Reply #50: "He speaks at my level": a reality check for DU! [View All]

[Voltaire99]

That's his allure. Understand: huge numbers of people like the chimp for the very qualities that make him unappealing to liberals.

Simplicity. Lack of sophistication. Cliches. Reactionary thinking. Folksiness. Absence of irony.

They like a talking barstool, in other words.

Bush can't be beaten with this crowd, the vast NASCAR/WalMart center and right. They'd rather go down with Bush than up with, say, Dean. Enthralled to hobgoblins they scarcely understand, these people will not vote their interests.