24% still that still think Bush was a good President and 24% feel that Palin could do a good job as President. Are they the exact same 24% in both cases? How do they justify their positions in the flood of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?
2008-11-21T11:34:29Z
Good answer David l. Your response changes the way I will interpret the “fool some of the people all of the time axiom. Nothing is as good as W’s try with that quote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A
Lark2008-11-20T22:06:33Z
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In 2004 the Guardian newspaper in London organized a letter-writing campaign to registered voters in swing districts to persuade them against reelecting Bush. They provided factual evidence of his failures and explained the ramifications of them on America and the world-at-large. One Texan summed up the mentality of the staunch Bush supporters: "Real Americans don't care what tea-drinking pansies think. Real Americans vote for George W. Bush." Yes, there is overwhelming evidence about the enormity of Bush's failures and the tremendous detriment his ineffectual leadership and unwise decisions have had on this country and the international community, but 24% of the population doesn't see that because the GOP has branded itself as being as All-American as apple pie and baseball, and Bush is their team captain, and they view things through those skewed lenses. For some people the division between Blue and Red is as clear as the differences between black and white, and under no circumstances will they break family tradition and cross over to the other side. The "Right" party presents itself as being the one that honors war heroes, defends the US from foreign attack, upholds Christian standards, and believes in old-fashioned, red-blooded American values, and that to vote against them in favor of the pro-choice, Hollywood-friendly, gay supporting "liberals" would be an act of patriotic disloyalty. They use Christ as a political tool and propaganda techniques such as the fear-mongering ones in the Proposition 8 ads that claimed that if gay marriage was permitted it would be taught in schools to children as young as six (the California superintendent said they were blatantly lying). Despite the fact that Bush is the son of a former president and grew up in a wealthy family who sent him to the prestigious Philips Andover boarding school, Harvard and Yale, and has battled drugs and alcohol, he is seen as the good ole Christian boy you'd want to invite to a family picnic because he's the middle-aged white dad with the Texan accent and cowboy boots. Sarah Palin is the hockey mom other hockey moms identify with and support. People seem to forget that they are electing a person to run a country, not to be a personal role model, friend or religious figure. Ironically, Obama, who was born to a teenage mother, grew up in a humble family, and earned his achievements on his own accord is seen by them as being the one who is "elitist."
Ideally, every one would form their political viewpoints based on educated, unbiased, clear-cut facts rather than propaganda, stereotypes and tradition, but unfortunately some people vote with emotion rather than reason.
Remember when Abraham Lincoln said "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time"? I guess that twenty four percent are some of the people.
Have you ever gone swimming in one of those pools with an artificial current? You close your eyes and drift, and it sort of seems like cheating to look where the water is taking you. Well, those people live their whole lives that way.
They are the 24% who actually benefited from the Bush administration. I know one person who has made a killing in Blackwater and other paramilitary 'security' companies.