Tag: Republican strategy
“The Resentment Strategy”
by DSTroy on Sep.05, 2008, under Political
Here’s a well written article regarding the election with some interesting thoughts I figured were fitting for this blog…
The author talks about how the Republicans are trying to portray Obama as “flashy” which is funny if you look over my last post.
…But don’t be fooled either by Mr. McCain’s long-ago reputation as a maverick or by Ms. Palin’s appealing persona: the Republican Party, now more than ever, is firmly in the hands of the angry right, which has always been much bigger, much more influential and much angrier than its counterpart on the other side. What’s the source of all that anger?
Some of it, of course, is driven by cultural and religious conflict: fundamentalist Christians are sincerely dismayed by Roe v. Wade and evolution in the curriculum.
And when Mr. Bush turned out not to be that smart after all, and his presidency crashed and burned, the angry right — the raging rajas of resentment? — became, if anything, even angrier. Humiliation will do that.
