KT,
Re: since I think Bush is an evil moron, how could he be smart enough to pull all the crap he's pulling on the country....I'm still working on the answer to that one.
The answer is really quite simple. Bush is merely pretending to be a dyslexic dufus. This is what has charmed Joe Six Pack who overwhelmingly votes to have a beer with Bush rather than the effete candidates the Dems toss up from time to time.
The "moron" thing is just an act. Bush is well aware of how voters think and make decisions. This isn't rocket science. In fact the method by which Bush got elected was described quite prophetically in 1920:
"The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre - the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." --H.L. Mencken snopes.com |
