Poll: Anyone support Bush AND Ron Paul?

[JPFromTally]

I'm just curious about something. Are there any Bush supporters around here that like Dr. Paul as well? To me, liking both is a contradiction.

[Syren123]

Maybe Sybil would. Otherwise, it seems impossible.

[Starks]

The men have 2 radically different world views... It's like the Emperor and Luke Skywalker.

It's not possible.

[jjschless]

I voted for Bush in 2004 (though my states electoral votes went to Kerry) because I knew it would get worse and that it needed to get worse before people would truly wake up to this madness.

They need to be shocked into action and now more than every the climate is ripe for change.

I told my friend that, "This country is on a rocketsled to hell, by voting for Bush I'm trying to grease the skids."

It's amazing how very effective the propaganda machine has become and one of the only ways to counteract such a force is to give the politicians enough rope to hang themselves and hope the public takes notice.

[hells_unicorn]

I don't know if this really counts but I was a McCain supporter back in 2000 and I feel pretty damned betrayed by him, and for all intents and purposes he is not all that different from Bush. When Bush won the nomination I was worried what he would do to our educational system with his wildly idealistic theories, making me nostalgic for the days when Reagan planned to abolish the Federal Department of Education, so I switched to the Libertarian Party and supported Harry Browne.

After the 9/11 attacks I was polled and I helped get Bush his 90% plus approval rating during the Afghani War, although towards the end of the Afghan war when he lost Bin Laden I started to lose faith in his leadership abilities. By 2004 I was rock solid behind Badnarik and was proud to support him, I also supported Jim Clymer against Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Senate race that year.

Bush had me fooled about Iraq for awhile, as was likely the case with many of the Democrats who were still supporting him come the 2004 election, but I can't really could call myself a Bush supporter since I never voted for him. Having said that, John Kerry's talk about an even bigger surge than what Bush is actually doing now made me wonder at the time if he was going to bring back the Draft, as many Democrats seem to like the idea of compulsory military service (*cough* Charles Rangel), so I was hoping for a Bush victory based on that at the time.

In the past 2 years I have become about as anti-Bush as they get, I've even taken to listening to Alex Jones in recent times.

[JPFromTally]

The number of disenfranchised Bushies is probably staggering.

[nullvalu]

I didn't vote for him but I was all for the war at first.. Hey whatever happened to his plan to rehaul Social Security?

[Electric Church]

Well I don't know if there are any that support Bush and Ron Paul but I know there are some here who are supported by Bush

[NCGOPer_for_Paul]

I didn't vote for him but I was all for the war at first.. Hey whatever happened to his plan to rehaul Social Security?

I voted for him in 2004, and agreed with the war up until last fall, when it just looked like there was no way to actually "win" it without spending 250 or more years killing every Muslim.

What happened to Social Security? Fighting to make the Tax Cuts (one of the few good things) permanent?

I do believe we are in a war on terror. Yes, parts of the world do not like us. I just don't think winning it means going over to the Middle East and shooting people, and trying to force our hand in other people's business. We should be protecting ourselves and our border from internal terrorists, which have sprouted up because of our overseas involvement.

[ARealConservative]

I voted for him in 2000. At the time I thought knowing could be worse then Al Gore.

[PHenry]

In '00, I told everyone that would listen that Dubya was no conservative and would be an awful POTUS. (I worked in the Buchanan campaign) Few listened. He has turned out to be worse than even I could have imagined. Dr. Paul is the anti-Bush!

[Mort]

I'm sure there are plenty of ex-Bush supporters in the Ron Paul ranks. I'd be surprised if there are more ex-democrats that support him. He is against even the slightest bit of socialism.

[JPFromTally]

I agree. I don't think that they're defecting the GOP. I think the GOP defected them.

[JPFromTally]

I don't know if I should be surprised as to how many people feel betrayed by Bush.

[DeadheadForPaul]

It looks like we have a healthy balance of former Bush supporters and people who did not like Bush to begin with. This shows the power of our message

I supported Bush in 2000 but turned against him at the start of the Iraq war because I saw it was a distraction from the true war against Osama bin Laden. I had looked the other way as Bush allowed to let our government grow bigger but Iraq was last straw and I felt betrayed. In 2004, I voted libertarian. Bush and the GOP betrayed me

[Delaware]

I support Bush a little bit, in that he is still a bit "conservative" appointing conservative justices. Besides that, to hell with him.

[Delaware]

I don't think democrats would have done any better, i think the same thing would be happening.