Are all Bush voters brain-damaged?

[Syrinx]

I find it hard to believe that almost half of American voters are brain-damaged, but that might happen again. How can we prevent it? How can you explain it?

[physioex]

1. Nooo your wrong....

They are voting for the gravy train or brain damage... :evilgrin:

[Syrinx]

6. wasn't that an Ozzy song?

.... Climb onto the gravy trainnnn...

:)

[physioex]

7. Noo someone sang it before Ozzy....

What is Frank Sinatra??

[guitar man]

2. The ones I know

Sold their souls for a $600 tax advance check and a writeoff on an SUV

[Arianrhod]

29. And the ones I knew just beamed with pride over it. n/t

[VolcanoJen]

3. A friend of mine said, "I'd be so ashamed to put him on my car."

Just today, in fact.

Wednesday, at the Kerry-Edwards Rally in Dayton, many of the volunteers watched on as the 50+, organized, pro-Bush contingent parked themselves on an embankment, complete with banners, signs, and bullhorns.

I give them a lot of credit... I mean, it takes a lot of chutzpah to openly resist in an unpopular environment, but so many of us were itching to just talk to them.

How on earth can they support him so? What do they like best... the lies, the war dead, or the deficit? I wouldn't even know where to begin.

[Paradise]

27. It's so serious, yet you managed to let me find the humor in it!

LOL! Thanks VolcanoJen! :hi:

[LibertyorDeath]

4. No although it appears this way most of the time

They are Scared insecure people

Many of whom have been taught to HATE.

Fear & Hate are their defining characteristics. IMO

[Warren DeMontague]

5. They Share His Values.

Values, Values, Values.

Can't you see the man has values?

It takes some pretty hefty values to run the deficit into the roof while slathering billions of dollars worth of gov't no-bid gravy out to your pals. Takes values a-plenty to wave the bible in one hand and the flag in the other while you shill for saudi oil princes and kill for greed. And what spells heartwarming, middle-american values more than telling maw and paw kettle you stick up fer em (mostly 'cuz you're taking on the ferminists, gays, and sekoolar humansts in san frinsisco and noo york citay) while you ship their jobs off to India and screw their kids out of what few health benefits they may still have?

They're counting that the fear of terror, the hate of gays, the loathing of abortion and outrage over pictures of nekkid ladies and anger that people are having sex that isn't procreative and isn't even joyless and humorless will outweigh the fact that the economy has tanked and kids are coming home in boxes and all we've gotten out of this white house is a basket full of cheap, dangerous lies.

"Values."

[eowyn70]

8. typical Bushie

My mom's neighbors live in a trailer in the Ghetto, "In The Ghetto" Chorus please. They have 5 kids and The Man of the house is an itinerant Preacher. The wife has told me that the Rats are infesting the trailer, and they cannot afford food. So I ask why vote Bush, and the reply is that "GOD speaks to Bush" . OK, Cant God get RID of the Rats??????????????

[opihimoimoi]

9. Loloism, its gone Ebolaesque... its in the air, the water, the food

Brain Theft 101, 305, 773

The Stepford Sheep is Programed for OBEDIENCE...

OBEY

OBEY

OBEY ,, else God gonna get ya....

[Disturbed]

14. Anyone that is Middle Class or below...

who is pro shrub is just plain stupid. No other explanation fits.

BushCo is devastating the Middle Class. Under BushCo Health Care Costs are up and will keep going up, jobs are being lost and the ones available are lower paying and many without any benefits. State sales taxes are going up. Social Services are shrinking. Fire and Police services are being depleted. The standard of living is going down. The evironment is being degraded which also causes health problems. Schools are being starved of funds.

BushCo is only good for the wealthy. These are some of the reasons that the Middle Class and below are just plain stupid for supporting a Right Wing Admin. that has disdain for them and Amerika.

[eowyn70]

10. christian right wing taliban

Do not send hate mail. I speak of the "Christians" notice the quotes, who blow up abortion clinics, who put up the Ten Commandments in Public Courthouses, ETC. They Right Wing are no better than the Taliban

[eowyn70]

12. yes opi, but they forget we true PATRIOTS

GOP excludes we "unfortunates" such as minorities, gays, women, the young, etc

[eowyn70]

13. We are Evil, I Tell's ya Evil

We are Evil because We DREAM of a world without WAR. We dream of a world where everyone gets along, the GOP hates that concept. NO War Profiteering!

[opihimoimoi]

18. We CANNOT Let the BAD overwhelm the GOOD...Bush gatta GO

They So Full of BS its pathetic...

Can I sell you some Land on Mars?? Same friggen thing...

[xxqqqzme]

11. Jeanine Garafalo

calls it a 'character flaw', i have 2 agree.

