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No, peace and harmony didn’t reign after Bush was murdered. Rather, the REAL jack-booted fascists from Cheney on down finally got on with destroying civilization. How sophisticated! Braaa-Vo!!!

What is really going on here is that leftists have to invent imaginary, strawman fascists to demolish in order to overcome the dissonce due to their cowering before the real, turbaned ones.

I wonder if these self-proclaimed “sophisticated” and supposedly “brave” filmakers would dare show the Theo Van Gogh film “Submission” along side their simple-minded drivel.

When my neighbor (a registered independent) heard about this movie, he said “The Democrats can’t be that stupid, can they? Guess I’ll have to vote for whoever the GOP runs in 2008″.

The Dems are killing themselves by making this personal.

The film was made in Britain, but some people can’t wait to vaguely blame it on, or somehow associate it with, ‘the Democrats’.

Will it ‘cost’ the Democrats in the midterm elections, by creating sympathy for Bush? Possibly. But I doubt the effect will be significant if it exists at all.

However, he seems to never, ever be given a fair shake, and is constantly under the worst vitriolic attacks — like this one.

I understand the film depicts an anti-war demonstrator committing a political assassination. That sounds more like an attack on anti-war demonstrators than on Bush.

Sorry… I’m still trying to figure out exactly how clichÈ,†strawman arguments, wishful thinking, and cartoonish exaggeration can be considered sophisticated.

Let me second Gary Rosen’s agreement with your post. Our lefty friends call it stupidity and obtuseness, re Bush. I call it vision (with perhaps a less than stellar implementation) and a belief that he is doing the right thing for this country. He is accused of many motivations for his actions. I deem them all false. For I fail to see what advantage or persona of history he might be seeking, given his decisions. And, honestly, I do not think he is concerned with personal adulation.

I admit, my most basic support and admiration of GWB comes from his ‘not so simple act’ of doing SOMETHING. Something, to stop our descent into appeasement and eventual disappearance, as a force for good in this world. One can either believe that or not. I happen too. (to or too, I have no idea)

You echo my own feelings almost precisely. I still don’t consider myself any kind of “right-winger” – I’m middle-of-the-road on economic matters and still very liberal on “lifestyle” issues – and sometimes I feel like a hypocrite for supporting Bush. But between the Democratic party having caved in to its Michael Moore wing, and the MSM devoting itself wholeheartedly to dishonest BDS-driven agenda-mongering, I can’t help but want to stay in his corner.

At least that would be a nice change from the permenant crypto-theocracy Hollywood thinks will be ushered in after a big emergency (see Escape from LA and V for Vendetta).

More likely we’d see massive doses of Cheney Derangement Syndrom and look back on sedate rhettoric that characterized the Bush 43 era.

The moonbats get their jollies while they are separated from their money. Sane people are repelled, and more likely to give Bush the benefit of any doubt. Poor taste is not criminal.

Look at the “success” of the preceding attacks on the president. Impeachment cost the Republicans. Soros funded attacks on Bush haven’t hurt him.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d blame Rove. The Dems are killing themselves by making this personal. There is so much to dislike about Bush’s policies – immigration, federal spending, prescription drugs, etc even from a conservative standpoint that the Republicans are vulnerable. Instead, idiots focus on the one area where Bush is right – WOT and attack the man. Oh, and offer no solutions.

No solutions might not be their worst strategy since Rahm Emanuel’s call for a draft is not, in my opinion, a winner. Nor is running from Iraq. What’s the Democrat slogan for 2006 going to be? We’ve got nothing or worse?