bush's approval rating

[Ned]

Originally posted by Saint Marcus


Lots of non-leftists are against Bush too. Chirac, Putin. Also, 3 out of 4 Germans and Frenchmen view Bush negatively. 3 out of 4! While in France, the majority votes for right wing parties, and in Germany around half! Plenty of right wingers who dislike Bush. Similar findings in Spain and Italy, where right wingers were voted into office, but 60% still had an unfavorable view of Bush.

So far from just "commies/greens" opposing Bush, lots of right wingers dislike him too. And people don't dislike Bush because he's right wing, they dislike him (and most other republicans, and quite a few democrats) for their (in our opinion) ignorant and short sighted views on world affairs, for their overt nationalist and religious displays, etc. And this isn't limited to US presidents, guys like Berlusconi are universally dispised as well.

As I said before, Chirac is purely anti-American. It makes no difference who the president is.

When Berlusconi is "equally" despised, I begin to question just how right wing these Bush-haters are. This really is a left-right issue. Bush is not an appeaser of the left. That, more than anything else, is what pisses them off.

Why Putin threw in with the leftists is puzzling, since he too is a hardline anti-terrorist leader. I think it may have had to do with Russia's long time good relations with Saddam. But, now that that is over, Putin and Bush have patched things up. It was Putin, after all, who brokered the 15-0 UNSC resolution in favor of giving the US a mandate in Iraq.

[Ramo]

Absolutely. Just like how we love Saddam.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

St. Leo, name one Republican president who has ever been popular with the left?

Well some Dems liked Reagan at the time... remember the "Reagan Democrats"?

True. I think that Reagan got so many Democrats votes is because he was a patriot and many Democrats are patriots as well. Vel and MtG are two good examples here on Apolyton.

[Kuciwalker]

Vel and MtG are democrats?

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Ned


The hatred of socialist and communists is well deserved because they hate freedom.

And we eat our young, too.

[Kuciwalker]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... tasty

[Saint Marcus]

The hatred of socialist and communists is well deserved because they hate freedom.

leftist is not the same as socialist/communist, Ned. So why all the anti-leftist sentiments you're having? I don't lump you together with other right wing groups, such as Nazis and whatnot.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Odin
So basically, the repugs tap in on peoples ignorance (taxes and economics) while the Dems use logical arguments (unemployment, etc.).

That's the most backwards declaration I've ever heard in my life.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Saint Marcus


leftist is not the same as socialist/communist, Ned. So why all the anti-leftist sentiments you're having? I don't lump you together with other right wing groups, such as Nazis and whatnot.

Saint Marcus, I agree that socialists are less extreme Marxists than communists. But they still are against freedom to the extent they are against free enterprise. Now, a person who believes in a social safety-net while supporting free enterprise - well, in the US, that is the very definition of a Republican. So those outside the US who hate Republicans cannot be interested in pro-business capitalism with a social safety net. They must be interested in socialism.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Ned
social safety-net while supporting free enterprise -

I don't lump you together with other right wing groups, such as Nazis and whatnot.

And I don't lump rightists with him I understand that most rightists aren't quite as extreme as him, so....

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Ned
St. Leo, name one Republican president who has ever been popular with the left?

Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt are not reviled today.

Name one Democrat president who has ever been popular with the left.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by St Leo
Name one Democrat

I do hope this wasn't intentional.

president who has ever been popular with the left.

[Berzerker]

True. I think that Reagan got so many Democrats votes is because he was a patriot and many Democrats are patriots as well. Vel and MtG are two good examples here on Apolyton.

Reagan was a patriot? We must have different definitions of patriotism...

[DanS]

I want more convenient coincidences.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar







And I don't lump rightists with him I understand that most rightists aren't quite as extreme as him, so....

Thanks for the compliment.

Also, you have no idea what the Republican party is all about. Your view of Republicans seems more concruent with a charateracture of Simon Legree. If this were in fact true, I too would hate Republicans, just like you.