If I read it correctly, Mel Gibson never said he disliked Bush. It just gave the idea that he disagrees with him on some issues. I am afraid that if you disagree with President Bush on anything, people will decide to throw your beaten carcass to the wolves and deride you as a "typical hollywood liberal" or "rino" when your position may be the more conservative than President Bush's. I love President Bush but not everything he does. Does that make me a RINO or a liberal-lite? Without even knowing our area of disagreement or the reason for the disagreement, many would say yes, that I'm the liberal. I think that is very sad.
Yeah, I agree with you. Sometimes, conservatives behave like leftists do. We accuse leftists of lumping stuff together: union leaders want their members to be anti-capitalist, pro-abortion, anti- Iraq War, and vote Democratic Party. However, if we look at some posts here in FR, (at least some of us) we do the similar thing.
And that is on a benign day, it often seems. There are plenty of days and places, here and elsewhere, where you can disagree with a particular Bush policy or act and be hit with a good number of epithets, depending on the particular policy or act in question, and often as not the least abrasive of such epithets might be "communist," never mind merely liberal. Even as you can concur with a particular Bush policy or act and be hit, likewise depending on the particular policy or act, with epithets the least abrasive of which, often as not, might be "fascist," never mind Bushbot.