Reply #15: That's just it. They knew that conservative success depended on deception

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In the lead up to the war, you could read it explicitly: If Bush told the truth about his plans, the costs of war, the intel, the liberals would stop him. So how could we expect the truth?

Fact is, the Bushites are dealing in a different coin. They think Bush is lying, but only to the other guy and the liberals. They accept winks and nods and code words and assurances from Rush and Karl and others about what Bush is REALLY like.

It is a profoundly anti democratic attitude, in which a portion of the electorate knows the president gets his radical, minority agenda through only by lying to the majority.