Silver, I think many are afraid to say anything against any of the presidents policy decisions, as they know that it will be construed as being against him. There are already enough who are cussing him, we don't need any more. Kind of like sticking up for your horse, even if he has crooked legs and a big head.
My problem with our political system, is that I always have to vote AGAINST someone, instead of FOR someone. I voted for GW both times as I couldn't see how I could stand to have the liberals attacking my part of the country, any longer with all of their eco terrorist type of governing, and still survive and/or stay in business. When Clinton was the pres., he took millions of acers(sp) of the west and set them aside to where we couldn't run cattle on them, log on them or do much of anything with them, except watch them get overgrown with weeds and too many trees. This went on for so long, that now we are in a real mess and it is costing us sooo much to stop wildfires and if we let them burn, they are ruining the ground. These kind of "out of touch" policies had about ruined the west. I couldn't vote for someone who talked as if they would keep these policies in effect.
GW has done some things that I disagree with, but he was the lesser of two evils, to me.
We have a governor now, who because of what he has done, has caused me to change my political affiliation. He seems to me to be arrogant and an idiot, in my opinion, so I changed parties and will gladly vote agaisnt him, the first chance I get. And I sure ain't afraid to speak out against him! Much to my consevative friends chagrin!
And all in all, I guess GW hasn't done us as much harm as he's done us good, IMHO. I can't believe we could have someone in the Whitehouse who I would agree with all the time, anymore than I can agree with everything I read about ranching, on here.
Does that help answer your question?