Bush backers showing loyalty to a fault (great article on the KoolAid set)

[MADem]

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/12669024.htm

...I had thought Bush physically incapable of taking responsibility. Having watched him brazen his way through successive botches and bungles here and abroad with an Alfred E. Newman grin and a maddening insistence that botches and bungles were part of the master plan, I thought Bush's eyes would roll back if he even came close to saying, "My bad."

So I have a question for the Bush jihadists, that shrinking but stubborn minority that still thinks Dubya walks on water and calls down rain. What's it going to take to make you folks stop sending me e-mails by the dozens railing at how the great and powerful Bush is being mistreated by that darned liberal media?...It is, of course, their standard defense, akin to a child sticking index fingers in her ears and shouting "Lalalalala, I can't hear you!" until you stop committing the sin of reason. In this case, the argument goes that Bush is being blamed for failures that should be assigned to state and local officials in Louisiana and Mississippi. It's their fault, not his.

So to recap: Media say Bush bears responsibility. Much of the American public says Bush bears responsibility. In an unprecedented show of lucidity, Bush takes responsibility.

Bush jihadists say Bush is not responsible.

Seldom has the intellectual bankruptcy, situational outrage and robotic partisanship of that stratum of the electorate been more apparent. I swear, if Bush blew up the White House, they'd praise him for creating construction jobs.....

[journalist3072]

1. Easy explanation.

The kool aid drinkers don't live in the reality-based community, and neither does their leader.

They are so wed to their own ideas, even when every piece of evidence tells them they are wrong.

[tom_paine]

2. Sprirtual descendants of the Nazis

Propagandized by the same type of Machine as the Germans were, self-reinforcing, creating it's own false reality.

Der Fuhrer can do no wrong. That is the beginning and end of it for Nazis and Busheviks alike.

[agincourt]

3. Some of the stuff I hear

"The indians said not to build there 300 years ago, so it was a self inflicted wound."
"Liberals are blaming Bush for global warming, they say we never had it before."
"The LA democratic governor wouldn't allow FEMA in, Missisippi and Alabama did, that's why they had no problems."
"If FEMA would have went in sooner they would have been wiped out by the hurricane."
"AMTRAK would have evacuated New Orleans but Nagin wouldn't allow it."
"Nagin says Bush started global warming."
"No one would have died it Jeb Bush would have been governor of LA."
"People should figure their own way out of these situations, not wait for big gov't to rescue them from a hurricane."
"Bush could have solved the hurricane problem if Cindy Sheenhan hadn't been harassing him."
"We shouldn't give them no help because they trashed the Superdome."
Sometimes I think living in this red-neck state will either kill me with stupidity overload or I'll kill some braying RW ass.

[MADem]

4. Eh, forgive them, for they reallly do not know what they do

When they only have enough money to put a quarter tank of gas in their hog cars, they will see the light...and the light will say LOW FUEL!!!!!

[Zorro]

5. People with small minds

seem to shout the loudest.

It's an overcompensation for their realization that they're not very smart.