28% Of Republicans Say BP Disaster Makes Them Want More Off Shore Drilling

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/11/9116/99947

Tue May 11, 2010 at 06:15:22 AM PDT

I have been writing occasionally on the instances of Jethro Bodine-ism in Republican elected officials. Bodine-ism is the condition where a person will cheerfully and apparently with no irony or bad-faith repeat the talking points of their party, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to contrary of the points. This is the logical outcome of the Republican war on expertise and facts.

It seems that Bondine-ism is not just limited to Republican elected officials. There is a new survey by Public Policy Polling (PPP) which will be released today that for 28% of Republicans the recent BP Deep Horizon disaster makes them more likely to support off shore drilling.

[lame54]

1. They probably believe that they can drive up to the shore and fill their tanks for free

[Ganja Ninja]

14. Ed Schultz had a caller yesterday that said ...

He couldn't understand why more people weren't going out (into the gulf) to pick up the oil. "It's free oil!":banghead:

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. Heheh

:rofl: :silly:

[roguevalley]

34. that is the level of millinarianism in the party, the endtimers who

don't believe they will have to face the consequences of their actions so they want the cash. now.

[Webster Green]

2. That same 28% that cheered everything the chimp ever did.

The same 28% that is totally fucking insane.

[derby378]

10. That's for damn sure...

If we can't educate them, we've got to swarm them at the ballot box and outlive as many of them as we can. Stay healthy, DUers!

[Uncle Joe]

3. I believe that number is extremely fluid and it will drop as this catastrophe unfolds.

That same poll also states the same % of Republicans are now less likely to support offshore drilling.

We have some new national polling coming out tomorrow on offshore drilling. The most astounding number from the poll? 28% of Republicans said the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico made them more likely to support drilling off the coast to an equal 28% who said it made them less likely to be supportive. 44% said it made no difference to them and that's understandable, but why would an oil spill make you more supportive of drilling?

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/05/politics-of-oil-spills.html

This environmental catastrophe is just beginning.

Thanks for the thread, NNNOLHI.

[depakid]

5. Not only is the environmental catastophe just beginning, Unc-

it's happening right in many of their backyards.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Exactly.

[Webster Green]

18. No. It's the same pesky 28% who are just fucking insane.

The same 28% who always poll on the idiotic side of any issue.

They aren't ever going to have a rational thought about anything...ever.

[Uncle Joe]

26. Some of them aren't insane, they've been brainwashed by their information sources.

If this is a long term catastrophe that ruins the Gulf Coast possibly spreading around the east coast, wiping out fishing, tourism, real estate and thousands of businesses there is no way in Hell, that some of them won't wake up because their information sources; will be exposed as the idiots they are.

It's one thing to argue against an invisible, odorless gas which has a long term creeping effect on the environment, it's another to deny a black oily mess on thousands of miles of beaches and ocean with dead sea creatures everywhere in what used to be regarded as home and paradise.

Some of them will wake up.

[Webster Green]

28. The 28% will not change.

They were with us for the entire chimp administration. Poll after poll showed 28% who are against anything that makes sense.

The number is always 28%. They are crazed ideologues, and nothing will ever cause them to change their minds about anything.

[Uncle Joe]

33. Nothing is as "real and visible" as the damage this will do to them.

They may be crazy ideologues but some of them will become sick at what this oil gusher will do to their lives.

With the chimp administration, things could be and were blamed on something or somebody else, they won't be able to do that here.

If there is one thing I've learned about life; nothing stays the same.

[Webster Green]

35. They will blame Obama.

They're already blaming him. Years from now, the 28% will still be bitching about Obama, fuckin' hippies, commies......

Trust me. :smoke:

[AnArmyVeteran]

4. The beatings will continue until the crying stops...

Another conservative philosophy...

[marions ghost]

6. Well a lot of Dems supported it too.

Where's that poll?

You'd have to compare the two to say what % insane the Republicons are.

Also how about a poll of Dems and Reps living on the Gulf Coast? (vs rest of country)

Most people do not yet understand the magnitude of this, and are hoping it'll just go away.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

7. May I throw in a "Gump-ism"?

"Stupid is as stupid does".

At least Forrest Gump was a fictional character. Those 28% are actual living, breathing and evidentally not too bright people.

[fascisthunter]

8. the sociopaths in this country obviously are attracted to the GOP

gee, what a surprise

[KittyWampus]

9. Old joke from my grandmother: Why does the fool keep hitting his head against the wall?

Because it feels so good when he stops.

[derby378]

13. Beavis and Butt-head once made a similar observation

Getting your ass kicked does not feel cool, but after it's over, y'know, doesn't it feel kinda cool?

Mike Judge is a national treasure.

[BurtWorm]

12. We need to drill the shit out of the Gulf to replace all that wasted oil BO spilled..

:patriot:

[berni_mccoy]

16. 28% also said Obama was the Anti-Christ.

[Dappleganger]

17. When they can't get their favorite gumbo

or go fishing with the grandsons, maybe they'll begin to listen.

[Arctic Dave]

19. Up north here they are using it as an opportunity to try and open up ANWR.

After all, oilwells never blow out or leak onshore. Oh, wait a second.

[WeDidIt]

20. Remarkably, 28% of Republicans like shellfish with a bit of crude oil flavoring. n/t

[gulliver]

21. Wonder how those correlate with the "Bush approvers..."

...climate change deniers, etc. The GOP sells imbecility mislabeled as contrarianism. People want to feel good more than they want to "think good." As you say, the GOP has a "war on expertise and facts." As long as it pays off (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, etc.), people will keep doing it.

[kenny blankenship]

22. I guess the truth must be somewhere in the middle?

The same amount or slightly more offshore drilling should be our goal, then. We should always strive to compromise and seek common ground with these people. Agree with them when we can, disagree when we must, cave in to them always. For we are one nation, defined by one far right political extreme, and our time is now.

[Peacetrain]

23. You cannot make that up.. so stuck on stupid..28% of republicans

are just plain stupid..

[malaise]

24. The bigger news is that

72% of them are against it or have doubts.

[NNN0LHI]

30. I wish. 44% said it made no difference to them according to the poll

;(

[malaise]

31. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ReTHUGS are batshit crazy, greedy and irresponsible.

[Arugula Latte]

25. They are socioopaths, pure and simple.

[grace0418]

27. Who knew that at least 28% of the GOP was not only insane but also irretrievably stupid?

They seem so smart and upstanding.

[Sheepshank]

29. I'm thinking

this is the same 28% that was squarely in Bush's camp the day he left office. Some people are stuck on stupid.

[Kahuna]

32. As the Prez once observed, they revel in their ignorance.

:patriot:

[Motown_Johnny]

36. They are Republicans, Lung cancer makes them want a cigarette

Don't let it get to you