20+ percent of Americans still approve of Bush. So who are THEY voting for?

[DeadElephant_ORG]

If John McCain is such a "maverick", if he's in this race to ruffle Republican feathers, and to fix all those terrible Republican mistakes, if his campaign is a repudiation of Bush, and if - as he says - a vote for him means that "Change is coming...", then tell me why the HELL are all the "loyal Bushies" voting for McCain? Why did Bush himself vote for McCain? If McCain's repudiation of Bushism isn't fooling the Bushies, why does anybody expect it to fool anybody else? I mean, I understand that every politician panders to some degree or other, but pandering doesn't work if everybody understands that you're just pandering.

The truth still matters.

Doesn't it?

[NC_Nurse]

1. The truth never mattered to those fools.

[wiggs]

2. The "R" on their foreheads is more important than who is running...if there's

a candidate with an R next to name, those 20 percenters will vote for him. It's identity, not issues that matter to them.

[elocs]

3. Adolph Hitler. Oh, I'm sorry, did I just end this thread? n/t

[DeadElephant_ORG]

4. what did that mean? You trying to end this thread?

[elocs]

5. A twist on Godwin's Law:

As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress.

Wow, guess I lose.

[DeadElephant_ORG]

6. that's interesting, but are you trying to end the thread? and if so, why?

[elocs]

8. It was meant to be a joke until I had to explain it to this extent.

It's the rare joke that can survive this much explanation.

[tom_paine]

7. Actually, there is a corollary to Godwin's Law

It reads as follows at the link below:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/tom_paine/107