Why do people on the left only bash Bush instead of answering the yahoo question?

Answer 1

If the moderates werent such punks they would be extremist.

Answer 2

Frankly, the reason Bush gets the abuse is that Bush is the easiest
target.

Personally, I think attacking Bush is pretty pointless now. He has
won both elections. Constitutionally, he can't win more.

The fact that he is an idiot who does not even understand the
policies he is trying to implement, though historically interesting,
ain't going to feed the poor or make any country respect us or or or ...

"Conservative" and "Liberal" used to be two different ways of looking
at the same problem which could usually create an answer that
was acceptable to both. An answer that was not acceptable to
both was probably the wrong answer.

Now, the labels are tied up in certain specific issues and associated with
certain people.

I could list off a lot of things that this administration has done that
are demonstrably wrong, but taking pot shots at Bush isn't going to
change that. Short of impeaching him, we're stuck with him.

The best thing we can do, in my opinion, is make him powerless.

We're not quite at the point where "agree with Bush = wrong" but
its getting there. Certainly, there are few politicians that are going
to advertise themselves as "Bush Conservatives", and that is a good
thing.

I am hoping that this will also eliminate the "Reagan Conservative",
for as much as I enjoyed watching our late President speak, the
man caused far more harm than good. Most of his economic
policies were reversed WHILE HE WAS IN OFFICE.

We can't afford his sort of convervatism ... But he was fun to watch.

It was a little bit like watching Clint Eastwood take on the smurfs.

Being the hideous liberal that I am, I guess I should be happy that
Bush's presidency may well have the effect of swinging the government
to the left. However, I'd rather we did it through intelligent discussion
than watching a bull in a China shop.

Who here does not believe that the Bush administration is beholden
to the energy companies? What would it take to prove it to you?
How many smoking guns do you want?

Never-the-less, the corruption of this administration does not
represent any inate wrongess of the conservative point of view.
It is only an indictment of the current bunch of crooks.

Answer 3

I notice that most of the answers on here are simply bashing liberals. Very mature. Here's a thought: I find your over-generalization rather rude. I personally do my best to answer questions thoughtfully. Also, if many liberals do "only bash Bush," then that's their prerogative. We are liberals in a nation with conservatives in power. Do you expect people to just twiddle their thumbs and think "oh, well, that's alright then." No, they're going to voice their opinions, as is their right. Leave us alone. So some people can't find anything better to do with their time than fling insults at the president. Is flinging them back going to make any difference? No. Think about this: If you were a conservative with a liberal president, do you think you would sit idly by and wistle at the policies you didn't agree with and proposed laws you found insufferable, or would you sometimes find it necessary to vent? I think ranting on here is much preferable to, say, walking on the street and hitting the next person you meet who doesn't agree with your views. You can't please everyone all the time, so let the displeased vent.


I find it sad that I now feel the need to defend myself.

1) Regardless of who our elected leaders are, I have standards to which I stick.

2) Clinton is not president anymore. JFK had several affairs during his presidency. Clinton served two terms, and you may notice that our country is still standing.

3) Some "real issues:"
-Gay marriage
-Sex education
-Birth control
-Oil in Alaska

4) I know how to use both inductive and deductive reasoning, and I do my best not to resort to ad hominem.

5) So what about a "Bush~Cheney~'04" bumper sticker? Ad hominem works both ways.

6) Communism works fine in theory. The problem comes when you actually try to use it. Remember that.

7) At the end of Clinton's administration, there was actually a national surplus. Now, the U.S. has a lovely large debt again.

8) If the only card liberals can play is the personal attack, then most of the people answering this question are hypocrits.

9) I resent being called a communist. I think Chairman Mao would also resent me being called a communist.

10) I strive for compassion, I do not condone Clinton's affair, and no one has yet been able to accuse me of racism.

11) The coach of the French soccer team was big into astrology and therefore refused to let any scorpios play on his team, regardless of talent. People have stupid prejudices. Not just some people, all people.

Answer 4

People on the left bash policy/lawmakers that they don't like all the time. Instead of coming up with solutions to the problems they just want to blame the Republicans and say it's all Bush's fault.

Answer 5

I must admit that I am a somewhat lefty, okay I'm a big lefty, though my political test labels me as a centrist. I would also like to assert that I am not an anti-republican, I am only an anti-Bush. Bush to me looks like your next door neighbor and personally I don't want my neighbor running the country. Bush simply comes off as an idiot. I thought it was funny when Cheney basically blew Bush away when it came down to interviews during the second election.

Answer 6

People on the left (they call themselves liberals, I call them communists) can't answer the question because they have no answers, only hate. For commies, free speech only applies to leftist hate speech, crimes should only be crimes if committed by Republicans, never rapists like Bill Clinton or murderers like Teddy Kennedy. Even racism is okay as long as it's the left doing it.

Honestly, they simply have no answers. Howard Dean doesn't like black people, that's why he doesn't hire them. Democratic congressmen can say jokes about finding European Indians in 7/11s. Cinthea McKinney can hit police because they are white. Al Gore can tell lies about having Union songs sung to him as a child when he was grown up, and he can avoid REAL military service. It never ends with the communist liberal double standard, so ALWAYS CALL THEM on that!!!!!

Nothing any liberal has to say matters at all unless they are willing to hold their own filthy scumbag people to the same standards they want to hold REAL Americans (Republicans) to.

Answer 7

Easy.

They are not trained to use deductive OR inductive reasoning. Therefore, because they can't meaningfully discuss ideas, they resort to attacking an individual.

Case in point: ever notice how Middle Easterners carry likenesses of the people they support, instead of written slogans...? Same thing; for them, the individual person IS the message.

Answer 8

Its easy to bash Bush.

Answer 9

People on the right tend to do the same from time to tie.

I blame a bicameral political party system to go along with bicameral legilature.

Answer 10

because they can't! their ideas SUCK......socialist policy has been a miserable FAILURE in every country it's ever been tried. look at the unemployment rates, the gdp, the deficit and the inflation numbers of places like france, germany, any place in central/south america before you spout off, libs. they don't want to expose themselves as the pseudo-communists that they are. they only have one card to play.....the personal attack. just read all the responses you're about to get!

Answer 11

This always happens when you have a controversial President in office. Clinton got it too. When you put yourself in the spot light you are free game. Just ask Britty Spears