How do Republicans maintain the charade ?

[kentuck]

That they actually believe what Bush is doing is good for our country? How can they continue to pretend that this guy is a leader and he's really just a down-to-earth person? How can they sleep at night knowing what they have done to this country by putting this pretender into office? How can they look their children in the eye knowing what they have done to their future? How can they look themselves in the mirror knowing that they have put a person into office with an IQ about 10 points lower than their dumbest cousin? What kind of drugs are they on?

[WilliamPitt]

1. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. succinct

[kentuck]

4. That was a quick response Will....

:) Who do they worship on Sunday??

[WilliamPitt]

8. The moneychangers

who run the temple.

[Doug Decker]

3. Fingers in ears....

lalalalalalalalaa

Like the Vancome Lady!

[amlouden]

5. and how do they do it with a straight face?

[NCLib23]

6. From my repub friends:

"He's not my guy, but he's a hell of a lot closer than Kerry is"

[0007]

27. Hilarious!

I had a right wing nut tell me the other day that Kerry was absolutely one of the scariest guys he's ever known.

[CPops57]

7. I think its more an issue of having an irrational fear...

...of the Democratic party.

They fear Kerry so much (for whatever reason) that they have to try and rationalize every single dumb thing that Dubya has done. I don't know how they do it.

Its sad really because the Republican Party used to be somewhat honorable when you go back and look at some of the names of the past. Not today, I'm afraid. This is a dark time period in history for the GOP.

[lgardengate]

9. They DONT "know" that

I know Bush supporters and they see things totaly different.My mom is a great,loving person but she is a total Bush supporter.She thinks he's good.She wont fight over politics so if me or my uncle (another Dem) try to talk to her about it she wont discuss it.Says "i'm voting for him" and that's all she'l say.If she thought he was a liar etc she wouldn't vote for him.

[kentuck]

11. Grandpa was a carpenter.....

He voted for Eisenhower 'cause Lincoln won the war...Some people have no idea why they vote the way they do....

Welcome lgardengate! :)

peace

[lgardengate]

19. Thanks for the welcome Kentuk

glad i found ya'll. :toast:

[DieboldMustDie]

13. But anyone who thinks he isn't a liar just isn't paying attention.

:shrug:

[devinsgram]

26. Most people will not admit openly

they made a mistake and were made fools of in their thinking about *. They do not like to let anyone know they were lied to and manipulated. That's just human nature. But when they get in the voting booth this fall, I bet the majority will not vote for him. In secret,in that booth, their real feelings will come out. To the rest of the world, they will keep them hidden.

[leftofthedial]

10. dollars and denial

[fearnobush]

12. If they don't support him, many of them, at least on the hill, fear

they will end up in jail if Chimp goes down. It's a blackmail gotch ya evil. These people are gangsters.

[whistle]

14. Neo-conservative mind control

[Skittles]

15. they put the interests of their party above the interests of America

it is as simple as that

[jarab]

16. Practice, Practice, Practice ....

It's apparent that the easiest person to fool is oneself.
Their "compassionate" label (e.g.) is a lie told to themselves to gain some much-needed assurance. Repeat the lie(s) enough times and they become "truths".
Lay it on thick enough and often enough, and it no longer hurts; it even begins to feel good ('cause the "truth" has set 'em free).
IMO there is something terribly amiss in their souls which causes them to endure such turmoil in arriving at the "truth" as they choose to see it. If I must struggle to arrive at the truth, I am as they. Truth does not evolve. It is.
Therein are the dangers in the rw (any) propaganda. Someone else tells you the lies, and relieves you of your personal warfare, which should not have been a battle to commence. How convenient!
However, subjecting yourself to this foreign propaganda is a lie in itself 'cause only you can "discover" without special effort or assisting influences what are your own truths.
I do not wonder why conservative radio/tv is so powerful. It allows them to look in their mirrors without shame. The truth is forevermore a stranger to them.
When people think for themselves without the aid of others already under an influence, there is more love and compassion. Conservatives have no love.

two cents
...O...

[kentuck]

17. That's heavy "O".....

:) Excellent!

[rumguy]

18. They're soulless dickheads

They don't give a shit about anything but money and power...

When you have no conscience, when you have no remorse, no shame, no concern for future generations, the facade is easy to maintain.

[Rex]

20. The same way average Germans went along with the Nazi agenda.

The mechanics of fascism doesn't change over the years, just the people who practice fascism change.

[LunaC]

21. They see the world differently

They are low on the spiritual evolutionary spiral and the moral high ground is literally beyond their grasp.

[NoPasaran]

22. Non-invasive lobotomies

Transmitted by television and the preaching that goes in in those giant nondenominational shopping mall churches.

Either that or they are pod people.

[LibDemAlways]

23. They listen to Rush and

watch FAUX news and have no idea they've been had.

[Blue Gardener]

24. Some just do whatever the church tells them to do

If the preacher tells them Bush is chosen by god, they aren't going to question it. Sad to say there are a lot of fundies that do whatever the church tells them to do, including voting for that idiot again. Maybe it's easier for them not to think on their own.

[Philostopher]

30. It's not just fundies.

There are plenty of white, middle-class Catholics, Episcopalians and assorted evangelical (mostly white, I don't know about black churches and suspect they're probably different; and at least around here, they're still pretty segregated) Protestant denominations (Church of Christ, Methodist, Southern Baptist, etc.) who also love to be told that it's okay to have the summer home and the Ford Exploiter, to justify any behavior they might undertake to gain advantage and money in their jobs and lives, to insinuate poverty is the fault of the poor and to have no empathy for those who have less than they -- because God wants Christians to be happy and prosperous, and because God loves a rich man.

They're not stupid by half. They're reasonably intelligent. And they love being told by their 'spiritual leaders' that it's okay to let avarice and appetite drive their decisions -- that God loves a rich man. As long as God gets his ten percent, you're one of the anointed. You'll be playing a lyre up on those big, fluffy clouds, right next to Jesus and Saint Ron Reagan. Just tip in your ten percent and God loves you, rich man.

Because the churches rely on tithes, we all know why they love a rich man. I know there are exceptions -- somebody will be more than happy to leap in here and tell me why his or her congregation of two hundred and fifty in Podunk isn't like that, so I'm a Christian hater, but I know enough so-called Christians who believe what I'm talking about, one church in one little town somewhere doesn't set the mood for the entirety of the evangelicals. Billy Graham does that. On TV. In a suit that cost more than any two cars I've driven in the last twenty years.

Twenty years ago, I watched the Church of Christ remove greed from all its tenets. They glossed over covetousness, and you stopped hearing about Christ's 'war on poverty' other than as a vague abstraction. Reagan was canonized long before they admitted he even had Alzheimer's disease, back when he was laughing about the poor on the streets and making his fictional 'welfare queens' a part of the American anecdote.

They drove me to agnosticism with it, but I'll tell you what -- I'm fairly confident that my camel and I would have done just fine at the Eye Of The Needle. I don't think any of them will be able to steer their Ford Exploiters or their jet-skis through it.

[Fear]

25. well...

- Religious fanatics (being against * is being against God)
- Diehard Republican voters that just simply CAN'T vote for a democratic party
- Poor news readers
- They are closed up in a community where the idea's keep themselves alive.

[0007]

28. That's a good question!

[Hubert Flottz]

29. The Secretary of Cosmetics(KKKarl) is highly skilled at his work!

Too bad the other departments don't run as well!