ABB=IB

In honor of the DNC in Boston, I'd like to take the opportunity to say something that has been bothering me since the primary season started.

"Anybody But Bush" is an intellectually bankrupt ideology.

Seriously.  Anybody but Bush?  Really?  Including Hitler?  No, wait, I forgot.  Many of the ABB crowd thinks that Bush is no different than Hitler (although how they can compare what is at worst a morally questionable war to deliberate mass genocide is beyond me).

Let's ignore dictators (who may or may not be hated by the ABB crowd) and throw out some other names that we know they'll hate: Dick Cheney.  Rush Limbaugh.  Sean Hannity.  Bill O'Reilly.

Remember, the other side of ABB would be NBB or "Nobody's Better than Bush", an argument that I haven't heard any conservative make in jest, much less while being serious.  The idea that one person, who got where he is through our flawed but not horrible political system, would be at either end of the good/bad continuum is laughable.

But let's give the ABB crowd the benefit of the doubt.  We can now assume that they mean "Anybody who agrees with most of my thoughts and beliefs is better than the guy who is there now because he disagrees with most of my beliefs.  Furthermore all the guys from my party and all those from parties on my end of the political spectrum are all reasonably close to my thoughts/beliefs."

But when you think about it, that's not such an impressive idea to come to.