How is it that the Bushes are able to command the loyalty of so

[Veggie Meathead]

many people?There are many families as rich or even richer and yet they do not seem to have the abilty to command unquestioning obedience and loyalty like the Bushes.The Bushes are not intellectual giants by any means or even on a par with the Kennedys.In the looks department, they are certainly no match for the Kennedys.

It is simply amazing when you think about it why they have such a tightlipped groupies doing their bidding.

[asjr]

1. That has puzzled me since 1999! I think My God, how can anyone

support that man. Do they put their brains on hold?

[billbuckhead]

4. Check out Bush body count

<http://bushbodycount.com/>

[leftofthedial]

2. they are the hood ornaments, not the car

the car is the biggest, baddest one on the block. And the one with the loudest stereo.

[necso]

5. !

[21winner]

3. They got it from Joe Stalin.

He knew how to rule over a huge empire. Imagine a secomd term.

[MissMarple]

6. Power, they have it, others want it. Money Honey Holly Coors

thinks George is a STAR! She said the people who pick on George hated Our Lord, too. That is from the current New Yorker. I'm sorry I don't have a link right now.

[robbedvoter]

7. Have you seen The Sopranos? Kitty Kelly sees a parallel

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/16/tsurumi/in...

Students who challenged and embarrassed Bush in class would then become the subject of a whispering campaign by him, Tsurumi said. "In class, he couldn't challenge them. But after class, he sometimes came up to me in the hallway and started bad-mouthing those students who had challenged him. He would complain that someone was drinking too much. It was innuendo and lies. So that's how I knew, behind his smile and his smirk, that he was a very insecure, cunning and vengeful guy."

[K-W]

8. The Bushes are the loyal ones, not the other people.

The Bushes get power because they are loyal to the real power brokers. The money men, and the politicos.

The Bushes have no ideology. They are politicians in the ugliest sense of the word.

[radwriter0555]

9. the same techniques that hitler used...

kkkarl rove uses.

[bain_sidhe]

10. Well... Poppy DID run the CIA for a while...

Who knows what he knows? For that matter, who knows WHO he knows?

Jes' sayin'

[ihaveaquestion]

11. Here's what I heard...

I think it was yesterday on Washington Journal.

Of the republicans...

- About 20% will vote for anyone with an R after their name, no matter what.
- About 30% will vote for anyone who is anti-abortion, no matter what.
- A certain percentage will vote for anyone who's anti-gun control and there's the anti-liberal/commie crowd. Let's say this is another 20%.

That leaves about 30% of republicans who are basically idiots - who vote the way Limbaugh, Hannity and Savage tell them to.

I think this makes a good deal of sense.

[serryjw]

13. Your correct

20% because of fiscal issues..mostly men

20% of the anti-gay, pro-choice and pro-gun makes up their =


40% base

[mistertrickster]

12. They represent the TRUE BELIEVERS--capitalism, anti-intellectualism,

raw power, living large, arrogance and right wing Jesus.

It's not what they do or even what they say, it's what their followers WANT THEM TO BE IN THEIR OWN MINDS.

Just like external reality has no place in Bush's mind, the reality of the Bush family needs have no resemblence to the image of what they represent to the unwavering faithful.

[w4rma]

14. I'm not sure how cults work, really. Are there any good books on how they

operate that anyone can recommend? Also a good book on proven methodologies about how to get folks out of a cult would be useful, also.