W Stands For Wimp..So Why Do Manly Men Love Him?

[AuntPatsy]

By BRIAN J. FOLEY
The things seem inextricably linked: an SUV, a man's arm cocked out the driver's window, Bush-Cheney 2004 bumper sticker. Message: President George W. Bush is the candidate of Manly Men. But why do Manly Men support him?

Is it because...Bush was a war hero? No, he avoided Vietnam by joining a National Guard squadron, certain never to leave the Home Front.

Is it because...Bush was a jock? Well, no. He barely played sports in school. Instead, he was a cheerleader.
Because...he dominated the business world? Again, no. Rich friends bailed him out of his oil ventures. Taxpayers bought the new stadium when he co-owned the Texas Rangers. As Byron York wrote in the conservative National Review Online, Bush's business career is "a complicated tale of family connections, hard work, and sweet deals, topped off by a taxpayer-subsidized baseball bonanza that may leave some Republicans feeling queasy about how their candidate got rich."

Bush's specific brand of talk, his admirers say, shows that he's "decisive." The Bush campaign seized upon this idea and has relentlessly attacked John Kerry -- a combat veteran who says he can win the Iraq war -- as indecisive, a wimp, a "flip-flopper." The worst thing about flip-flopping, apparently, is not that it might show dishonesty, but that it reveals weakness. The tactic seems to be working. The label has stuck to Kerry so much that you can buy "John Kerry flip flop sandals."

But a look at Bush's record reveals that HE'S a flip-flopper. Bush wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive." Six months later, Bush said, "I truly am not that concerned about him." Candidate Bush said gay marriage was an issue for states to decide. As president he pushes to amend our Constitution to outlaw gay marriage nationwide. Bush opposed creating the Independent 9-11 Commission. Then, under pressure, he supported it. First he promised that we'd win the war on terror. Then last month, he said that the war is "un-winnable" ñ but the next day said it is not only winnable, but that we're winning it. None of these flip-flops, however, has punctured the myth that Bush is "decisive."

http://www.counterpunch.org/foley09182004.html

[okieinpain]

1. two reason's are blacks and gays.

[The Zanti Regent]

4. NO, the main reason is Jesus

Millions of people go to church every Sunday for their weekly indoctrination and brainwashing. Never has the Nazi Party maniputlated and controlled as many churches and preachers as it does now. I know, my family was infected with the garbage from the ASSemblies of God 20 years ago and they all mutated into hard core Nazi Republicans!

All the ASSemblies of Gawd does is preach Naxi Republican propaganda in all its branches. I hope if Kerry is elected he will stand up to these whores and take them off welfare.

It's time to take all the churches off of welfare and tax them!

[dand]

5. Brilliant!!!!

Parasitic semi-literate "preachers" are the back bone of the Republican party, anti Semitic, racist and anti Catholic.

[gospelized]

2. it's because

they're anti-intellectual; and he doesn't make them feel stupid.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. doesn't talk like Thurston Howell [F.D.R. DID]

Not only are ignorant people not threatened by him,he looks like "Joe guy".JOHN KERRY will do more for the working people,if they can just for one second, leave image for content.I'm afraid if we don't we will get what we deserve,a fantastic image paid for by the future.

F.D.R. spoke like a blue blood and did more for the impoverished of this planet,between a depression and Hitler than Dumbo will do in forty more years.People need get over his ability to look real,he's not.

[Demeter]

6. Because "Manly" Men Won't Admit to Error

My father supported Reagan back 20 odd years ago, but he's willing to admit that it was a mistake, and he's adamantly against Bush now. My father is a REAL man. Although, it would have been nice if he'd listened to me back then....

[mistertrickster]

7. It's Reagan re-do--People would rather believe in a simple ILLUSION

than in a complex reality.

Reagan wasn't a decent man or a good president, but he played one when the cameras were rolling.

Bush, not being a trained actor, has more difficulty pulling it off, but the basic process is still operational.

It's all FAKE . . . REAGAN, BUSH 41, BUSH 43 are huge PHONEY'S.

But that doesn't matter to an idiot who drinks his beer because it's "brewed with Rocky Mountain spring water" (NOT) and drives an SUV because he can feel he's piloting a tank (also NOT).

[glitch]

8. People would rather believe in a simple ILLUSION than in a complex reality

I believe you've got it - especially when the simple illusion massages their egos and fulfills their fantasies.

[Karenina]

9. Because their "masculinity"

is all tied up and identified wit a bunch o' bogus *bullshit? :shrug:

[indepat]

10. Bogus macho bullshit?

[Karenina]

11. Yes!

That's EGGS-ZACTLY what I mean! ;-)