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According to a poll conducted by two academic authors and published by The Washington Post, 52 percent of Republicans said they would back a postponement of the next election if Trump called for it.
If Trump and congressional Republicans proposed postponing the election to ensure only eligible citizens could vote, support from Republicans rises to 56 percent.
Pollsters found 47 percent of Republicans think Trump won the popular vote.
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Half of Republicans Would Back Postponing 2020 Election If Trump Proposed It
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 11 2017, @02:55PM (4 children)
You've made the classical progtard mistake of confusing lying with being wrong. The two are barely even superficially similar and not remotely the same to any sentient being.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @06:06PM
Bush was not just wrong, but a massive liar who supported egregious violations of the highest law of the land. I don't see how anyone can claim that Bush was not a liar. Obama was also a massive liar and violated the Constitution on numerous occasions. It's clear that violating the Constitution should be a felony, but I doubt that will happen.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday August 11 2017, @07:43PM
None of what I mentioned among George W Bush's behaviors were honest mistakes.
* The intel on Iraq wasn't just wrong, it was demonstrably wrong. It was so wrong that when Joe Wilson demonstrated it was wrong, one of the top people in the administration (we don't know exactly who, but we do know that the VP's chief of staff took the fall for them, which means probably the VP, but possibly Bush himself) illegally leaked classified information to end the career of his wife. The stuff the Bush administration was putting out bore no resemblance at all to what UN inspectors were finding. Colin Powell called it "bullshit". There was substantial doubt in Congress from folks like Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul. The foreign diplomats at the UN who heard Powell's speech thought it about as accurate as the kinds of things spouted off by the likes of Kim Jong Un and Mahmoud Ahmadinajad. The reason why the Bush administration went to war had absolutely nothing to do with WMDs, 9/11, Al Qaida, or anything else the Bush administration was talking about, and we know this because the pro-war faction of his administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz) were calling for attacking Iraq back in 1998, and not once mentioned those motivations.
* As for torture, I'm not sure what you're claiming Bush was mistaken about. He has admitted, on camera and in writing, to ordering it done. He has admitted that he knew it was illegal under international law, but claims he thought it would save lives. It was not a mistake - he did it very much on purpose.
* As for the mass surveillance, again I have no idea how you think Bush might have done that by mistake. If you want to feel better about it, it's something that was and still is done with bipartisan support: Bill Clinton's administration started down that road, then Bush brought in John Poindexter to run what was called at the time "Total Information Awareness", then Obama quietly allowed it to continue throughout his 2 terms. I mean, are you trying to seriously argue "Whoopsie, I hired a bunch of people and had Congress budget a bunch of money for a project that took several years, and then when Congress defunded it I just renamed it and allowed it to continue"?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @08:42PM
You are so cute when you display your naivety! Oh wait, I meant ugly. Like poop.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @11:07PM
You've made the classic neoconvict mistake of confusing being wrong with not lying. The two are barely even superficially similar and not remotely the same to any sentient being. In other words, the Bush administration's flimsy WMD evidence wasn't just "being wrong", it was a deliberate misrepresentation of reality far more tortured than Clinton's convolutions over the definition of "is".