Why did the American people re-elect George W Bush? His election in 2000 appeared rigged. He got u into Iraq?

Answer 1

I find it hard to believe that a president with such low popularity, just weeks before election, could be re-elected......

That being said, Kerry sure went crazy in those following weeks, making him look much worse than Bush. Probably just a coincidence just like all those 'hanging chads', connections to Enron or the Carlyle Group, or Executive Orders filtering through the Intelligence Agencies, or the Texas Public School System falling apart, or trading away Sammy Sosa to the Cubs, or putting a number of Companies into the ground and walking away rich, or pretending to be Texan(he is a f!@#ing yankee), or having no 'connected' person remember seeing him in the service, or... oh, screw it.

We're all screwed... okay? I jsut said it. We are all screwed.

Hm... I'm thirsty.... milk.. water.... purple stuff... Oooo, Sunny "D"!!! Alright!!!!

Answer 2

The 2000 election was not rigged. Numerous studies have been conducted by liberals and conservatives and they all come up with the same conclusion - George Bush won a majority of the electoral college votes. If Al Gore had won his home state, he would have been President. He did not and consequently was not.

It boils down to there being a race of competing ideas. The American people voted for George Bush in 2004 because they thought he would do a better job of looking after US interests than John Kerry.

George Bush did not have a lot of support form the citizenry of other nations, but he was not running for President of France and the French were not allowed to vote in that election. Same thing with Canada, Germany et al.

Answer 3

His opponent in the 2004 election. Who would you rather vote for, John "flip-flop" Kerry, or a known mass murderer? To many people, Kerry was the bigger evil, not Bush. With that logic, look where we are now. I seriously hope that a winning Independent comes along, or at least a credible Democratic nomination, and not another Kerry. But with all these people saying they want Hillary, I think we're going to have another Bush in office come this next election.

Answer 4

Get over it.

Nobody got elected no body ran nobody lost. It was a set up from the beginning.

Who cares about that stuff anyway. The important thing is Bush led us to war which is good for business.

Do you think we would be making as much money fighting the factious global warming agenda? That's a no brainer.

Go big Red Go

Answer 5

I personally voted for Bush over Gore, because I could not stand any of Gore's self deluding lies throughout the election, and laughed at him during the debates. One question posed was - As president what would they do to improve education. Bush talked about national testing, and his voucher program as well as the No Child Left Behind act. Gore's answer was national testing, and if a school district failed, the federal government would come in, FIRE EVERYONE (think about this one if you belong to a teachers union - Gore suggested using the F word against you), tear down schools, and rebuild from scratch!

Sounds ambitious, but NOT possible! After hearing Gore's answer - and this was I believe the 2'nd televised debate, I fell off my couch laughing! I voted Bush because he seemed more down to earth, and definitely had a more realistic plan on this issue and others compared to Gore. Besides after 8 years of Clinton/Gore we did need a change then!

Last election I didn't like either candidate! For good and bad, Bush did keep all his campaign promises. And while I did and still do agree with going into Iraq (Saddam was playing games with us, did not disarm as per the treaty after the first gulf war, and whether we found WMD's or not he was under UN orders to disclose what happened to his weapons and programs, not to mention constant violations of the no-fly zone), I do think we lost the focus somewhat on bringing in Bin-Laden and shutting down Al-Quaida. Kerry on the other hand also lied, relied too heavily on his SHORT tour of duty in Vietnam, and did not adequately explain his flip-flopping votes on many issues. In short, I thought of him as a tool, subject to the often petty whims of his party. I proudly voted for a third candidate, but am glad Kerry didn't make it into office all the same!

Bush did not lie to get us into Iraq, Nor did he hide/alter evidence. That which has proven to be false, was believed by all, including foreign intelligence sources, members of the former Clinton/Gore administration (pre-bush?), and even Kerry's running mate (who was on the senate intelligence committee AND saw all of the same info as the President) to be valid! If you read the back-pages of the papers, our troops ARE indeed finding small caches of chemical weapons which Saddam was supposed to have destroyed. Early in the war we did find plans and some equipment used in the production of nuclear weapons! While his abilities were not nearly as far along as we had thought back then, it was clear that Saddam's intentions were to be a fly in that regions ointment for a very long time had coalition forces not stepped in! Now we must stay and finish the re-construction of Iraq until asked by that country's new government to leave!

Next election, I'm going to vote again for someone with authority, someone with experience, someone who is not a tool for his/her party, and hopefully someone who ideologically is more a middle of the road conservative!

Answer 6

The election only "appeared rigged" if you were a moron...as most of the voters in the disputed district must have been. They couldn't even read a ballot correctly or use a voting machine. Remember this was a Democratic district, run by democrats. *THEY* chose the ballot format... *THEY* chose to take a 3 day vacation in the middle of the recount...*THEY* are stupid, poor looses.

Answer 7

The 2004 election was rigged also. Robert Kennedy Jr recently filed a lawsuit to prove this.

Answer 8

The 2000 election was as crooked as the proverbial dog's hind leg. In 2004, Bush kept bringing up the spectre of 9/11 and hiding behind it and his religious beliefs and fooled over 49 million people into voting for him.....a great many of them members of the conservative christian right which is neither christian nor right.....the good old boys with names like Bubba and Jim Bob and women with names like Sally Mae. It just goes to show that over 49 milllion people in this country are just as stupid as he is.

Answer 9

well actually before Irag even most democrats said they would go in and then after it turned into a diaster theychanged there minds cause they had that luxary. Bush is the guy for the job ...he is dealing with alot around the world right now and he is handling it all pretty well. I will take bush over any other leader in the world right now.

Answer 10

You're kidding, right? We haven't had a free choice in our presidential elections in over 20 years! It's always the better of two evils. Where are the honest citizens that could make good politicians??? Politics is so filthy now that no moral person will get near it. On EITHER side!