A new study from the University of Maryland confirms what the rational among us have known all along: that most Bush supporters are living in a fantasy world.
According to the study, 47% of Bush supporters still believe that Iraq had WMD, and 25% that it had a major program for developing them. Remember, Bush himself has joked about his inability to find WMD in Iraq, challenged Kerry as to whether he’d still have approved the war knowing that such WMD would not be found, and virtually every member of his administration has been forced to defend the war in the absence of WMD on every political show in the country, every day for the last year.
The continued ignorance of his supporters is astounding. What would the press say if 47% of Democrats continued to believe that Clinton did not have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky?
Bush supporters are equally ignorant about Iraq’s ties to Al Qaeda, Iraq’s involvement in 9/11, the 9/11 Commission’s report, and what the rest of the world thinks of the U.S. and our war in Iraq.
In fact, Bush supporters are more ignorant or misinformed about his positions than Kerry supporters are of his in virtually every category, with the sole exception being defense spending, in which a higher percentage correctly perceived that Bush wishes to expand it than Kerry supporters who correctly thought that Kerry wished to keep it the same.
The brief report is truly fascinating reading, riddled with phrases like “cognitive dissidence,” “ignore dissonant information,” and “magnitude of the denial goes beyond the ordinary.”
If anyone is wondering how this moron is still running even in the popular vote, here’s your answer.
Granted, many of Bush’s supporters are bone-ignorant of the facts, but so are many of Kerry’s supporters. The tragic fact is that most Americans, on both sides of the aisle, are woefully uninformed about the issues.
Well, misinformed dolts they may be, but there sure is a bunch of them. Judging from the thunderous chorus of boos when Kerry’s face appeared on the screens at the sports bar where I watched the Astros-Cards game last night, it would appear that Bush has the East Texas wannabe-jock vote pretty much locked up. Hey, maybe it was just because he’s from Massachusetts, and last I checked that’s where the Boston Red Sox are located, but still…
Well, I hope Kerry will be able to console himself after losing by reminding himself that he was right all along, but simply failed to get his message across to the stupid people. That should work.
Of course, a candidate truly ready to be President would have been aware of the intelligence of the American people (or lack of it) and planned his campaign accordingly.
Ummm…He did have them. He killed thousands of his own people with them. Or is that one of the points to be ignored according to the Liberal Handbook?
Nothing. I wouldn’t be surprised if a helluva lot more than 47% still believe that it was all a vast right wing conspiracy.
Really? No ties to Al Qaeda? Wish somebody had told Clinton that.
“ARE AL QAEDA’S links to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq just a fantasy of the Bush administration? Hardly. The Clinton administration also warned the American public about those ties and defended its response to al Qaeda terror by citing an Iraqi connection.” http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/527uwabl.asp
Also in that same article is a discussion of Iraq’s buying nerve gas from the al Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum. Destroying that plant was one of the few things Clinton did right while he was in office.
Even if we set aside the rather sloppy writing of the report (e.g., “…why are Bush supporters holding so clinging so tightly to beliefs…”) and presume that they were substantially less sloppy with their numbers, you seem to have reached a different conclusion from the report. It does not say that Bush supporters are too stupid to breathe; rather, it says that:
Newsflash: We better invade Germany, I hear they are taking over Europe and are killng Jews and stuff.
Your inability to tell current events from past events is frightening.
Egads, some of those same idiots are on this very board.
Does anyone else get the feeling that Bush followers are some sort of cult? I saw a picture of Bush the other day with a halo around his head. People are deifying the guy, for god sakes. They actually think he’s some sort of holy prophet.
Personally, when I see him, I see a clown. If he were to put on an orange wig and a red foam nose, I probably wouldn’t notice. A clown. An evil, knife-wielding clown.
