[quote name='pittpizza']I see what you're saying Dmaul. I really do. I understand your point completely.
See if you can get mine:
Bush is/was the conservative/republican candidate. The right, the conservatives, the republicans were represented (though I understand you're saying that they were not represented perfectly) by him.
Now that the country has gone to shit, and 8 years of a republican/conservative/right executive (again,I get that their ideals were not represented perfectly) they quite understandably want to distance themselves from him as much as possible.
No candidate represents ANY persons (whether left, right or middle) views with 100% precision, so saying "Well he wasn't REALLY conservative" doesnt get us anywhere. He was MOSTLY. He was their candidate, and he sucked ass even by their standards.
SO people like Thrust are jumping ship, even though they were never 100% happy with the ship to begin with.
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I get your point. I just think it's overstated.
Bush was the "lesser of two evils." Most of the "true" conservatives (i.e. the libertarians) have realized that even with that said, he has still been a terrible president and have backed off from any support of him now that he's a lame duck. Now they're hopping that this time's lesser of two evils--John McCain--will be at least a bit better.
I don't see a problem with that. It's not like they were super emphatic supporters throwing their former idol under the bus. Thrust and others would have VASTLY preferred a libertarian president, Bush was just the lesser of two evils since the libertarians have no chance at winning office now (and probably never).
They've just realized that the lesser of two evils was still pretty

ing bad. I don't see a huge contradiction in that. I don't think the guys in this thread were donating to his campaing or knocking on doors for him, and have now reneged. They were just like, "

it, he's better than Gore/Kerry."
So I don't see all the fuss over this. The people who were knocking on doors, donationg a lot of money are probably mostly those who still approve of him--his approval ratings are still in the 30s--so 30% of the country still likes him. I'm not sure thrust and others would have ever given him a favorable rating--as again he's just the less of two evils.
So I just don't see the point of this uproar your in at these guys. They never really liked him, they just semi-accepted him as the best they could reasonably hope for in the Oval office the past 2 elections. The true conservatives/libertarians didn't have a viable candidate. The social conservatives did--and they're probably the 30 some percent still supporting him.
Saying Bush isn't repub/con/right is akin to saying Obama is not dem/lib/left. Sure, neither candidate fits EXACTLY, but none do.
100% true. But that doesn't mean that the most conservative people every really supported Bush. That's my point. Bush never really stood for the things that thrust believes in. For the social conservatives, Bush was great. For the Libertarians, he's only slightly the lesser of two evils.
At any rate, I just think this is all overblown. I'm very liberal in general, and I'm damn excited about the prospect of an Obama white house.
I just hate to see this kind of name calling and silly partisan bickering. Bicker over the issues, not whether some conservatives who loved Bush have now distanced themselves from him. That's normal. If Obama does a shitty job in office, I'll distance myself from him as I'd acknowledge that he didnt' live up to my expectations. Thrust and other's in this thread haven't done that as I don't think these uber-conservatives every had much faith in Bush. Bush wasn't a libertarian, he was a republican and thus just a bit better than the democrats to these guys.