Anger at Bush Expected to Drive Voter Turnout

the Bizzarro World of cons.
They say they are for smaller government, and create the largest federal government ever, including a whole new GIANT agency, Hopeless Suckyourity.
They say they are for less government spending and then pass the most expensive, PORK LADEN bills in recent history...the Highway Bill, Military Appropriations, Education, Medicare (AND, at the same time they managed to make it almost incomprehensible), and on and on......
They say they are for personal responsibility and from the top on down, they rarely own up to their mistakes, much less FIX the crap they have created.
They said they would balance the budget and then gave us huge budged deficits and turned a surplus into a debt INSTANTLY.
They say their tax cuts mostly go the poor and middle class, and they DID NOT...not just the rich, but the SUPER RICH got BY FAR the biggest slice of that pie.
They said they were for "family values", whatever THAT means, and at every turn when they could enact legislation which could help the majority of families, they do the opposite.
So, as Bamba says, must be cognitive dissonance...or they are just lying, hypocritical bastards. I kinda like the ring of the second one.
But, take heart, folks, WE won't get fooled AGAIN. The Bush Crime Family, Inc. and their subsidiaries the Repudlicker Bozo Legislation Manufacturing Co. and the Neo Con Scam and Cover-up Corporation are destined for bankrupcy court. Let's hope we don't beat them there.

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Yip thats the quotes i was thinking off very nicely put Mr Lincoln i sometimes wonder why poloticians dont speak in such articulate terms now? have we become too stupid to understand such language or do we expect so little from our MSP's and members of congress?

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate,
hate leads to suffering... its amazing how right a small green dude is!

Yeah but you cant feel but frustrated with them they only have to open their eyes and minds it isn,t hard to do. I cant understand why people just wont think for themselves last time I checked even the most fanatical republican wasnt a sheep but a human with a mind and brain of their own to take in information, process that information and come to their own conclusions.
Im just so glad we dont get Fox news in this country, mind you it would probably be breaking every media fairness rule in the book! Could you imagine reporting the facts! and having an equal amount of time dedicated to all parties? its not like America has many political parties views to express we have 7 different parties in the scottish governmnet, Fox would overload how could they cope with so many view points!!

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate,
hate leads to suffering... its amazing how right a small green dude is!

great advice
reassuring

graham

bastia---precisely! I was in Army stationed in Alamam-ER!

Yeah, they're about 200 years behind.

Mauri Povich,Archy Bunker, Hee Haaw mentality.

The RAPTURE Reich-wing !!

Weird place!!

But, there are 30-35% that are SANE liberals that are trapped!!

They should move.

"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows him."

Either way, it's a great line. Sort of applies to the goose-stepping cons of the world like JPN. I'm always saying: "blindly following those that would lead you to your own destruction doesn't make you righteous, it simply makes you stupid."

It's pretty much the same sentiment.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful and committed citizens can change the world."

Check out my blog:

http://truth-for-a-change.blogspot.com/

........last five years, if you AREN'T pissed off, you aren't paying attention. I was pissed that the President was selected rather than elected.
As far as the charge of whining, I would argue that an overview of the posts on this site would indicate that it's the cons who whine and get all riled up because people apply rational thought and historical data to back up our contentions that the Rapepudlicker Party is out of control and needs to be put back in the box.
And as far as having ideas.....I haven't heard ANYTHING from the Cons about how they would fix the problems, because they won't admit to having screwed anything up. They think that record budget AND trade deficits are ok, 'cause their beloved Reichfurher Bushbaby ok's them. This "cult of personality" allowing the destruction of the principles this country was built on, and on which a strong middle class was built upon.....the irony is that most of the cons here are MIDDLE CLASS......they are eagerly enabling the people who are actively making their way of life untenable. Self-destruction is neurotic, or psychotic. And if it was just THEM, then ok, go for it....but they intend to have us all to follow them over the precipice. Just say NO. No farther.

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

How long will you be mad when the Dems take back the House and Senate and your Pres becomes a lame duck? Once November has come and gone the next site is 2008 where the lame duck gets served for Christmas dinner.

Lead, Follow, or Get the hell out of the way, spoken like a person driving an SUV to big for the road that has no reason to be driving one, and just ran over the family of 4 in the Ford focus thinking it was a speed bump.

about us whining.

