Are we back to the "Conservatives stayed home" mantra?
I would expect that conservatives voted overwhelmingly for Bush and again, overwhelmingly, for McCain...and I do truly dislike McCain!
For my part, I strongly disagree with both McC and GWB on immigration; totally and without condition. I also disagree with both in their compulsion to get along with those who would bury them in an instant - and pretty much did bury McCain.
However; remember that the people, not politicians and certainly not the media, turned back the late administration/McCain amnesty scheme and that the same people would have done it again even under a McCain presidency. None of my disagreements are adequate to define as "dripping, smoldering hatred".
Since the election I have sensed a growing undercurrent of remorse(?) from "middle of the road" Obama voters - not conservatives - and in each case their vote for Obama, or failure to vote at all, was attributed to "everyone I know hated Bush so much..."
When I tell them I wasn't overfond of him either, but didn't use that to pi%% away a vote, they get a whipped puppy look and go all quiet.
The true believers, in contrast, go directly to comparisons of Obama-magic versus (conservatives') envy, ignorance, evil intent, racism, bestiality, and imminent ruin.
If a few in this forum actually do hate the man or his policies, so be It!
And, note that I reserve the right never to drink designer label tequila with the same smoldering fervor.
In the meantime, get over the blame-a-conservative thing because without (Sarah Palin and) a bunch of conservatives who did go out and vote, McCain would be road kill instead of just an embarrassment.
Yes some of them HERE obviously hate the man.
If you aren’t among them then my factual statement doesn’t include you.
It is also factual that a boatload of conservatives stayed home, which is their right to do.
Of course Sarah Palin helped very many to turn out who would have otherwise stayed home or just simply not marked a presidential selection or alternatively, written in a name. Without her the loss would have been much worse.
I don’t know what the problem is with what I wrote.
It wasn’t about blaming anyone for the loss.
It was about Bush hatred by both Leftists and conservatives and my comments regarding that particular thing.
I profoundly disagree with him on several issues. I note where he’s done some good, conservative things...while reminding he didn’t run as a conservative but as a “compassionate conservative”...major difference.
This article was about unreasoning Leftist hatred, and I said some conservatives exhibit same.
A poster even argued it was appropriate literally to HATE him for areas he’s differed with us on. That was an example of what I was saying. DUH.
So be it (conservative Bush hatred) you say, even though you’re not among the haters.
Okay...