Quite a number of exasperating missteps and bad appointments really sunk Bush’s second-term. For me, the very day that Bush came out and disparagingly called the border Minutemen “vigilantes” while pushing for amnesty, well, from that day forward, I never uttered a single word in his defense ever again, on any issue, at any time. I had supported him and voted for him, but at that moment, he was pretty much dead to me.
The only good lesson this taught me (along with the GOP backstabbing of Palin) is to maintain a intense wariness, and no longer just have that instinctual ‘default’ position that a “Republican” will generically share my beliefs and values. In fact, after three decades of voting GOP, I’ve really a gained a deep, deep, overriding pool of mistrust in the Republican Party because of all of this.
” Quite a number of exasperating missteps and bad appointments really sunk Bush’s second-term. For me, the very day that Bush came out and disparagingly called the border Minutemen “vigilantes” while pushing for amnesty, well, from that day forward, I never uttered a single word in his defense ever again, on any issue, at any time”
Same here. That was just too much.