TrickSY---You pussies are outed !!! Even science confirms it Buwwaaaa haaa haaaaaa. Hey, you still haven't answerd. What's a DD214? C'mon ChickenHawk!!!

Have fun reading below. he he he he

How to spot a baby conservative

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KID POLITICS | Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid and traditional....

Mar. 19, 2006. 10:45 AM

KURT KLEINER

SPECIAL TO THE STAR --- TORONTO STAR

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.

But the new results are worth a look. In the 1960s Jack Block and his wife and fellow professor Jeanne Block (now deceased) began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids as part of a general study of personality. The kids' personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months. There's no reason to think political bias skewed the ratings — the investigators were not looking at political orientation back then. Even if they had been, it's unlikely that 3- and 4-year-olds would have had much idea about their political leanings.

A few decades later, Block followed up with more surveys, looking again at personality, and this time at politics, too. The whiny kids tended to grow up conservative, and turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity.

The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests. The girls were still outgoing, but the young men tended to turn a little introspective.

Block admits in his paper that liberal Berkeley is not representative of the whole country. But within his sample, he says, the results hold. He reasons that insecure kids look for the reassurance provided by tradition and authority, and find it in conservative politics. The more confident kids are eager to explore alternatives to the way things are, and find liberal politics more congenial.

In a society that values self-confidence and out-goingness, it's a mostly flattering picture for liberals. It also runs contrary to the American stereotype of wimpy liberals and strong conservatives.

Of course, if you're studying the psychology of politics, you shouldn't be surprised to get a political reaction. Similar work by John T. Jost of Stanford and colleagues in 2003 drew a political backlash. The researchers reviewed 44 years worth of studies into the psychology of conservatism, and concluded that people who are dogmatic, fearful, intolerant of ambiguity and uncertainty, and who crave order and structure are more likely to gravitate to conservatism. Critics branded it the "conservatives are crazy" study and accused the authors of a political bias.

Jost welcomed the new study, saying it lends support to his conclusions. But Jeff Greenberg, a social psychologist at the University of Arizona who was critical of Jost's study, was less impressed.

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`I found (the Jack Block study) to be biased, shoddy work, poor science at best'

Jeff Greenberg

University of Arizona

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"I found it to be biased, shoddy work, poor science at best," he said of the Block study. He thinks insecure, defensive, rigid people can as easily gravitate to left-wing ideologies as right-wing ones. He suspects that in Communist China, those kinds of people would likely become fervid party members.

The results do raise some obvious questions. Are nursery school teachers in the conservative heartland cursed with classes filled with little proto-conservative whiners?

Or does an insecure little boy raised in Idaho or Alberta surrounded by conservatives turn instead to liberalism?

Or do the whiny kids grow up conservative along with the majority of their more confident peers, while only the kids with poor impulse control turn liberal?

Part of the answer is that personality is not the only factor that determines political leanings. For instance, there was a .27 correlation between being self-reliant in nursery school and being a liberal as an adult. Another way of saying it is that self-reliance predicts statistically about 7 per cent of the variance between kids who became liberal and those who became conservative. (If every self-reliant kid became a liberal and none became conservatives, it would predict 100 per cent of the variance). Seven per cent is fairly strong for social science, but it still leaves an awful lot of room for other influences, such as friends, family, education, personal experience and plain old intellect.

For conservatives whose feelings are still hurt, there is a more flattering way for them to look at the results. Even if they really did tend to be insecure complainers as kids, they might simply have recognized that the world is a scary, unfair place.

Their grown-up conclusion that the safest thing is to stick to tradition could well be the right one. As for their "rigidity," maybe that's just moral certainty.

The grown-up liberal men, on the other hand, with their introspection and recognition of complexity in the world, could be seen as self-indulgent and ineffectual.

Whether anyone's feelings are hurt or not, the work suggests that personality and emotions play a bigger role in our political leanings than we think. All of us, liberal or conservative, feel as though we've reached our political opinions by carefully weighing the evidence and exercising our best judgment. But it could be that all of that careful reasoning is just after-the-fact self-justification. What if personality forms our political outlook, with reason coming along behind, rationalizing after the fact?

It could be that whom we vote for has less to do with our judgments about tax policy or free trade or health care, and more with the personalities we've been stuck with since we were kids.

Kurt Kleiner is a Toronto-based science writer