Why is Bush so popular?

[scottcsmith]

Maybe someone who is or knows a conservative can explain it to me. I don't get it. Bush is extremely popular with a lot of people. But what has he done? Surely someone can give me a list of specific accomplishments his administration is responsible for that I can look at and say, "Okay, now I get it."

The job market sucks, with 2.4 million jobs lost since Bush took office. The unemployment rate is going down, a bit, down to 5.7% in December 2003. Lots of technical jobs being shipped to India and other countries. Also, the federal government is spending money like a Hilton sibling days away from her trust fund being cut off.

No WMDs in Iraq. No Osama Bin Laden. Hundreds of troops killed in Iraq. Thousands injured. Thousands of Iraqis dead and injured.

As far as the Bush tax cuts go...well, my family saved about $400 a year, which isn't all that much, and my property taxes have gone up, so I'm actually in the red.

I also stop and consider the fact that, until the age of 40, Bush was a drunk. Isn't that significant? People do not seem to care. He was a failed businessman, and by all accounts he was not the greatest governor in Texas history.

So what is it? I guess it's partly charisma, and mainly an emotional connection he made with the public following 9/11.

I just don't get it.

[BeatleBoot]

1. In the same way Bonnie and Clyde, Dillenger

et al were popular in their day.

America loves its crooks!

[wysi]

2. He reminds people that...

... the American dream is still alive, sort of. Any idiot frat boy can become President, as long as he's selected for the job!

[Darwin2002]

3. he has a 50% approval rating; that's not so hot and it's terrible

for a "war" president.

[Deja Q]

4. Unemployment is down thanks to retail chains...

I dunno anymore. I think it's the beginning of the end. The CEOs who are pissing on us all know that too...

[Catshrink]

5. I don't think he is...

Most people I talk to think he's a moran.

[many a good man]

6. Cognitive dissonance

They can't admit they could be sooooo wrong. Being anti-liberal, anti-Democratic defines who they are; they can't admit the things they believe in can lead this country down the sewer. They can't believe their leader can really be this dishonest and inept. No amount of proof can make them change their minds because then they would have to re-think everything else they believe in, including their self-identity.

[woofless]

17. Excellent analysis.

Thanks.

Woof

[Lostmessage]

7. So many people hate him

That is why he is so popular.

[elfin]

8. Because the American public is even

more stupid than he is. Plus they think he seems like "a nice guy."

[SoCalDem]

9. Number ONE.. The press says that everyone loves him

Number TWO.. Lots of ignorant "COPS watchin',Nascar lovin',Bar brawlin',simpleminded,emptyheaded,bible thumpin',flag wavin',thrice divorced, big haired,mullet cropped,Branson lovin',cross burnin',minority hatin',knuckleheads" like the fact that he's a "tough talkin' cowboy..

Number THREE.. See number ONE and TWO..

His support is a mile wide and a quarter inch deep..

He's a phony, but then his supporters are phonies too, so it's a perfect fit.

[philosophie_en_rose]

18. You're right. Media bias + Lazy Citizens = Bush love.

Advisor: Little girl, do you think you can memorize this by dinnertime tomorrow?

Lisa: ``Mr. Burns: your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?''

Advisor: Very good.

Lisa: Mm. Well, as long as I'm asking something, can I ask him to assuage my fears that he's contaminating the planet in a manner that may one day render it uninhabitable?

Advisor: No, dear. The card question'll be fine.

-- ``Two Cars in Every Garage, Three Eyes on Every Fish''



``Only a moron wouldn't cast his vote for Monty Burns.''

[lovedems]

10. It's the fundies. Fundies, fundies, fundies.

The ones who think Jesus gave * his job. It doesn't matter that he is a mass murderer, he was appointed by God.

Edit: Hence, foreign and domestic policy don't matter.

[Cleita]

11. Because Fox sez so.

"This popular President, blah, blah."
"This very popular President, blah, blah."
"This really popular President, blah, blah."

As Hitler said in Mein Kampf on propaganda. Pick a few key points and repeat them over and over and eventually eveyone will believe what you say.

[Ilsa]

12. Plain spoken good ol' boy bullshit.

They don't even know him. They don't know what a stupid-assed phony he is.
"Windshield cowboy"
A C student, as a legacy? How many buildings on campus Either University) did poppy have to finance for a phukking "C"?

[arwalden]

13. Help From The Media "Horse"

They accentuate the positive
Eliminate the negative
And latch on to the affirmative
Don't mess with Mr. Inbetween

[VOX]

14. He's got a perpetual progaganda machine, spinning and spinning...

Telling all the sheeple who are suseptible to this brand of bull**** that he's "moral," "decisive," "strong," "God-fearing," and a bunch of other falsehoods.


http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10225
...Roger Ailes, the director of Fox News. Ailes is the former Republican party media consultant who, according to Time Magazine, engineered Richard Nixon's 1968 political resurrection, scripted Ronald Reagan's 1984 debate comeback and was responsible for rescuing George Bush Senior's floundering presidential campaign in 1988.
<snip>

[cosmicdot]

15. I don't think he is ... he's an infommercial ... $19.95 if you order now

people over at the Free Republic likely have better answers for this question ...

the media, money and image makers can sell the public pet rocks if they wanted to


I like his own words when he described himself

"You know, I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation. I've never done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office."


`this almost deserves to be in General Discussion`

[rasputin1952]

16. bush is no where as popular as people would have you believe...

the polls are skewed, and those that are asked to answer said polls are selected because of their slanted views.

When you add to the equation that those that virtually ALL of the photo-ops are by invitation only, and there is virtually no coverage of of those protesting bush and his policies, people feel that the nation in general give him high marks. Of the several hundred I've spoken to in NE, 5, count 'em, 5, think bush is a good president. Now I will not say that my counts are anywhere near scientific, but they certainly show me that people are NOT happy with this pinhead. He lives in a bubble, and you can add that no Dem front runner had emerged, therefore, he is what the people have to look at, (regardless of how ugly that is).

IMHO, Clark will win the nomination, (possibly Dean), and then things will get interesting. Once the Dem candidates stop acting like kids, and get to taking on bush about issues, he's toast.

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