FLAIT

For whatever they're worth, polls are polls. But sometimes they reveal something very scary. For instance, twenty-nine percent of the country believes that the Iraq war is "going well." Not five percent, or 10 percent or even 20. Twenty-nine percent.

Since Bush's approval ratings are in the mid 30's (Karl Rove must be doing back flips with those numbers because even he knows they're 35 points too high) we can assume that the 29 percent is in there. And those approval numbers are scary too because they allow Bush - who should have been impeached and jailed a long time ago - to get away with everything he's done.

Between 69 and 75 percent of Republicans approve of Bush's job performance while sixty one percent approve of his performance on Iraq. Sixty one percent!

So these polls couldn't be more clear: the moronic Republican base is incapable of independent or reasonable thought (ever) and are willing to have their intelligence insulted by a president and political party that should make everyone sick (then again, if they had any intelligence to begin with, this post wouldn't be necessary).

I'd hate to think of what Iraq would have to look like, or what Bush would have to do, for them to admit the truth. It's scary. Brainwashed Republicans would rather ignore logic and common sense, deny the obvious, support a catastrophic war and "approve" of a horrible, ruthless, reckless and criminal president - and look terribly foolish doing so - then be honest and truthful. And if that doesn't prove that the Republican Party is a cult, then nothing will.

Hey, I said it was scary.

December 2007 insert: The leader of this cult practically admits it: "...See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
- George Bush May 24, 2005 (here)