Is the conservative cult of personality surrounding President Bush the greatest threat to our Republic?

Question

They elevate faith over reason, personality over intelligence and myopic determination over honor and integrity.

For those who need a definition:

[ A cult of personality or personality cult arises when a country's leader uses mass media to create a larger-than-life public image through unquestioning flattery and praise. Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships but some can be found in some democracies as well. ]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality

Answer 1

LOL. I love how some of the rightwing posters are now trying to distance themselves from Bush by claiming he's not a conservative. Talk about a bad case of buyer's remorse.

To answer your question, such a cult of personality will still remain a serious threat to the Republic. This cultist mindset will still possess his most devoted, brain-dead followers even after Bush himself leaves office, eventually transferring itself upon a newly anointed leader of the reactionary right (possibly Rudy "Nine Eleven" Giuliani). After all, the cult of personality that once surrounded Reagan still lingers within the neoconservatives.

Answer 2

No. The greatest threat to the US America republic is apathy.
Census Details Voter Turnout for 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501965.html

The point? 64 percent of 18 to older people voted in 2004. what would have the result been if 95 or more percent had voted? The same goes for the 2000 presidential election.

This is your President of the United States.
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

Do you really want this man holding the "red" button?

Answer 3

Boy are *you* a dreamer.... President Bush isn't a Conservative... and he doesn't have universal backing on everything that he does.... however, we don't believe in trashing the President for a few disagreements... nor do we undermine the war effort just because we don't agree in every aspect of it's implementation... In fact we don't trash this country around the world to assuage some self loathing and to atone for some imagined sin... In fact the greatest threat to this republic is the encouragement of Islamic Jihadist enemies and trying to surrender and snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.

Answer 4

What's a "conservative cult of personality"? Does that actually mean something or did you just make it up? George Bush isn't a conservative. Faith over reason? Like trying to stop everyone from driving an SUV in order to prevent summer? At least George Bush will admit his form of Christianity is faith/religion. I'd like to see the global warming alarmists do the same.

Thanks for the definition. So do you think the mainstream media shows George Bush in a good light? We hear about the failures in Iraq far more than we hear about the progress and success. We hear about soldiers that lost a leg or have been accused of doing something illegal, never individual stories of heroism.

To answer your question, no.

Answer 5

Please evidence your $500 welfare check increase and your 50% increse in food stamps and your having being qualified for disability . After that I want to haul your vile conservative butt down to places where you can tell your filth tale to the millions who are really suffering and destroyed by this econmomic disaster in hundreds of unemployment offices,thousands of charitable food depots, ,divorce courts, hospitals and other places where good people are trying to keep it together . You disgust me as you use your joke of all this horrid reality just to make a banal repulsive political statement which is full of filthy dispicable lies . And you disgusting lot try and pawn yourselves off as represenrtatives of "family values" .

Answer 6

I believe this administration if a case of the rich ruling aristocrats domination of the middle class and the poor.
They want everyone to be poor but them and work for nothing like they have the set up in Mexico.
They view the little people as expendable.

Answer 7

Cult is always dangerous when it over-rides reason.
But I don't actually think there are too many, just the
noise they make to cheer each other up, mimes mass.

Answer 8

Why thank you for that comment.It was really thought out and researched thoroughly. But i don't think being a conservative is a cult thing.

Answer 9

Not anymore - that group is small enough to fill their local Wal-Mart in Crawford - which is where they all work. Its convenient that way for them.

Answer 10

The greatest threat to our republic is:
Pelosi
Kennedy
Reid
Murtha
Kerry
Boxer
All liberal "give away our country" half assed liberals