Wed, April 21, 2004
Sorry, I've been a tad behind on my Wonketting—7:31 PM
"What you see in John Kerry," Wayne LaPierre, the association's executive vice president said in an interview this week, "is a politician that spent his life voting against the Second Amendment. What I see is the same thing I saw in Michael Dukakis and Al Gore. It's an elitist arrogance."
N.R.A. Opens an All-Out Drive for Bush... [NYT]
This is what has always surprised me about the campaigns that Bush and the NRA run: they appeal to their voter base by saying, "Those guys are intelletuals and elitists. They think because they're better than us and smarter than us that they should decide what we do." And this is why I'm always frustrated by the unquestioning loyalty of their voter base – why do these people respond so positively to being told they're stupid?
On a related tangent:
David Byrne [Onion AV Club]
The Bush years have been emotional. They've been driving me crazy. Not so much a guy or an administration, but the fact that large portions of the population seem to go along with it and be swept up in some kind of weird, feverish hallucination.
