It's scary how irrationally loyal they are to their leader...

[kentuck]

Listening a bit to right-wing radio on my way home from the day's labor, I could not help but notice the ferocity with which they were defending Bush's right and "duty" to break the laws in the name of "protecting" the American people. Although Bush has never been known to be truthful about anything in his life, from his drinking and snorting days, to his questionable stock deals with Harken, to his short and mysterious military record, to his stealing the election in Florida, to his lying us into an unnecessary war, they still cling to their own manufactured myth of an honest and moral man. Because to admit the truth about Bush would be to admit the truth about themselves. They are weak and gullible individuals that are subject to severe misjudgements. They cannot look at themselves in the mirror because to do so would be to see the real criminals behind the throne. So they decide to fight to protect what is so obviously wrong.

[tavalon]

1. Well, how loyal were

the hard core Nazis? It's easier to be a Bushbot than to think. Thinking for oneself is hard work.

[villager]

2. maybe when the truth finally hits -- however it does --

his supporters will be in such profound shock, and such a state of mental implosion for so many years to come, that they'll just opt out out of electoral politics completely, and leave it to America's grown-ups.

Well, a fella can dream, can't he?

[FreedomAngel82]

26. That'll only happen

if it directly effects them with a lot. My grandmother, on my dad's side, used to support Bush but now she doubts him. :shrug: Dunno how that happened but I'm glad though! :D Hopefully others will too.

[firefox]

3. They are outnumbered by we & outsmarted too nt

[Skittles]

4. heck, listen to CSPAN

the republican callers overwhelmingly just LOOOOOOOVE BOOOOSH - they excuse everything - the war, Katrina, gas prices, the economy, the torture, the spying. It is beyond irrational; it is sickening beyond belief. Something is very, very wrong in America.

[0007]

19. I had to give up on Washington Journal, because now it is a heavy

leaning right wing crap program starting with Brian Lamb on Fridays.

[otohara]

24. The Bush Lovers on C-Span - I Think Are Paid

by lobbyists. Like how they pay poor people to stand in line at congressional hearings, then right before the doors open...in come the suits.

[Skittles]

29. I have long suspected that paid folk are calling

they're just too organized, the talking points they speak - or read

[TheBaldyMan]

30. You don't mean like Jeff Gannon ...

that was a one-off. :sarcasm:

[zanne]

31. The Washington Journal call-ins aren't indicative of the country.

They don't have open lines, where anyone can call at any time. The lines are divided so that we, the audience, will hear roughly every other caller in support of the president. You notice the telephone numbers are divided into three categories; Democrats, Bush supporters, and Independents. That means that a caller who is Republican and anti-Bush cannot call in.

[AtomicKitten]

5. it's the pretzel rationalizations I find fascinating.

They can excuse anything, and I mean any felony he commits.

[maynard]

6. sex

the only thing that will not be forgiven is if he has sex with someone other than Laura.
That will be unforgiveable.....maybe....sort-of, if only done in the name of protecting the American people.

[C_U_L8R]

7. I was thinking sex too...

but more about how this whole Bush infatuation/adoration
is strangely sexual (as it was with Hitler).
He appeals to these straighter-than-straight types
who are generally a little over-wound anyway..
and it just seems that they should all go off
and have some big freeper-jerk or something.
Sorry .. not intending to gross out..
it just that.. something's hiding beneath the sheets here
and it ain't Jeff Gannon..or maybe it is.

[belle]

23. Daddy issues. Bank on it.

[sarcasmo]

18. What about Gannon, that is probably a given but has been kept quiet.

[FreedomAngel82]

27. Let's find out!

Maybe someone could get him a hooker to come to him while he's on vacation. :shrug:

[Ouabache]

28. well under-age asian hookers sure show up at Neil Bush's door

wanting to give him a little free love, right? Why not George?

[snowbear]

8. I wonder how many of them are honestly loyal to the man himself ...

..and are not defending his every action out of FEAR?

Fear that if they actually spoke their minds (you know.. the thing that RimJob at FreakRepuglic won't allow his brain dead members to do )

..that they could lose support for their listeners, their party, and ultimately their president and majority in congress?

