[lbo-talk] Bush vs. Kerry: the Beer Factor Favors Bush

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> mike larkin wrote:
> 
> >"There are more people who would like to have Bush over for a beer
> >than Kerry."
> 
> As ABC's The Note put it, the Bush strategy is to make Kerry look
> like a cross between Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, and Thurston
> Howell. It seems to be working.
> 
> Doug

And at the same time, Bush presents himself as a Joe Sixpack and a
cowboy.  That imagery of a Joe Sixpack vs. pointy-headed Massachusetts
liberal will have a greater impact on the election than all foreign
policy issues combined.  That is why the effect of Clarke's
"revelations" will be negligible - those who support Bush do so because
they identify with the image he projects and do not give two shits about
anything outside their own counties, let alone US foreign policy.  Those
who see foreign policy issues as important are already against Bush.  

The kulturkampf between the rural, small-town and suburban Amerika on
one side and the big city, cosmopolitan crowd on the other that will be
the main theme of the 2004 election.  Everything else will be pushed to
the background.

Wojtek