I could not be more pleased with JDG's straw-clasping sophistry in answer to the poll of Bush supporters, had I been asked to write it as a satire of rationalizing obstinacy. Great work, John! The one thing my fans have in common is lots of neurons!
> ># 57% believe that the majority of people in the > world> >would prefer to see Bush reelected. > > Who cares? Yes, it is clear that your brand of neocons sincerely feels this way. As I show at http://www.davidbrin.com/neocons.html this brazen jingoist triumphalism is exactly like british hysterical patriotism around 1910. It is a symptom of decline in great empires. And it has deeply, perhaps mortally, wounded the position of Pax Americana in leadership of a multipolar world. > JDG - What percentage of Kerry supporters believe > that Kerry would continue > the Mexico City policy, for example? Again, you don't read things you don't like. The same poll showed that Kerry supporters have a vastly more accurate idea of what their candidate believes. Now you may disagree with many Kerry views (i doubt you know them clearly) but this shows that the democrats live far more for and in the real world than the gop does at this moment. By the way, Ruben came to his Kerry support very slowly. He is one of many conservatives abandoning monsters and hoping to rebuild with homosapiens for 2008. Go to the web site cited above. You'll see a long list of OTHER DEFECTORS. All of the following have URL links at the site. Never before have I seen such a wave of defections from the leader of a major party. John Eisenhower re: fiscal irresponsibility. William F. Buckley re: an irresponsible war based on deceit. Core conservative establishment figure George Will, Representative Henry Hyde, GOP lobbyist Stephen Moore and conservative commentator Tucker Carlson have all joined the tide, turning away from bizarre neocons bent on repeating every mistake of Vietnam. A former special assistant to Ronald Reagan and Heritage Foundation Fellow ponders real conservatism. See a Libertarian's perspective. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
