Reply #12: Actually it just proves that moderates can be hornswoggled like anyone [View All]

else. Don't forget that, especially during the 2000 campaign, bush went all over the place preaching so soothingly and non-threateningly about being a "compassionate conservative" - practically spitting out the word "comPASHnit" - and saying things like "it's YER money!" and denouncing things like nation-building, and reaching out to everybody and all the rest of it. He sounded like a REEEEEEAL nice, harmless guy. And that's what people said. Maybe he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer but he has GOOD PEOPLE AROUND HIM, and I like him, gee - I could go have a beer with him.

THAT is how he portrayed himself.

They suspended their disbelief and skepticism again in 2004 especially when they watched his convention speech, and he was still playing the nice, mellow, human, approachable guy with a whole lotta platitudes and warm-fuzzies. They bought it.

Unfortunately, Al Gore was painted not as a moderate but as an extreme leftist. Funny, neither of these "paintings" could be farther from the truth. But that's what people were sold, and that's what too many of 'em just mindlessly bought.

And now, some of 'em are finally waking up. Gee, awfully big of 'em, dontcha think?