Picture of the Day
Dick Cheney speaking at a NASCAR event yesterday.
It's all there: Overwhelming American flag, "troops" as props, prominent sponsorship....
(and not a non-white face in the whole shot?)
Obviously, this a group being targeted for 2006. Remember Bush's "NASCAR appearance" a month ago?
Or maybe it's just the last public audience outside military gatherings where they can go without fear of being booed.
Or, maybe, just maybe, NASCAR represents the last bastion of eroding core Bush support.
posted by mikevotes at
7:59 AM
7 Comments:
And gosh, I thought it was illegal for soldiers to appear at political events in uniform?
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Greyhair, at 10:48 AM
Of course NASCAR nation supports the war! With out the precious oil, their "sport" becomes obsolete.
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Lew Scannon, at 11:22 AM
And they like watching the "car wrecks," Lew.
Greyhair, is that still in discussion? I figured they'd broken that law enough that it no longer applied. Like reporting to Congress.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 11:30 AM
GW's like a political Leona Helmsley. Laws are for the "little people."
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NYC Educator, at 12:30 PM
Heh.
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mikevotes, at 12:54 PM
It's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 2:47 PM
Interesting. That desire to belong to tribe, or draw to a structure or leader is for some reason stronger on the AMerican Right than on the left.
Think about the way the two different media are structured. Main leaders Rush Limbaugh, O'Reilly, etc. the head bullies, vs. the thousands of little vegan newsletters.
I think that's why the left has done so much better on the net (along with demographic differences) because they have a more decentralized ideological structure which is more suited to the changing structure of the net.
Not well described, just a pet theory.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 6:57 PM
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