Archive for February 7th, 2008

Simmons

I disagree. McCain is Perot, or at least he inherited his voters. Perot inherited the Greatest Generation and their clones, and they have now passed on to another crabby old white guy, McCain. The Perot voter was a graying white man who wanted to go home at night and watch TV and cash his check, it was his due he thought for his “service”, to whatever. I talked to a good many Perot voter and they literally could only regurgitate about a sentence and a half of political rhetoric before they repeated themselves. “Things are bad, gotta change it” being about it.

McCain has the Perot tribe support, listen to talk radio everyone calling in for him sounds like a retired Sarge. He has them and the GOP dead enders and that is about it my guess he is a 45% popular vote total max. The Reagan coalition is gone, respectable conservatism is dying quickly (and if the libs were smart they would move heaven and hell to save it), and we the weak are the inheritors of this Earth.

I get no chance to say this to a person inside our movement, but this is an excellent analysis. It is the sort of thing a senior staffer would send up to his congressman. It is a dead accurate assessment of constituencies.

As to its relevance to my analysis (Gosh it’s nice to write as if to another pro) it concentrates too specifically on the Perot voter rather than my general point. But it taught me a lot in my own field.

When I speak of “Perot” here, I am speaking of SOME voter bloc, not the 1992 voter bloc. I am saying that, after all the latest thing stuff is over, we are going to have two candidates who leave a huge portion of the electorate simply out of things, who address nothing that if really bothering people. The “Perot” mushroom I am talking about may be any group of voters.

We are facing a fault line in the electoral process which backbaygrouch expands on..

Damn good job, though, Simmons.

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