Why does * use the word "thug" all the time?

[madison2000]

To me a thug is a person who grabs a purse and runs off with it...

[mr_hat]

1. Or a nation.

[punpirate]

2. The Bushes have been stealing purses...

... for a long, long time. It's a word that comes naturally to them....

[PA Democrat]

3. It's easy to pronounce? n/t

[madison2000]

4. "thugs and assassins"

you grab her purse and I'll execute her :evilfrown:

[Nay]

5. Because he and his buddies ARE thugs, and the word

subconsciously comes to his lips so often because it is psychologically a way of talking about himself. He just doesn't make the connection. Just like all the guys who "hate gays" have subconscious homosexual longings, etc.

[Bouncy Ball]

6. It's classic projection.

He knows HE'S a thug.

[Groggy]

7. Takes one to know one? n/t

[Zeke]

8. Focus Group Think...

It's a Frank Luntz word.

Every word he speaks is focused-grouped.

[ashmanonar]

13. it makes you wanna go load up one of their focus groups, huh?

and get them using a whole bunch of crazy words that they'd never think people liked...:evilgrin:

[madison2000]

14. "make no mistake"... "freedom is breaking out all over"

In My Sentences I Go Where No Man Has Gone Before.

[Benhurst]

9. Bush uses the word "thug" all the time because it is a term of

endearment within the Bush Crime Family. As in, "Barbara, you are such a thug." Or as in, "George P. is turning out to be a fine little thug."

[madison2000]

12. a term of endearment!

I wonder if the twins are thugs.

Slut plus thug = slug?

[Arkana]

10. He is one, so it's easy to identify them.

[jpgray]

11. Go with what you know (nt)

[Orsino]

15. Professional courtesy.

Seriously, he is desperate to appear legitimate, and so must constantly distance himself from those who steal and murder without any cloak of respectability.

[madison2000]

16. He used the word "thug" on September 11 and it always struck me as

diminishing the severity of what happened. It was't a street crime, for god's sake.

He seems to think in these incredibly simplistic terms of "good guys" and "bad guys" only now he throws in a little Biblical language like "evildoers" to dress it up.

[msgadget]

17. It elicits a visceral reaction.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. It's one of the words he can actually spell?

:shrug:

[Left Is Write]

19. Projection?

[uppityperson]

20. Difficult to slur "thug".

If you are drunk. Or something. Not that I'd ever accuse Bush of being drunk. Or something.