A Different Kind of Republican

[hyphenate]

Lately, more and more, I've been seeing a lot of "ordinary" Repubs coming forward and saying they can't stand Bush and would love to see someone else in the white house, but that they ARE Repubs and won't vote for a Dem.

Many of them keep saying (as though they were in denial) that Bush is no Repub, and that they don't know exactly WHAT he is, just that he's no Repub.

You know how that makes me feel? Amused.

If GWB had been a one term Prez, it would be obvious that he was a mistake, and that the GOP could find a better candidate to run for their party, and in 2004, they would have done so. But the truth is, they stuck with the MoFo and here we are today living with THEIR candidate.

Yes, we all know that GWB doesn't have the GOP's ideals, and even though he is the biggest failure and screw-up this side of the Atlantic, he still ran on the GOP platform, and was elected by REPUBLICANS.

Some might call him a "different kind of Republican" but the truth is, he RAN as a GOP candidate and was elected AS the GOP candidate.

It seems to me that more and more of these people are just unable to cope with their own intolerance, their own brand of "compassion" (which, frankly doesn't exist), and their own permanent views, even to the point of electing a criminal who is using the Constitution to wipe his ass. They are finally seeing themselves all too well in the persona of GWB, and they don't like the evil that is staring back at them.

And now they are capitulating, and they expect us to pat them on the back and say, "That's okay, buddy, things will be all right." And I say NEVER. I say we need to throw it up to them and remind them of all the shit that has been bestowed on the country for over 5 years now, and how fucked we are with years and years ahead to try and regain some of what we have lost under THEIR candidate and idiot in chief.

For the most part, I am usually happy to comply and like to keep the peace. But now, I will never again trust a puke to give me a recommendation for the white house. Because while they have had second thoughts on their own foolish mistake, we've had to watch our country go down the tubes under their watch.

[leftofthedial]

1. translation:

"I'm an idiot. I want to wash my hads of this asshole before I find myself indicted as an accomplice in crimes against humanity. Did I mention that I'm an idiot? But it's HIS fault, not mine! I'm such a total fucking idiot."

[glitch]

2. The next repub candidate will be better looking and better controlled than

bush, but s/he'll still be bush. Bush is the logical conclusion, the apex, of their ideology ever since Nixon. There is no way they would ever go back and adjust, it's not in their nature. They'd consider it a retreat.

[zbdent]

6. Of course the next R candidate will be so much of an improvement ...

geez, that's like digging a hole and hitting the molten core, and jumping up a foot ...

[SheilaT]

3. There are far too many

of those kinds of Republicans out there. Claiming not to like GWB and what he's done, but unwilling to take actual responsibility for the horrors he's perpetrated, and won't vote for a Democrat, no matter who the nominee is. And keep in mind, that NO MATTER who we Dems nominate in two years, millions of otherwise good people on both sides are going to say, "You know, I would vote for a Democrat this time around, but there's no way I'm going to vote for that nominee." Fill in the blank yourself. It doesn't matter who you personally support, who you like, who you can't stand within the party. Clearly, some potential nominees (like Hillary) are more divisive than others, but never, NEVER underestimate the ability of the Republicans to smear us and our ilk.

What we need to be doing is holding their feet to the fire. You voted for W? Then you approved of every bad thing that's happened since he became "President".

[raysr]

4. But, but he's

"born again" and talks to "god"!

[Bandit]

5. Republicans have proved time and time again they have no

Credibility. Why believe them now?

[Salviati]

7. Screw that... W DOES have the GOP's ideals

at least the ideals that they govern with, which are markedly different than those that they campaign with. Bush is not the problem, he is merely a symptom of the failure of conservative ideals. Any republican presidential nominee who would have gotten the support of todays GOP would have been just as bad as bush.

Granted, they may not have had the same difficulty putting together coherent sentances, resisting the urge to grope world leaders, and other examples of general dumbassery, but I guarintee you, we'd still be stuck in a quagmire in Iraq, Katrina would have still been a disaster, the deficit would still be at stratospheric levels, and the power would still be out in New York. These are all the invevitable result of electing to power people who don't belive that the government can have a role in improving the life of the general person, and who belive that what little (but expensive) government there is should be treated like a cash cow...

The problem is more than just one man, it's the whole culture that has developed over the last few decades in the GOP party, and it will continue to be a problem until the party is punished so harshly in the elections over such a long period of time, that they have no recourse but to reform themselves in order to start winning elections again. Until they start losing elections as a party, they've got no motivation to change.

[porphyrian]

8. That self-serving ass-covering lip service is nothing new with them. - n/t