Please someone explain to me why so many are still wanting

[LZ1234]

this jerk of a president for 4 more years? With all the information out there to pointing to his incompetency, what's going on? I understand that part of that group are the fundamentalist extremists who in their own little world, but what about the rest of them? In my neighborhood I see more Bush signs and some of them are people I know pretty well or thought I did. I would love to ask them what are they thinking but I know that's not the way to go. I just want to understand.

[specter]

1. Have u

every tryd to convince a christian that there is no god?

Thats why

[Kire]

3. i don't see it that way

I'd rather see it as an emperor's no clothes thing, or, getting closer to the import of what you're saying, telling a kid there's no santa claus

i hope it is obvious why I say that, plus I think it's more optimistic

[pauliedangerously]

9. yeah...

it's like trying to stick a marshmallow in a parking meter slot.

[Erika]

2. It's the fear factor

Bush thinks he can keep them controlled through fear and $ running to his defense donors. Unfortunately, they don't realize the huge costs to our debt and our kids. We lost another two in Afghanistan today while opium continues to be their cash crop. Read the stories and facts on www.icasualties.org. The GOP doesn't want everyday Americans to think about the horrors and actual cost of war, but it's out there.

[Aunt Anti-bush]

4. It isn't democrats 'vs' republicans anymore...

It's intelligence 'vs' ignorance.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Ok lets divide the bush suporters, shall we?

If you are a CEO... especially in the Oil and energy industry, you have done more than just extremely well. Four more years of Bush means you will make even more money. Those people are voting their economic interests and for them it makes ALL THE SENSE in the world. Those are about 10% of his base. For those... it makes sense

Now you also have the ones who are MC who think that some day they will be among them CEOs, they do want the kinds of freedoms they want and like... for them they are voting their economic interests (albeit future interests... and yes they are getting royally screwed)These folks are about another 10% of the base

Finally you have the one item, usually morality, issue voter. This includes the Right Wing Christian (Gays are bad... marriage is between a man and a woman), Then this also includes the I have rights to own guns, what limits, no limits, I am guaranteed this by the Second Ammendment. Or the ever so popular I am scared and daddy will protect me from them darn cute Terrarists.... These folks are the rest of them...

Oh did I forget to mention that ALL of them combined are not even close to the majority? Hence if we all vote, they all loose, why they need to cheat.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. I saw a good article by Arianna Huffington on this very subject.

I you have a few minutes, it makes pretty interesting read;

http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/column.php?id=738

excerpt:
Since the president's meltdown in the first debate — followed in quick succession by Paul Bremer's confession, the CIA's no-al-Qaida/Saddam link report, the Duelfer no-WMD-since-'91 report, and the woeful September job numbers — I have been racking my brain trying to figure out why George W. Bush is still standing.

The answer arrived via my friend Ed Solomon, the brilliant writer and filmmaker, who explained that the conundrum could be solved by looking at the very organ I'd been racking.

Ed introduced me to the work of Dr. Daniel Siegel, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and author of the forthcoming book "Mindsight," which explores the physiological workings of the brain.

Turns out, when it comes to Campaign 2004, it's the neuroscience, stupid!

[saracat]

7. Our educational system is one of the worst in the world

and most of our populace are barely literate. They can barely understand what Kerry is saying let alone read about his positions. They resent his being smart and consider it patronizing. Bush is someone they identify with because he is as dumb as they are and doesn't make them feel threatened.

[Lexingtonian]

8. vanity, cowardice, and corruption

There's the cowardice- moral and physical- that Bush represents, which they can identify with.

There's the vanity- of being "Christian", of being white/entitled, of being able to hurt those who are smarter, better, and wiser than yourself- that Bush so openly expresses.

There's the corruption- of scams and delivering nothing, of plagiarism and lazy kinds of criminality, of legalized theft of many kinds, of reviving White Privilege- that has reached an unprecedented prosperity during these past four years.

It's all at bottom about hatred of change, fear of the future, certainty of being stripped of privilege you/your group is unworthy of but clings to when some meaningful standard of justice gets applied. It's incapacity toward the Modern world- where classical theism proves a dysfunctional/pathological tenet rather than a necessary one and pseudoscience/occultism is considered intellectual failure to be ridiculed mercilessly.