My repub brother: "Bush doesn't learn from mistakes"

[Not Me]

Wahoo!! I finally heard it from my GOP brother that he has had it with bu*h. Citing chimpy's inablity to learn from mistakes in life, he said he will be voting for Kerry in the Fall.
Unfortunately, he lives in NY-a solid blue state, so it won't affect electoral count.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Good news anyway though. Did you play a big role in all this,

or did he just simply absorb all the wonderful news this last year and reach his own "buyer's remorse?" Any arguments the last few years?

[Not Me]

5. I actually think he came to this decision a while ago...

but his ego prevented him from admitting it.
He was never a Rush neo-con, just a generic conservative...who doesn't like deficits and bloated government, disdains government interference in personal lives, and inaccountability.

I think he *wanted* bu*h to work out, but has lost confidence.

[Skittles]

2. Bush doesn't learn from his mistakes

but it appears your brother does. :)

[seabeyond]

3. cant learn if you cant see you made any mistakes

that is an easy and another reason fro the question what mistakes? aaaaaaaa, hm, well, i dont know

[Don_G]

4. He Will Also Be Talking To Other Repubs

Who share similar views and probably already has. If nothing else, count it as a leading economic indicator suggesting the viewpoint of that region.

[doni_georgia]

6. In order to learn from mistakes, you have to admit making them! n/t

[madmax]

7. Show your brother this article.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11227-2004May8.html

Dissension Grows In Senior Ranks On War Strategy
U.S. May Be Winning Battles in Iraq, Losing the War, Some Officers Say
By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 9, 2004; Page A01

Deep divisions are emerging at the top of the U.S. military over the course of the occupation of Iraq, with some senior officers beginning to say that the United States faces the prospect of casualties for years without achieving its goal of establishing a free and democratic Iraq.

Their major worry is that the United States is prevailing militarily but failing to win the support of the Iraqi people. That view is far from universal, but it is spreading, and being voiced publicly for the first time.

Army Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr., the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, who spent much of the year in western Iraq, said he believes that at the tactical level at which fighting occurs, the U.S. military is still winning. But when asked whether he believes the United States is losing, he said, "I think strategically, we are."

And this one: http://slate.msn.com//id/2100064/

The Misunderestimated Man
How Bush chose stupidity.
By Jacob Weisberg Posted Friday, May 7, 2004, at 6:54 AM PT

Was he born that way?

Adapted from the introduction to The Deluxe Election-Edition Bushisms, published by Fireside Books/Simon & Schuster. Reprinted with permission; © 2004 Jacob Weisberg.

The question I am most frequently asked about Bushisms is, "Do you really think the president of the United States is dumb?"

The short answer is yes.

The long answer is yes and no.

Quotations collected over the years in Slate may leave the impression that George W. Bush is a dimwit. Let's face it: A man who cannot talk about education without making a humiliating grammatical mistake ("The illiteracy level of our children are appalling"); who cannot keep straight the three branches of government ("It's the executive branch's job to interpret law"); who coins ridiculous words ("Hispanos," "arbolist," "subliminable," "resignate," "transformationed"); who habitually says the opposite of what he intends ("the death tax is good for people from all walks of life!") sounds like a grade-A imbecile.

And if you don't care to pursue the matter any further, that view will suffice. George W. Bush has governed, for the most part, the way any airhead might, undermining the fiscal condition of the nation, squandering the goodwill of the world after Sept. 11, and allowing huge problems (global warming, entitlement spending, AIDS) to metastasize toward catastrophe through a combination of ideology, incomprehension, and indifference. If Bush isn't exactly the moron he sounds, his synaptic misfirings offer a plausible proxy for the idiocy of his presidency."