[Cincinatus' Wife]

Those who deny Bush's popularity and his appeal aren't so much living in Nuremberg as in la-la land. To millions of Americans still traumatized after September 11, watching Bush strut onto the flight deck of that aircraft carrier in his TV-friendly pilot's suit last week was a much more reassuring image than that of Big Bill getting his weenie waxed under the desk while taking congressional phone calls about Bosnia.

Now that would have been interesting campaign material.

Ushering in a Republican age

DNC's Terry McAuliffe Asks WH for Pledge Not to Use Carrier Footage in 2004 Campaign

[chance33_98]

Bump O the Morning to you!

[weegee]

All these leftist elites running around a publishing industry party spouting crackpot theories (and antiBush venom) and yet there is no leftist bias in the media. Right.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"U.S. Marines directed and orchestrated the looting of Baghdad."

boy, the person who spoke this lie, had they been male, would have been picking his teeth outta the carpet after that remark.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Bump for a very good funny read. The liberals have truly lost it.

But WARNING, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT read this article while eating of drinking unless you want to make a mess.

[Jim Robinson]

"Where does all this paranoia come from? Fluoride in the water?"

Nope. It can be blamed on the abandonment of the carbon filament standard. Think about it. Do you ever see carbon filament bulbs in schools, offices, government buildings, etc. Nope. All fluorescent lighting. Why is that? Hmmmmmmm? What kind of damage can those fluorescent rays do to a human brain? Especially if the rays are modulated with some kind of commie propaganda bias. Thirteen years of constant commie biased fluorescent ray bombardment force fed to our kids brains during their formative school years and the goobermint owns them. Two or three generations later: Whacko land.

[Reactionary]

"Where does all this paranoia come from?"

The author doesn't know? Let's run down a short list of liberal delusions to give him an idea.

Bush stole the election. Republicans are Nazis. Rich people are rich because they take money from poor people. America is a racist and sexist society.

Really. The Left has been feed Stalinist hogwash for so long it's no wonder their heads don't explode.

[alloysteel]

There is probably room in the dialogue of opinion, for honest disagreement with the Bush Adminstration. Even reasoned and logical arguments may be raised. But this is "damning with faint praise", while never taking the eye off the prize - the ruthless removal and denigration of George W. Bush as President of the United States of America.

There is an abiding, seething, and unreasoning hatred of Dubya and all he stands for. Only in the days of Richard Nixon was the tide of mob rule so high, and then they took advantage of the propensity of Republicans to allow themselves be guided by the criticism of those who did not merely wish to be heard, but who intended and expected to overrule all dissent.

Do not be fooled by this seeming condescension on the part of a spokesperson for the left. They consider themselves your moral and intellectual superiors, in the manner that humans are supposed to be so much better than, say, swine or canines. And they are just not that good. They, too, are tied to their animal antecedents. Ater all, don't they believe in Darwinism?

[Rocky]

This guy says some of his liberal cohorts have gone bonkers. And then he makes the following unsubstantiated statements and assertions, as though any sane person would know these to be true:

"as whacked out as George W. Bush may be"

"I can buy the notion that Dubya might be the worst president ever."

"nuke-slinging Harry Truman, who also set up the CIA, helped spawn the Cold War and opened the doors to Senator Joe from Wisconsin" - nuke-slinging, spawned the cold war?

"LBJ, who murdered a couple of million Vietnamese" - it was all his fault? No communist culpability?

"drunken and pilled-out Dick Nixon playing atomic roulette during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War" - talk about whacko accusations!

"it's galling to watch a smirking C-minus daddy's boy like George W. Bush get away with so much"

"the damage Bush wreaks"

"Dreams of endless war"

"As a teenager, I was attracted to the left because of its commitment to rational and cool-headed analysis" - this one really tickles me.

[AmericanVictory]

We like to think of this as the "FR Effect." The Left has always been loony. It's just that now their loony ideas are now exposed to Truth because the central command media no longer have the ability to wrongfully insist that such nutcake ideas are sane.

[William McKinley]

I know what he meant. With the 2004 presidential campaign now under way, it seems clear that as whacked out as George W. Bush may be, he's driving his opponents even crazier. Nothing short of some sort of mass hysteria has gripped everyone to the left of Condi Rice.

'Everyone is sick but me'. The guy doesn't have it hit him that, if he considers Bush to be 'whacked out', then it probably is a good indication that he has gone a bit nuts himself.

[Reaganesque]

It was amusing to watch the Birchers and the extreme right twist themselves up into feverish rants against secret U.N. cabals, one-world government and, yes, water fluoridation. Let's not become like them.

To late, pal. They're already there. Have been for years.

[Prodigal Son]

As a teenager, I was attracted to the left because of its commitment to rational and cool-headed analysis.