How much of it is LOYALTY .. and how much of it is LIES?

They'll do anything and say anything to maintain POWER.

[Erika]

9. They have to go with the rah rah

The Bushbots have realized they backed those who would give our wealth to the corporations at the cost of our military and economy. It is lies.

[beltanefauve]

15. Fear is where its at

The powers that be (no, not Bush*, the ones who pull the strings) have been manipulating us for some time now with two weapons: Fear and Ignorance. Marriage? Needs PROTECTING. The "tax-and-spend Democrats" are out to TAKE YOUR MONEY. Those foreigners and illegals are out to TAKE YOUR JOBS. And so on. These people (or should I say sheeple) HAVE to stick with the "Father-Knows-Best" belief in government. "Go ahead," they say, "Take my civil liberties and protect me from the terrorists". And what's worse than being attacked by the terrorists, or the Communists, or the Boogeyman?

Losing one's place in line, that's what. And might makes right. Look at the demographics to see exactly who Bush's* base is, and who has been giving him the most support in the midst of falling poll numbers. Its the ones at the very front of the line, or the ones who MOST ASPIRE to be at the front of the line, who feel they have the most to lose.

[shraby]

10. How many of the people who call in

do so because that's their job and are being paid for it?

[cry baby]

11. It's cult behavior...they revere him, love him, trust him,

and he rewards them... he (according to them) protects them from terror attacks and hell itself.

[stevietheman]

12. When people advocate or support criminal actions by their country,...

they are, by extension, criminals. People who fight such actions are the true patriots.

We are the true patriots.

[Kiouni]

13. I thought

this was strange too and i keep believing these people will wake up and see that he has trashed our country. But it's kind of like talking to a ww2 vet about how we didn't need to drop the bomb. when they finally do realize it they'll just hate us more.

[zanne]

16. Blind faith in anything is destructive.

If they can be blindly faithful to a creed or a system of spiritual belief, it isn't a leap to think that they can be blindly faithful to a political ideology. If any complicated question can be answered with "because that's what I believe", rational thinking just doesn't apply and is unnecessary.

[Lexingtonian]

14. He's their mirror image, after all

and it's people who feel their time is passing or past who glom onto him. He's the epitome of an American society of half a lifetime ago- in its uneducated and miseducated/'Christian' and colonial exploitation-centered desires and designs. Right wingers don't believe in Constitutions or laws and never have, only in using them against other people. They're always about fearing people who are better than themselves and hating people worse than themselves.

Right now we're seeing them in a more humbled form- after a lot of attempts and argument, they now admit that in most things of governance they're halfassed or utterly incompetent. But they still have their basic trait of inane viciousness left undefeated, and so they're riding their last point of touting that as virtue- that they're better at "national security".

The People has registered this change of plea and told Republicans to prove that last point. It's certainly keeping score, though. As I see it, in February or March the serious bleeding in the polls will begin again and cut into committed Republicans in a permanent way.

[Tamarin]

17. The Weenie Party.

They are afraid of their own shadows and think that W will keep them safe. Bushco knows this and plays on their fears.

[jbnow]

20. He can break the law

and go against the Constitution to maybe save someone somewhere sometimes.

But negotiate for hostages that would save someone? No, that is not the American way.

I'm thinking that terrorists with big plots won't be chatting on the phone or sending e-mails that are uncoded. It is others they are spying on...war protesters, political rivals and so on that won't be speaking in code.

[Lars39]

21. We need to start asking these 'droids what laws they themselves

are breaking, since they are condoning law breaking.

[Lefty48197]

22. The sick rats go down with a sinking ship.

The healthy rats jump overboard and make a swim for it, even if there is no land around for miles. Pick your poison righties, either way you drown.

[FreedomAngel82]

25. If it was a democrat they'd be up in arms

The difference with us is we're not like that thank goodness. Remember with FDR. Didn't he want to court pack or something like that? The democrats were in charge and could've gone along with it but they stud up and said "no sir you're wrong". Love it. I wish they'd do the same. *sigh*

[graywarrior]

32. They're like cancer cells. Small, but they can take over the

entire body and kill it.