Many Republicans have "buyer's remorse"...

[kentuck]

They voted for Dubya because they thought he was going to bring "honor and integrity" to the White House. Those were code words that meant he was not going to get a blow job in the Oval Office. Instead, he was going to screw all of America from that sacred place.

If only he had gotten a blow job and had not spent so much time bad-mouthing everyone around the world, walking like a midget with a two-foot hard-on, America would be a more honorable and respected place today.

If only he had done something else besides spending all of our surplus and lying his ass off to get us into a war. If only he had not been asleep at the wheel and allowed the terrorists to attack... and borrowed a half-trillion to pay off his big spending ways? If only he had been a true conservative?

He said he was a "compassionate conservative" and many Republicans wanted to have a heart and be compassionate to his fellow American but, alas, that was not to be. Try as they might, compassion and Republican were like fire and rain.

Now many Republicans have driven the old car home and find out that someone put sawdust in the transmission. It simply doesn't run like it did at the car lot, all shined up, with a big "FOR SALE" sign in the window.

Now they look in the rear view mirror, and they see four years behind them, when unemployment was below 4%, when jobs were so plentiful that employers could not find employees to fill them, when we were paying down our national debt and there was relative peace in the world, at least compared to now, and there were great dreams about how to make America a better country.

Somewhere they took a wrong turn and ended up on a dirt road to nowhere. But they have their honor and integrity and, at least no one is getting a blow job in the White House. However, most of America is getting screwed.

They put their faith in Dubya because Dubya had more money than anyone else, never mind that he was dumber than a bag of hammers.
Because, their faith is in money and the Golden Rule...he who has the gold makes the rules.

Now, they are back at the place they began. Dubya is sitting back, holding his hard-on and $200 million dollars, and hoping he can buy his Party one more time. BOHICA! Bend over, here it comes again!

[Jack_Dawson]

1. I knew he would be an unmitigated disaster in 2000

I was right. I'm always right in politics. Ask me anything. ;-)

[patricia92243]

3. I'll ask you anything - who is going to be our nominee?

[FatSlob]

2. AWFUL

I made the mistake of voting for that jerk. NEVER again. One good thing happened though, he caused me to switch from independent to Democrat.

[kentuck]

4. Welcome! You big ol' FatSlob!

:)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

5. Welcome to the Party, Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[cally]

7. Welcome to DU

Glad you changed. Why did you vote for him in the first place? What was it about him that appealed to you?

[FatSlob]

11. I was young

and voted more on image than on substance. VP Gore felt kind of dorky. Bush seemed more macho. I know, I know, it is sad, but I was only 21 at the time. Beer and sex were the most important things in my life.

[FatSlob]

12. Forgot to say...

Thanks for the kind welcomes!

[CatWoman]

20. well, here's another

WELCOME!!

:hi:

[kentuck]

13. You can like beer and sex and be a smart voter also...

with Democrats, you can have it all. :)

[FatSlob]

14. Now I do it all!

[never cry wolf]

23. And yet another welcome

Damn job keeps getting in the way of my DU time.

Enjoy your stay here!!

:hi:

[Voltaire99]

17. And they are not now?!

I know, I know, it is sad, but I was only 21 at the time. Beer and sex were the most important things in my life.

Good lord, my good man, if you think replacing the paramountcy of beer and sex are necessary to vote Democrat, then allow me to correct that notion right - *hic!* - now!

Some of a man's best votes are cast right in between sex acts and while under the democratizing influence of beer!

Welcome to DU. ;-)

[cally]

22. Thanks for the insight

Taking away that "macho" image of Repubs is one of the keys to this election. I think we can do it. One of the many reasons that the AWOL story is so important.

Again welcom. We were all young idiots once. Mine was I thought Jimmy Carter was too conservative. Little did I know how much worse it would get.

[morningglory]

8. Welcome, FS! Yaaaaaay...every vote counts.

Thank you for posting.

[Vogon_Glory]

10. Wising Up Is Never Easy

Sorry that you found the getting of wisdom regarding George Minor to be so painful. I had few illusions about the Dubya when I voted in the general elections in 2000; I had had him as my state's governor for six years and one of the promises he broke was that he'd serve out the remainder of his second term as Governor of Texas.

The only illusion I had about Dubya is that he was even worse than I feared he would be.

[Mari333]

19. Hi! Welcome

welcome...my mom wont vote for him again either..or my sister..
welcome again!

[Doctor_J]

6. I blame the media

His reign in Texas - his whole life, in fact - has been one long string of lies, incompetence, failure, and corruption. If just one source in the media had had the nerve to say that during the 2000 campaign, or even during the recount, we would have been spared this disaster. But they insisted on painting this guy as as a cross between Christ, Ghandi, and Schweitzer, and just enough dumbasses bought it so that the election could be given to his dad's corrupt pals in scotus.

They're trying their damnest (??) to do it again, but you can only stray too far from reality and have people believe it. The last 3 years have been SO bad that they can't hide all of the mess.

[Homer12]

9. I kind of feel sad for the Republicans

Becuase they sold themslves-out, blinded by their ideology, hypocrsy, and self-rightousness that they overlooked the fact that the Bill of right and the Consitution are more important than their agenda's.

Sure, they can blame Clinton's blow-job and his lying under oath till they too are grinded up in the neo-con/Bushco war machine, but in the end they can not deny the fact that GW Bush was the one who lied to go to war, trahsed civil rights, and was the one whom harmed our Republic more than any other president.

At that point, they'll realize that their hatred of blow-jobs in the Oval office was really kind of point-less and in fact funny.

And maybe they'll realize how Ironic that it is that they "The Republicans", were the ones who sat by and let Bushco destroy our Republic.

[salinen]

15. Hmmmmmm?

I wouldn't be so sure that the pigs are unhappy with Crawford boy.

[grasswire]

21. do NOT feel sorry for Republicans

The same crowd has been trying to seize power through attacks on the Constitution since the 1930s, when they almost succeeded in bringing a military coup against Franklin Roosevelt.

Think about these:

McCarthyism
Watergate
Iran Contra
October Surprise
Botching of the Paris Peace Talks
JFK assassination
coup attempt against Clinton
Election 2000 coup
attacks on balance of powers
Lying to Congress to make war

They can't win at the ballot box, so they try to seize power to impose their ideology on the American people (and the world).

DO NOT FEEL SORRY FOR THEM. They won't stop until they feel some pain.

[DemoTex]

16. Excellent rant, Kentuck!

My sentiments, exactly. There was a great piece in Liberal Opinion, or one of those conpendiums, a couple of years ago. The writer said that Bu$h was driving the country down a narrow mountain gravel road at 80 mph, backwards, with one eye on the rearview mirror and the other on the loot.

[Kazak]

18. MONEY!

You nailed it.

[never cry wolf]

24. Extremely well said kentuck!!

Unfortunately not enough of them had their eyes open 4 years ago.

:yourock:

[opihimoimoi]

25. They got HAD, and now gatta eat CROW while admitting error to friends

and associates. They are pissed.