paulsol the Righteous wrote:
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but I really don't think it had as much to do with his policies or 9/11 or the Iraq war as some would make it appear to.
I'm sure you're right.
Its probably got more to do with his hairstyle, or his accent or some other superficial reason. Nothing to with the illegal war of aggression/trashed economy/international reputation being in the toilet/blatant erosion of personal freedoms etc....
Most of us out here are
much to shallow with our observations to be concerning ourselves with that sort of stuff.
It probably has much more to do with the Dems panicing when they lost the presidency in 2000 and still did not have control of Congress. Because this indicated to the Washington Lobbyists that the Republicans were not just a short term fluke, and they began shifting the campaign funding flow that Dems had received for the previous 40 years to lobbying Republican candidates instead of Dem candidates. The Dems desperately needed/wanted that money, so they embarked on a massive campaign to attack Republicans at every level and in every way possible.
Folks like George Soros created private organizations who's sole purpose was to smear Republicans, and shift public opinion so that Dems could retain control. Part of that has been to create as much fear and doubt about ever decision made by a Republican as they could possibly get away with (and some of it even past that point!). They spent millions of dollars digging up any dirt they could, and creating stories when they could in order to accomplish this.
When the Iraq war came along, those same organizations funneled huge amounts of money to ensure that the public believed what they wanted them to believe about how and why the war was happening. It wasn't about violations of a cease fire agreement. That's too hard to argue against! I'm sure at some point there were a whole bunch of tiger teams tasked with figuring out the exact words they wanted the public to hear and repeat. Things like: "The war is all about oil", and "Bush lied and our soldiers died!", and "There were no WMDs". Even before the invasion began...
Do you really think that private citizens came up with those on their own? You're more naive then I thought.
It is, and has always been about which party retained control of the government. To the point that the Dems have been willing to lose a war if it means that they can get that power back. Think about that for a moment. It's scary the lengths they'll go to for power...