Most repubs have NO idea how badly they are being played for suckers

[mopaul]

some know, but hide it, or pretend otherwise, or deliberately refuse to see it, but the vast majority of the brain dead bushies have no idea just how duped they are. it's easy to call them stupid i guess, but the neoCONS know how to tap into and exploit those vast reserves of stupidity, and profit from it.

most of them really don't get it, and have bizarre hallucinations that bush is actually in charge and actually appointed by god, and actually intelligent, and actually from texas, and actually making us safer, and actually a nice guy, and actually takes orders from god.

they have no idea how they are being robbed on a monstrous scale for their hard work, and no idea that our sons and daughters are dying and killing for all the wrong reasons, not noble ones.

i can't imagine what it would take, to make them see through the cheap illusions and side show barking. and i can't imagine how they might react if they really knew what we already know. i doubt they'd take too kindly to it. nobody likes being screwed over and lied to and taken advantage of and robbed. i wish they'd open their eyes and just see it.

[bluestateguy]

1. They will when they or their sons get this in the mail

[fdr_hst_fan]

2. I remember when I was a teenager:

it was 1972, and the Watergate break-in had just occurred. None of the Nixon supporters would even HEAR of the possibility that Nixon could ACTUALLY be INVOLVED! Well, surprise, surprise, he WAS, clear up to his SKI-NOSE! Boy, when the scales finally fell away from their eyes, it was almost SAD to see how truly devastated they were. We (liberals) tried to tell them this had been going on with him since he first ran for Congress, but they JUST WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT. Watergate made them believers, but only because the media in this country ACTUALLY DID THEIR JOBS BACK THEN, and investigated, instead of handing out free passes to Nixon, Agnew, et al, the way today's WHORE MEDIA does with Smirk and Snarl!

:mad:

[Sugarbleus]

3. It might take another Bush term for them to see it...

Unfortunately. However, I don't want to suffer that fate just because they are too dimwitted to question authority.

GO KERRY/EDWARDS!!

[Blue Gardener]

4. I have a theory

Ever had a spouse or signicant other cheat on you? You know there is someting going on, all the signs are there, but you just can't make yourself believe that someone you trust is lying to you. Then, once you finally connect the dots and realize what's going on, it's like a kick in the gut. I think some of the repugs are totally in that state of denial and will never admit they are being duped. It's easier for them to just look the other way, or continue to deny what they know is true.
Anyway, that's my theory.

[AspenRose]

5. "Republicans: Bush is lying to you, too."

Bumper sticker I saw on a truck at a doctor's office last week (next to a Kerry/Edwards sticker).

[hellbound-liberal]

6. Hey DesertedRose, is "Christians for Kerry/Edwards" your site?

I like it a lot! and you're in my neighborhood. If it is, do you have a bumpersticker? I would definitely like to have one for my truck. Let me know on this thread or send me a private e-mail. Thanks, Irk

[atreides1]

7. The Problem

As I see it, is that they actually believe in what they are being told. They lack the ability to think for themselves, to look beyond the rhetoric, because to do so would force them to question their beliefs.

And if they question their beliefs then they would have to admit that perhaps their lives are nothing but lies, and that I think would destroy them.

So like the Catholics who sat by and watched as the Inquisition did it's work, or even the Germans who did nothing when their Jewish neighbors were taken, never to return. Those that believe in Bush are
too far gone, and like 'good Americans' they will sit by as they are lied to, robbed, and shown cheap illusions by side show barkers.

And even when they receive that visit, and meet the flag draped coffin, and bury a son or daughter, they will still believe, because
to do anything else would destroy the world that they have made for themselves.

We who do see the truth, who can know that we are being robbed, and not only us but our children and grandchildren, we for the time being must try to help them see. But, at the same time we must ourselves finally accept the fact that these people are our enemies, and they too will sit and do nothing should our turn to disappear ever come.

Therefore, we should try to help them, but not to our own detriment, or the sacrifice of our own families.

[greekspeak]

8. I think you are correct in general but...

You have to be careful how you state things. You said, "the neoCONS know how to tap into and exploit those vast reserves of stupidity, and profit from it." I do not think it is stupidity that neoCons are exploiting...I think it is people's moral fiber that they are exploiting. Americans have a need to feel that they are a moral people. I think you can trace this trait as far back as Plymouth Rock. The RW spent years learning how to manipulate Americans' moral fiber. They have learned which buttons to push. The economy, health, education...they all take a back seat to moral issues now. People vote with their morals. Morals are aglomerated into other issues....sex ed in schools, abortion, aids...all issues everyone needs to care about, but moralize into unimportance. This is the real treachery of the right wing.

[Dem_Loyalist]

9. I try not to be too judgmental but

The more time I spend here the more it seems like the right just isn't real bright. I try to always see the best in people but it seems like conservatives just consistently make the wrong decisions.

The one thing I see so often is how they make these huge illogical jumps in thought. If you suggest that maybe those with a lot more money than most people should maybe help a tiny bit more, just the tiniest bit more, they start screaming that its socialism and calling us communists.

This is how I think of it, you have people living in the desert ok & theres only so much water available. A few people are luckier than others and are able to drill more wells and have more water than others. Why should they be able to have spas and pools, just flaunting it in everyone else's face, when so many people are thirsty?

Maybe a little bit of socialism isn't really all that scary a thing is it?

[ComerPerro]

10. Yeah, but they deserve it

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. Another 4 Years, But What Then?

I've been trying to imagine exactly what is going to happen should Bush (god forbid) get re-(s)elected in November. Four years from now does anybody REALLY think that we are all going to conclude that re-(s)electing Bush was the RIGHT thing to do (if it happens of course)? Most people claim that they believe that this country is currently headed in the WRONG direction but also inexplicably report that they want Bush/GOP to stay in the driver's seat for another 4 years (maybe even more) in spite of the fact that Bush/GOP have been firmly in the driver's seat for the last 4 years and have little or nothing to be proud of such as:
1.)9-11-Somehow considered Bush's greatest strength is IMHO his greatest weakness. His lack of attention to and concern about the subject of terrorism in favor of an unnecessary (see a pattern here?) and outmoded missle defense shield should underscore this better than anything. Would 9-11 still have happened? Maybe but at least he would have been able to say that he was actively working to address the problem BEFORE 3000 people died in a massive coordinated attack.
2.)Afghanistan: We got rid of the Taliban/Al-Queda's sanctuaries....for a while But we never got Bin Laden and due to our focus on Iraq, the Taliban/Al-Queda are experiencing a resurgence.
3.)Iraq: Unnecessary waste of time, manpower, and resources that could've been more effectively utilized fully securing Afghanistan and capturing Bin Laden. Also it turns out to created a NEW terrorist sanctuary where there was none before. Saddam might have been a genocidal maniac but after GW1 he stayed on his side of fence and was completely and utterly boxed in and defanged. Of course I got a real high when we captured him and not to mention execute his sons in a hail of bullets but his capture and their deaths ultimately changes NOTHING. We are just IF NOT MORE vulnerable to global terrorism NOW than we were before.

What is Bush promising in his next term? I have a bad feeling that if Bush wins in November (once again, God forbid!), a people who voted for him are going to have a serious case of buyers remorse that we would need to be ready and willing to exploit.