THIS describes those who keep bashing Bush, while claiming to be conservatives:
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The ignorance of the typical American when it comes to politics is often staggering.
This ignorance is the real reason special interest groups and demagogues have the success they do (though it's a wonder they don't have more). For example, we are constantly told by extreme left-wing groups and more than a few rightwing groups that there's no difference between the political parties.
As anyone who pays attention to politics knows, this is monumental nonsense on stilts; informed people understand that a Dean administration will be very different from a Bush administration.
But if you get much of your news from late-night comics - as is the case with nearly half of young voters, according to the Pew Research Center - it makes complete sense that you'd think there's no difference between the parties, in much the same way people who don't understand physics think protons and electrons are pretty much the same thing.
But Americans don't like being told they're the problem. So when they eventually tune into politics they tend to blame the candidates, as if it's the actors' fault you don't understand the play when you arrive for the last five minutes.
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/7566396.htmWhat are you suggesting? That Mr. Bush will not be responsible for his own actions if he signs into law an extension of the so-called 'assault weapons' ban? Or that he was not responsible for his own actions, when he stated before the fact that he would sign it into law? What's your point?
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