Thoughts on the Wingnuts

One of the interesting, though perhaps not surprising, aspects of George W. Bush's precipitous drop in support over the past couple of years can be found in the feelings self-described conservative Republicans hold towards this failed president.


Bush's support among Democrats and liberals has always been exceedingly low, falling somewhere in the teens or low 20s as a percentage of the overall group. [And who those 15-percenters could possibly be that support the boob-in-chief is beyond me.]


Among independents, while there were perhaps, maybe, 50% willing to take a flyer on Dubya after 9/11, most fell away long ago. This left Crawford's Kennebunkport's finest son with only the Right for whom to turn for support, and as he has flubbed (to be kind) everything he's touched over the last six years, it had to have been a struggle to hold on to even those of the hard-core right.


What I find fascinating (and deplorable) is that even as Bush has watched his support evaporate among reality-based Americans, the reasons those on the right have abandoned him are not the same reasons most thinking Americans rejected this president long ago.


If you're to ask a one-time hard-core Bush supporter from the right why they've turned against the Decider, it's not the War; it's not Katrina; it's not the civil liberties abuses; it's not the attorney general/US attorney scandal; it's not the rank hypocrisy of Clear Skies or Healthy Forests or No Child Left Behind; it's not Abu Gahrib or Walter Reed or the lying or the manipulating or the 3728 dead troops.


No, the reason most conservatives have rejected Bush is because... [check yourself here, prepare for spit take] he's TOO LIBERAL.


These are people without a political soul. These are people for whom victory is the only reward. As a result, they can reject George Bush as too liberal, while at the same time supporting people like Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson, each of whom from a practical standpoint holds political positions that should be anathema to any self-respecting conservative (Christian or otherwise). For these people, victory is the only goal, principles be damned.


They should all go to hell in the same handbasket.