ANTI-BUSHISM

“We’re in a war with irrational people that would like to kill us. We have a choice between people that are largely rational in dealing with matters of life and death, and people that not only are not rational on policy, but they’re completely irrational when you ask them a question... We are living in very serious, very sober times. Why in the world would we want to turn over the world’s last remaining superpower to people that not only aren’t serious and sober, but have no understanding of what serious and sober even mean? Especially with [MSNBC’s Keith] Olbermann, who is by all accounts a well-educated man, how can you have a difference of opinion with a person who is so consumed by hatred at George Bush that he will reflexively see black if he hears Bush describe something as white. His Bush hatred has gone so far, it’s not that he will just take the opposite view that Bush has out of partisanship, he will believe the opposite has to be true, because he thinks Bush is the ultimate in evil. His worldview has evolved beyond liberalism. It’s now anti-Bushism. His moral compass has now been calibrated as to take exactly the opposite view as Bush. Can you imagine a co-Clinton White House, with a Keith Olbermann as the press secretary? Still thinking about not supporting the Republicans this Fall?”

—Duane Patterson