Why do some people still support Bush?

Answer 1

I wish one of the repubs would get off his partisan high horse and answer this very good question. Clearly there are a lot of us who simply cannot see why anyone would support someone who will lie, and when caught at it continue giving the same lie. I would like to understand what people think - do you not believe the media about the lying, do you think he is doing a good job and that is what is important (and if so, please details about economy, terrorism, etc.), or do you think he is bad but the alternative offered by the democrats is even worse?

If yahoo answers is to be useful simple partisan sniping on either side is not much help. I think this is a good question, asked relatively politely and neutrally (ie he could have said "How can anyone support a lying war criminal as our president", but he did not), and deserves a respectful answer. I would be happy to answer, but I don't understand how anyone can support a lying war criminal as our president.

farkas419, thank you for adding that. Some I can see, some I don't care about: talking, and so on. But one question: What WMD? There was absolutely nothing found. The UN, ridiculed by the administration running up to the war, was 100% right. Even the Republican spin doctors have not been able to come up with any example. Saddam had them before the first war and got rid of them afterwards, that is not disputed. There were *no* WMD when the US moved in, despite a really intensive search. The best they could come up with was an abandoned truck that could have been used for bio - or for fertilizer. Even the spokesman could not keep a straight face when presenting that "evidence".

And Bush and the GOP knew this - they knew the report of uranium from Africa was false but they presented it to the American public as proof. I supported the war at first because I trusted that the president had sources of intelligence he could not share. They turned out to be 100% false. And I do not believe the US intelligence community was that wrong when the UN was right. Mr. Bush knew there was nothing there and cynically chose the lie he thought (correctly) would paralyze the opposition to the war. Good tactics, bad strategy, bad government.

And, Osama had nothing to do with Iraq.

Answer 2

Most people, according to recent polls, are turning on Bush, but there are STILL those who defend him, and I am baffled by their sheer ignorance! I remember the Haldemans, the Ehrlichmans, the Mitchells, and all those who still supported Richard Nixon even AFTER Nixon RESIGNED IN DISGRACE!!! This is similar, except for the criminal act(s) involved. Nixon stupidly lied about an office break-in by some idiot supporters who were out for blood against the Democrats, despite the fact that it was unnecessary, and he won his re-election by a landslide! Bush lies whenever his lips move, and his criminal actions involve people dying, people killing, and people committing illegal activity on a daily basis! There is NO CONSCIENCE within the man, and his supporters are just as pathetic, because they condone it all, and they refuse to admit it!! And there is NO SENSE trying to TALK SENSE to his supporters, because they are inherently evil, and they are morally and emotionally bankrupt--parts of their brain and their psyche must truly be dead, because they just do not, or WILL NOT GET IT!!! Thank goodness we only have to put up with the likes of them for a few more weeks, after which the Congress and the Senate will both be predominantly Democrats! Then we can get back to the work that actually BENEFITS OUR PEOPLE, while our soldiers and other innocents are dying every day in Iraq, and while Bush's war profiteer friends and family are stuffing their wallets on the same days!!! In my entire life, I have not witnessed such evil, and I hope we have the good sense to vote those people into office who have the conviction of their principals, and not the unprincipled few who need to be convicted!!!

Answer 3

This is the best question I've seen in a long time. I wonder this EVERYDAY. If you noticed none of the supporters gave you a straight answer. I'm a former republican, not quite ready to call myself a democrat. I don't understand the blind support after one proven incompetancy after another.
I especially liked the answerer who said that they like him for the same reason we like Clinton. I didn't vote for Clinton, but after I saw what he did for our country, I didn't stubbornly and blindly hold on to my party lines. I supported him and ended up liking him.
OK, here's A FEW of the reasons why we like Clinton:
1) He turned our history's largest deficit into a surplus of considerable proportions
2) He could speak in complete sentences and knew where other countries were and could pronounce the word "nuclear" (no, it's not "new-killer")
3) Clinton's indiscretions can't be compared to cocaine and alcoholism and didn't damage his brain and ability to work as a president.
4) The civilized world didn't hate us under Clinton and we had SOME regard for international laws that we'd helped dictate.
5) Clinton was not a Christian version of an Ayatollah, where the leader forgets that when religion and politics mix, it's not a pretty picture and that extremists of all religions sound and act just like each other, wether they wear a turban, a yamaka, or a blue suit.
6) Clinton was not surrounded by war monger, blood thirsty, finacially driven, double standarded, advisors in the form of VP, Secretary of State, Sec of defense and foreign relation advosors.
I still don't see why people support Bush, not even from their answers. It's not only NOT un-American to question your public servants, it's a guaranteed right and duty of an American to do so. If you're against flag burning, then you should be against the total disintegration of our constitution that we've seen in the past 6 years.
What's happened to our country should be unconscionable to all its citizens. I wish more people were better informed.

Answer 4

I aid him, hes performed what he believed was once proper, no longer effortless.He requested the Congress for permission to make use of drive to oust Saddam, it was once additionally in aid of a selection handed within the 90s making that a National coverage of the US. Up till 2003 main Democrats additionally acknowledged that Saddam had guns of Mass Destrution and was once seeking to construct or aquire extra. In 2002 Bush tried to established a countrywide comprensive Energy coverage that could have addressed our disorders and prompted the progress of trade power. Stopped by way of shortsighted liberals that had been dissatisfied that he had went to gurus within the discipline for recommendation. The greatest predicament with Katrina was once that the nearby and State Government (each Democrat run) had no plans for evac the populace and didn't permit federal support in for a few days. What he did within the so known as "wiretapping" we captured a few hundred mobile numbers in Afganistan. Those numbers had been listened in on. The premise being that it was once simply feasible that folks within the US had been contributors of Al Quada, for the reason that the parties of nine-eleven a riskless precaution (you do do not forget that date do not you?) Far as torture is worried, have you ever ever heard of Dan Pearl? What we do to acquire know-how from folks that do such matters is not anything. And from what I have learn of it what now we have performed is moderate in comparison to what occurs to captured Americans. So I aid the president and thank God that anybody you aid isn't president.

Answer 5

Because they run out of republicans to support.

Answer 6

Because they do not listen to Michael Moore and moron.org

Answer 7

They haven't been told it is okay to support somebody else by the Republican Party.

Answer 8

Loyalty

Answer 9

because "staying the course" is #1 virtue. Ask any lemming.

Answer 10

Because he has the ability to make a decision and stick to his convictions, regardless of how unpopular that decision may be with the Media.