My years of dumbfounded incredulity over the demented loyalty of right-wingers to the spectacularly failed administration of George Bush are mercifully over.
Finally, I get it...
<< The base will stick with [George Bush] come hell or high water. (I believe it's a mistake, however, to think it has anything to do with him personally --- the base of the Republican party are authoritarians who will blindly follow their leader no matter who he is, which is why they need to be kept away from the brown shirt section of Macy's.) >>
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/mind-games-by-digby-atrios-flags-this.htmlSo when a sad case like Ye Olde Rooster reflexively defends Bush against the plainly documented and plainly disgraceful fact of his spending a record-shattering amount of his presidency on vacation - which of course he can only do with a sand-in-the-eyes technique like insulting you or mentioning Bill's Eternal Blowjob - you could go so far as to say that he's acting in self-defense.
To demonstrate that his beloved Leader - in whom he has placed all his childish trust to keep the scary things of the world at bay - is actually a lazy, dim-witted frat-boy who couldn't care less about governing the country is like telling a 4 year old boy that Daddy doesn't love him and wants to give him away. Even though it's true, it's psychologically insupportable for the child - who does not have the intellectual resources to cope with such a wound. So he'll scream "nonononono!" to block out your words as he kicks and bites you.