How many of you know someone like Bush and how do you deal with it?

[wake.up.america]

Such people I try to avoid.

[monmouth]

1. I have a dear childhood friend who is married to an exact replica

of GWB. I have always been civil to him for her sake, but he made a remark to me one time about my being single (I'm divorced over 20 yrs) and I should find a man or "people will think I'm a lezbo" (his words). I then stated I'd rather be a "lezbo" than have to live with a stupid shit like him. He decided I was just kidding, but still isn't sure. I now completely ignore him, and only speak with her on the phone. He's quite wealthy, cocky and I guess you could call him handsome... He wanted to get on the phone one time when I was talking to her, trying to be all chummy, I hung up.. Felt good.

[Solly Mack]

2. I no longer speak to them

No contact whatsoever.

[PCIntern]

3. Yes, in college...

and at my 25th reunion, it turned out that he had been elected to public office in Michigan...one of the fancy districts of course, and was insufferable. He was one of the few heirs to a big sporting goods fortune and a real ahil fellow well met asshole, even in the early 70's he was an anachronism. I farted in his general direction.

[maine_raptor]

4. Very simply

I give them a cookie, pat them on the head, and tell them to go out and play in the traffic.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Treat them like the sociopaths they are.

[Ian David]

6. I have jettisoned my last Republicker friend.

Life is so much simpler and less frustrating.

[LiberalEsto]

7. I avoid the subject

and refuse to discuss it if they bring it up. This is only for a couple of lifelong friends who are otherwise fairly reasonable.

In some cases I try to point out areas where we might agree -- such as the fact that the war has dragged on far too long, that the troops are suffering, that middle class jobs are disappearing overseas. Once you find a common bond, you might plant a seed that gets the other person to start thinking a bit.

[fasttense]

8. What else can you do but avoid them?

There is a close relative of my husband's who is just like the bushes. She doesn't see reality, even when you carry it over to her. I just stopped talking to her. I felt bad but there were so many things I couldn't talk about around her.

There were so many rules of discussion, I frequently couldn't keep track of them and would invariably slip up. You couldn't talk about family, politics, her mistakes (your mistakes were fair game), and her wacko opinions without her storming off in a huff. So, I just don't deal with her. It makes things easier. Seems though that other people are willing to put up with her rules of discussion and she does have superficial relationships that she calls friendship.

[MissWaverly]

9. GWB is an alcoholic just like my dad was

His rants are very similar to my dad's and my dad also was an momma's boy that expected
to be cosseted his entire life. He developed alcoholic dementia and had to be institutionalized and heavily medicated the last 2 years of his life.

[ewoden]

10. Momma's boy of privilege

He screwed up one too many times in his teens, got in trouble with the law, Daddy wouldn't bail him out. Ended up getting the choice many first offenders got back in the late 60's. Fast forward several months later he finds himself in my unit in Southeast Asia. He still acted like a royal class child of privilege. No big deal, so long as he showed for patrol and did his job. He started on the bottle, started ratting out his platoon members for minor infractions in search for a desk job. Our Sgt. got wind, he put the guy up on point one day in the worst thicket of elephant grass I ever saw. A couple of clicks in, no more problem.

[C_U_L8R]

11. I put a newspaper on the floor

and give him a firm "no" everytime he poops on the carpet.

Crate training is also helpful.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

12. My boss had the same personality. I quit the job and still

don't have another. But it was worth it.

[seabeyond]

13. i have a brother like him. high iq. a drunk. compulsive liar.

the whole attitude bush has thinking he is such a bad ass and all the while has had the worst self image there is. trying to prove himself and he sits at 47 and will never succeed cause he has programmed failure within. yet with that same charm so many speak of with bush that does nothing for me.

how do i deal with it? he is family and he has three kids that he is raising that i need to be a part of their lives. i never accept his lies, though he never owns he lies. and right now we are taking breaks from each other. he use to be my favorite and closest brother. it is sad to see what he has done with his life and what it does with his kids. there is no fixing him.

[Kansas Wyatt]

14. Denounce them as crackpot loons and repeat over and over again

Pounce on all of their ideas as lunacy, and never give them and inch. Point out all of their contradictions, and keep pointing them out. Go on the offensive, and never let them spew their bumper sticker slogans.

The Democratic Party would be amazed at how well it completely shuts them down, rather than pretending bullshit rhetoric deserves to be treated with respect.