This May Explain Karol's Support of BushThe results of a new poll indicate that most people who support President Bush would not if they knew the truth.
A majority of Bush supporters believe that
A majority of Bush supporters also believe, however, that if Iraq did not have WMD’s or was not providing support to al Qaeda, the U.S. should not have gone to war with Iraq.
In other words, if Bush supporters knew the facts, a majority of them would not be Bush supporters.
Here are some other things a majority of Bush’s supporters incorrectly believe:
The Bush supporters support all these things, but the President does not.
Some of this can be blamed on the administration itself (particularly the Saddam/al Qaeda connection), and on the mainstream media, but most of this goes way beyond that. It would appear that Bush supporters simply want to believe that Bush stands for the things they support, even though he does not.
This willingness to suspend disbelief, to be willfully ignorant, to “drink the Kool-Aid”, is truly astonishing, and—for reasons that go way beyond my dislike of President Bush and his policies—deeply troubling.
Hat-tip to The Al Franken Show
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