Why Bush will win

[qwertyMike]

I live in Canada. I'm on a mailing list that has an American Republican on board. We were chatting about the election and I asked him why Bush is doing so well with the electorate. Here is his response: I was impressed. Anyone agree?

Quote:
"I'll try to explain "why" many Americans love George W. Bush.

First, despite what gets printed or broadcast from the media centers on the East and West coasts, Americans are not universally deep thinking intellectuals who spend great amounts of time pondering the
complexities of the issues of the day. Americans are a very straight forward and (at the risk of bringing on the snickers) *simple* people. No, not simple as in stupid, but simple as in looking to eliminate complicated problems by simplification. For example, I can almost guarantee that the majority of Americans, when they heard John Kerry recently suggest that he would conduct a more "sensitive" war on terror, they shook their heads in utter disbelief, probably thinking "sensitive my ASS..you gotta KILL the SOBs!"

Americans as a rule, are not interested in "nuance", they have no love
of philosophical eggheads who have some Freudian solution to nearly every problem confronting society be it domestic or foreign. Americans mostly look at issues in a strict black and white context - "is it good? is it bad?"

That isn't to say that Americans aren't capable of considering the
various "shades of grey" that accompany any question great or small. But they do not spend inordinate amounts of time agonizing over what "shade of grey" must be given their uninterrupted attention - they cut to the chase, making a decision yea or nay, and damn the person who wants to equivocate and do some elaborate dance of the seven political veils. In a sense, America is mostly a digital nation - digital as in "1" or "0". Yes or No.

Now having said all that, Americans love George W. Bush because he is
not a man of deep complexities - he has a very stark black and white
view of the world. There have been many presidents who were intellectuals, but they reached the White House because they understood that after all the sophisticated mental gymnastics, after all their lofty 'ivory tower' rhetoric, the voters want to know just one basic answer to every basic issue, which is "what do you stand for?" That in a nutshell, not only explains why Bush generates such intense loyalty in some people, but it also explains why the negative perception of Kerry keeps going up - the American people see him as not only someone who waffles on every issue, but they are beginning
to suspect that rather than just telling each audience what they want to hear, that (even worse) Kerry isn't capable of taking a position and sticking with it."
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Interesting. BTW I respect this man.

Mike