If you voted for Bush can you tell me why...and if you didn't can you tell me why not????

Question

Ok Im having a really hard time trying to figure out why anyone wanted that fool in office in the first place....and a second time was just more ridiculous than having him in office the first....but I do want to try to understand why people voted him in again.

Answer 1

The minute I heard that man open his mouth I knew he was bad news. I am watching 60 minutes right now and watching the kids who are maimed for life because of this rediculous war, and the Iraqi innocents, the US soldiers, the pain and suffering of so many that we never see on the media. This is a rare glimpse and its horrific. We should all write to BUSH right now after all last week he patted his chest admitting (or sort of ) his mistakes and saying he was responsible. How can he live with his conscience? Anyone of you idiots who voted for him especially more than once, should help to get his butt out of tehre or at least empower congress and senate so that he doesnot cause moreharm than he has already done. This man had no sense of the real world, world politics and other cultures and yet you all voted for him? He should have known tehre would be an insurgency and life would be worse for the Iraqis. So waht about democracy, they dont want what we have. Our so called democracy. Give me a break..I am so angry after the 60 minutes show, I want to know if BUSH WATCHED IT.

This country should hang its head in shame, especially if you republicans dont do something to reverse the wrongs by supporting checks and balances, because this mayhem was done in your name... or was it in the name of JESUS?

Answer 2

Well, looking at the candidates and actually watching the debates is where I made my decisions

Bush vs Gore - Gore lied far too often, and far to obviously for me to take him seriously. He did not invent the internet (the idea had been around since WWII), he did not fall to sleep by the union song (which was recorded 20 years after his birth), and his policies were unworkable in my opinion. Besides Gore already had 2 terms in office under Clinton, and that administration accomplished zip. Better to go with a change than stay static.
As an example - the question came up during the debates concerning education reform. Gore said he would institute nationwide testing, and when a school district is found to be failing government standards - the Fed would come in and start over. This included FIRING all the teachers, REPLACING all the books, AND if need be bulldozing down and rebuilding the schools. A bigger threat to the unions who supposedly supported him I can't imagine! I didn't agree with the school voucher programs Bush put on the table - but it did seem more workable.

Bush vs Kerry - I voted for Nader. Again I didn't trust the Democratic candidate - Kerry's voting record was questionable, his past was nothing to be proud of, and his overall character seemed untrustworthy. During the debates, I felt all of Kerry's answers were far to vague to provide any information. Bush by contrast seemed to have gotten us into a mess in Iraq, with no obvious plan to get out. He had delivered on all his other campaign promises, but I wasn't convinced he deserved a second term. Besides the mudslinging from both sides got in the way of the issues and lowered both major candidates on my scale.

Coming elections - I personally consider myself an independent who leans more conservative. That does not mean I wouldn't consider a democrat if that party should put someone up WORTH voting for! That hasn't happened since Mondale, and it's not looking like it'll happen again anytime soon!

Answer 3

I agree with his ideas for the country so I voted for him. My income is up 40%, my taxes are down, no one is bombing the US, my son is officer in military & benefits are up - I could go on but you see I am not buying you whine. The Democrats did not give any other choice with Plastic Man Gore - I invented the Internet. Even the Democrats did not want him 4 yrs later. Then Kerry & Edwards - Kerry with no ideas & a foreign vulgar talking wife for 1st Lady & VP Edwards I made every dime of my money sueing businesses on frivilous lawsuits ( Edwards lives a couple of miles from me & he tried to use his wife's cancer to get votes at end) Edwards could not carry his home state. Edward's wife just criticized Hillary on TV. You guys need to get it together before whining about us.

Valmay - The war started after 9/11 which was 6 months after he took office. Democrats whine he was not in military & he never killed anyone, so what would make you know he was
"blood thirsty" before he was elected? NOTHING!

Answer 4

I voted for him because of his character. He knows where he stands on something. Kerry would say whatever, whoever wanted him to say at any given time.

I haven't heard of a Bush scandal. Only the made up ones and the ones of people around him. He not only has to fight the terrorists from the middle east, but it seems he has to fight the liberal press, too. Everyone keeps calling him a liar, because that's what they've heard, etc. People call him names. I've found that the dems like to call people names & cuss. It just makes me support him more. Dems are so worried that Bush will leave a good legacy that they have to fight him.

I wonder why people call him a fool. Do they just like to call names? When I say why I don't like Kerry, or why I wouldn't want him in the white house, I don't just call him a name. Also, if he DID manipulate the election....then he must be pretty smart.

AND....the whole arguement about the rich yadayada....I'm not rich by any means and I'm doing better under Bush than I ever did under Clinton....although I'm not sure why...I just don't understand that whole "rich people" argument.

Answer 5

I voted for Bush in 2000 but I didn't vote at all in 2004.

I voted for him in 2000 because I wanted him and not Al Gore to appoint Supreme Court Justices.

I'll be willing to bet that a very, very large number of people who voted for Bush in 2004 did so because wanted him and not John Kerry to appoint Supreme Court Justices.

Answer 6

I voted for him the first time because I thought Gore was a freaking idiot. Oh, am I ashamed of that one, but I'll admit to it. To me at the time Bush was the lesser of two evils. By 2004 I was so angry with Bush and his administration that I worked on the Kerry campaign, though I had secretly hoped for a better candidate. The things that alarmed me the most about Bush was not only his mismanagement of the war, but his disregard for the Constitution and his penchant for courting the Religious Right. Reagan was a religious man, but he knew enough to keep the office and his faith separate. Bush just used them shamelessly and it was obvious to everyone but them. I came to think him more of a demagogue than a President.

Answer 7

I voted for Bush because I didn't think a damned, waffling, Hanoi traitor deserved to be in the office of president. Bush has a backbone where Kerry only goes with the flow...like feces being flushed.

Answer 8

I only wonder how Bush has manipulated the votes without being discovered. It's obvious that the majority of the US citizens are against his administration.
Too many US soldiers died for nothing.
Too much $ burnt in the fire of wars from the tax-payers.

Our Mother Earth is sick. It nurtures on Love energy, not war.

Answer 9

Didn't you see Kerry's Wife??? SCARY!!! Also,Kerry is scary!! (Especially that photo of him with Jane "traitor" Fonda!!! At least Bush has the guts to go after those murdering SOB's. Can't say that about Mr. Romeo Clinton!!!!

Answer 10

I voted for Bush both times because he lines up the closest with my beliefs.
Small Govt and strong moral beliefs including pro-life, 1 man and 1 woman marriage, protecting America (and the world) from terrorism. He is a conservative, etc. Progressive secularists (ie liberals) do not realize how destructive their beliefs really are to this country and themselves.