[scarface2004]

34. they fell asleep...

and the pods got em!

[joshdawg]

15. Yes!!!

[Swamp Rat]

16. A frontal lobotomy is the only cure for the Bushbots.

[Cascadian]

17. The same could be said about Germans in the 1930's.

There were a majority of people who bought into the notion that Hitler was right and the same thing is happening now in America. The only difference is half of the population does not buy into the lies.

John

[lectrobyte]

31. Actually, I think it was a minority who though Hitler was right, the rest

just stood by... I saw this link the other day in another thread, and it really hit home the message of standing up:

http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp

[goddess40]

19. Bullies

They're better so they have the 'right' to torment people. They want to belong to the winning side no matter what.

[mermaid]

20. No, some of them are Dain-Bramaged...n/t

n/t

[Worthless Teen]

My parents are big Bushies

and they base their vote primarily on social issues: abortion, gay marriage, etc, w/o even considering the war (and my friggin brother is over there) and economy...it's pretty sad.

[proud patriot]

21. I think they all have been hypnotized

Seriously , It's like only key phrases matter
to them . As long as bush utters those phrases
they respond identically . I watched his speech
yesterday and this was my observation .

It was really CREEPY x(

[Individualist]

22. Some probably are

Most are willfully ignorant.

[Droopy]

23. You know, I think there are two main reasons

people vote for Bush and Republicans in general. One is financial. There's the tax cuts and for some reason some people are sold on the idea that Republicans are better for the economy because they are pro-big business. The other reason has to do with morality. Fundies vote Republican because they are the pro-life party and because they see them as the pro-Christianity party. This second group hasn't looked at their bible too closely, though, for if they did they would see that Bush is just paying lip service to Christian issues and in reality has very little to do with putting forth true Christian ideas.

[mermaid]

24. It's More Than That...

bush validates what they already WANT to believe. They want to believe GLBT folk are evil people who will subvert and recruit their children, and lead to the moral decay of this country, and the collapse of civilization. It's easier than THINKING.

Besides, especially as people get older, they get set in their ways, and comfortable with their ideals, beliefs and ideologies, and the idea of re-examining those is daunting to them...they'd rather cling to what is comfortable to them, and what validates their narrow, racist, bigoted, prejudiced, hate-filled ideals.

And the 'Pukes know it, too.

[kayell]

25. More like brain-washed. Thank our "free media"

At least in the Soviet Union people knew not to believe Pravda.

[Zynx]

26. Bush appeals to the unsophisticated voter.

The unsophisticated voter likes short simple statements, simple policy, and simple beliefs. They love things like "Bring 'em on.", "Iraq and Al-Qaeda", "God Bless America" because they don't like to think out policy matters at all. These people allow Bush to get away with his bullshit.

[seabeyond]

28. sittin at the club friday with two

one brought up the commission 9/11 report and blaming cia for perception saddam involved in 9/11, not bush and cheney, i went off. from day two after 9/11 we knew was obl and saddam had nothing to do with it. bushco presenting lie, not cia ect........both sat listening and another old couple at another table, i wasnt paying attention too

how can they vote for bush we say with all the info out. these people are busy with lies, they dont believe or listen to media, they think both sides are equally corrupt and dont listen to any of it.

they dont know

that is how he has the numbers and that is why when repug actually sits for 2 hours and watches the movie, they get mad, they shift. it is the first they have heard...........

it isnt dumb, it is they dont know.

two weeks prior sittin and talking to another friend, she admitted, knows nothing of kerry and less of bush

[Malva Zebrina]

30. I had to turn off Cspan--it was full of brain damaged callers

one caller from Georgia insisted to Joe Trippi that McCain was not smeared by Bush in the primary race and that McClellan was not called unpatriotic and one of the reasons she gave was because it was not reported in the papers, and she finished up by tacitly calling Trippi a liar saying that if you repeat a lie over and over people will believe it the truth :eyes: To Trippi's credit, he did not react--how he managed to keep a distance i don't know. Another twangy voice, a man from Mississippi, said that Kerry is running a hate campaign

[JCMach1]

32. brainwashed

[myvotedidntcount]

33. Just a thought, but it makes sense to me...

I can't remember if it was on The Daily Show or on Real Time w/ Bill Maher, but a guest (may have been Janeane Garafalo?) suggested that a lot of the Bush supporters may simply be embarrassed that they fell for him this long, therefore making them ashamed to admit that they were wrong. If so, I would imagine this could apply to a lot of the older voters who may be lifelong republicans. They are simply too ashamed to admit that they were duped. It happens a lot when the elderly are scammed, even by telemarketers or other deceptive sales people. In a lot of instances they never tell anyone about it, even close family members. They just live with the guilt.