seven percent of Bush supporters think he favors putting labor and environmental standards into international trade agreements. Eighty percent of Bush supporters believe Bush wants to participate in the treaty banning landmines. Seventy-six percent of Bush supporters believe Bush wants to participate in the treaty banning nuclear weapons testing. Sixty-two percent believe Bush would participate in the International Criminal Court. Sixty-one percent believe Bush wants to participate in the Kyoto Treaty on global warming. Fifty-three percent does not believe Bush is building a missile defense system, a.k.a. "Star Wars."

so no matter how ya slice it, the people that are voting for the sqWorm have no clue what they're actually voting for. and if you confront them with these facts, like the ones above, they just ignore you or claim that you're making them up. it's unreal.

[realFedUp]

4. Rove is playing these people like fools and tools...eom.

[Miss Authoritiva]

5. Can you be indoctrinated if you don't want to be?

"There are people who listen to Rush Limbaugh for more hours every day than the Branch Davidians listened to David Koresh."

[Strawman]

6. What an amazing survey in that article

Proves it's not the issues that matter to alot of voters, especially the Bush folks. It's the frame, and the posture and the connotation of what being for Bush and being a Republican does for their own self-image. The Republicans can't win on the issues. They win on lifestyle affirmation and lifestyle condemnation, in other words, complete bullshit.

[bloom]

7. Choosy Mothers Choose Kerry

I love Molly.