Goodness...

[Gorzaloon]

As a teenager, I was attracted to the left because of its commitment to rational and cool-headed analysis.

..Then I got a girlfriend, and all the Bad Thoughts went away.

[Nick Danger]

I dunno, I sort of like this guy. C'mon folks, let's admit it: four years ago we were every bit as nuts. I am just thrilled to see that the tables have turned — that Bush drives them every bit as crazy as Clinton drove us.

We had threads right here proclaiming that Clinton would stage a coup; that he would never leave. Instead of Nazis, we had Communist Chinese under the beds. The only difference is, we were right. I actually found a little red book of Mao's thoughts under my bed, and it didn't get there by itself.

I can't really laugh at this guy for thinking that Bush is some doofus who lives to pad corporate pockets. That's just politics. It's the same reason I believe that Clinton had people murdered.

The good news, though, is that Clinton did leave office, even if he took some furniture and silverware on his way out. Bush is in, and he is every bit as good as Clinton was at turning his political opponents into frustrated, angry conspiracy kooks.

Plus, they are very likely to get a re-run, not of the 1992 election, but of 1996. Their party will nominate some hack like Gephardt, and down he'll go. We'll see him next making ads for Viagra.

By 2006 these guys should be ready for Happy Acres. They don't have any sort of religion to comfort them, and that will be a disadvantage. I was finally able to conclude that Clinton had sold his soul to the devil, and that this explained his remarkable ability to dodge all spears and come out smiling. The lefties will just have to go nuts. Bwaaaa ha ha.

[BlueOneGolf]

It seems the author is pointing out what has become so very obvious in the past year. The Left's kooks are now the Left's mainstream. Yeah, we've got our share of loons on the Right but the majority of people in the country are mainstream, good, hard working, average Americans and they ARE Conservative generally in their beliefs. President Bush will win quite handily in '04 and we will broaden our majority status in Congress and in many state Legislatures.
I'm not worried and I look forward to cleaning their clocks next November.

[philman_36]

All I can say in response is...HUH?!
And I'm considered a "nut job". ROTFLOL

[section9]

With unemployment at an eight-year high, consumer confidence stalled, and even some moderate Republicans bailing on the most insidious tax-cut measures, the administration's domestic program is in tatters. Plans for privatizing Medicare and Social Security have been scuttled by the soured stock market. Dreams of endless war seem to be crashing on the hard beach of Iraqi Shia intransigence and decaying security in Afghanistan. With the unexpected demotion of Occupation Proconsul Jay Garner this week, there are even suggestions that the balance of power in the administration might be tipping away from the neoconservative Jacobins and back toward the corporate types.

Too bad he published this when he did. Support for bringing forward tax relief has gone up in the polls. The Senate appears to have firmed up. Medicare and SS were never going to be "privatised", so that's a straw man, and Iraq is going along pretty well, thank you very much.

Afghanistan is still hit and miss, but that's because of the poltical nature of the Afghanis: it's always warlordism, and always will be.

Anyway, Bush won't be beaten, and you can take that to the bank. He's not tone deaf like his father. He is right that Bush is driving his opponents crazy because Bush is following Clinton's playbook that was used against the Republicans in 1998. Only Bush isn't lying through his teeth like Clinton was. That will pay enormous dividends.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[NYCVirago]

This column is pretty sensible, even though it's written by a liberal. I particularly liked this part:

To millions of Americans still traumatized after September 11, watching Bush strut onto the flight deck of that aircraft carrier in his TV-friendly pilot's suit last week was a much more reassuring image than that of Big Bill getting his weenie waxed under the desk while taking congressional phone calls about Bosnia.

That says it all.

[cars for sale]

but in this tripe what is missing ?? what is this author hiding ? What is so terrible that this writer has
the better answers ? Because notice,he doesn't outright
tell ya......SOCIALISM....is this authors creed. There are
by my count 11 factual lies in this piece of whinny
damnits...................Now to my point and one not
harped on enuf here in Freeperland....The UNITED NATIONS.

Or better called Dem2. The american political party has,effectively, republicans and democrats. America has an unshakable constitution and is religion steeped. Not to mention thos weapons......and american dems can't win
with power grabbing and rights attacking socialist/marxist
controlling ideas.....Fly over won't vote for it,EVER.

Soooooooo, inflate the U N. and walla Dem2. The socialist/marxist agenda w/o the inconvienance of a VOTE.

So Dem1 invented Dem2 to bypass democracy. Hillary,in2000
said it herself....." Popular vote is best and besides
campaigning for electoral votes is soooooo hard"

[sweetliberty]

That is the closest thing to a semi-reasonable liberal rant I have seen in a long time. This is where he lost me:

"...I was attracted to the left because of its commitment to rational and cool-headed analysis"

LOL!