Comments

You have commented 375 times on Rantburg.

Your Name

Your e-mail (optional)

Website (optional)

	My Original Nic Pic-a-Nic Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Foto

Submit your comments on this article

Home Front: Politix

Why Americans love George W Bush

2004-09-13

George W Bush almost certainly will win another term as president of the United States, as I have predicted all along (Careful what you Bush for, August 3). That surprises outside observers of US politics, who can see that the Democrats are cleverer, better dressed and better looking. It is just the sort of Americans who know they are neither clever nor good-looking who will vote for Bush.

Bush supporters are the sort of American one never meets. Through the media as well as through personal contact, Asians and Europeans meet the United States in the person of its coastal elite: academics, journalists, clerics, entertainers, and the technological avant garde. The sort of American traveler one meets in Hong Kong, Singapore or Bangkok probably will vote for John Kerry in November. Fewer than one in six Americans owns a passport, and those are found disproportionately on the US coasts, colored Democratic blue on the electoral maps. The elite enjoys the frisson of cultural difference and will travel thousands of miles to patronize quaint foreign cultures. By contrast, provincials from the inland states (colored Republican red on the electoral maps) take their holidays in Las Vegas or Disney World. For them the gambling-casino replicas of the Eiffel Tower or the Venetian canals are just like the real thing but without the inconvenience of strange tongues and customs.

Bush voters really do look worse (obesity is an inland disease in the US), dress worse, and are less likely to have attended a university than Kerry voters. But Bush voters are the sort of people who believe in their heart of hearts that America was founded to protect the likes of them - unlikely the clever and attractive people who can fend quite well for themselves. That is the source of their patriotism.

Posted by:tipper

#57 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Nanook 2004-09-14 2:04:04 AM

#56 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Mister Write 2004-09-14 1:28:44 AM

#55 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Mister Write 2004-09-14 1:22:07 AM

#54 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: .com 2004-09-14 1:13:40 AM

#53 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Mister Write 2004-09-14 1:09:44 AM

#52 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-09-14 1:06:46 AM

#51 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: .com 2004-09-14 1:06:19 AM

#50 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Mister Write 2004-09-14 12:59:57 AM

#49 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: .com 2004-09-14 12:58:19 AM

#48 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: lex 2004-09-14 12:34:13 AM

#47 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-09-14 12:28:20 AM

#46 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: .com 2004-09-14 12:11:58 AM

#45 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: V is for Victory 2004-09-14 12:02:07 AM

#44 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-14 12:00:44 AM

#43 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: lex 2004-09-13 11:56:35 PM

#42 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-13 11:56:07 PM

#41 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: .com 2004-09-13 11:56:05 PM

#40 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-13 11:54:25 PM

#39 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-13 11:53:18 PM

#38 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-13 11:45:36 PM

#37 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-09-13 11:43:03 PM

#36 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-13 11:36:02 PM

#35 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: .com 2004-09-13 11:33:35 PM

#34 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Mister Write 2004-09-13 11:22:44 PM

#33 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-13 10:57:42 PM

#32 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Anonymous5289 2004-09-13 10:56:58 PM

#31 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Mister Write 2004-09-13 10:55:58 PM

#30 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: .com 2004-09-13 10:42:27 PM

#29 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: True German Ally 2004-09-13 10:40:25 PM

#28 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Mister Write 2004-09-13 10:39:29 PM

#27 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: JP 2004-09-13 10:35:30 PM

#26 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-13 10:08:29 PM

#25 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-09-13 9:57:23 PM

#24 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Mister Write 2004-09-13 9:54:03 PM

#23 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: .com 2004-09-13 9:30:34 PM

#22 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Anon4021 2004-09-13 9:25:44 PM

#21 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Mister Write 2004-09-13 9:01:45 PM

#20 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Mister Write 2004-09-13 8:59:37 PM

#19 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Tom 2004-09-13 8:58:51 PM

#18 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Tom 2004-09-13 8:47:35 PM

#17 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Mister Write 2004-09-13 8:44:48 PM

#16 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Tom 2004-09-13 7:57:56 PM

#15 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Tom 2004-09-13 7:51:06 PM

#14 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: wills 2004-09-13 7:50:47 PM

#13 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-13 7:26:35 PM

#12 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: RJB in JC MO 2004-09-13 6:30:30 PM

#11 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: RJB in JC MO 2004-09-13 6:23:43 PM

#10 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2004-09-13 4:22:58 PM

#9 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: growler 2004-09-13 3:37:42 PM

#8 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: feeling bitchy 2004-09-13 3:19:45 PM

#7 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-09-13 2:59:25 PM

#6 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: feeling bitchy 2004-09-13 2:33:03 PM

#5 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2004-09-13 1:49:09 PM

#4 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-13 1:28:34 PM

#3 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Matt 2004-09-13 1:00:47 PM

#2 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-13 12:49:15 PM

#1 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-13 12:16:41 PM

00:00