{"id":1753,"date":"2003-10-18T11:46:52","date_gmt":"2003-10-18T18:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/10\/real-men-vote-republican\/"},"modified":"2003-10-18T11:46:52","modified_gmt":"2003-10-18T18:46:52","slug":"real-men-vote-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/18\/real-men-vote-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Real men vote Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tJay Nordlinger gets it:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Many years ago Chris Matthews–now famous on TV–hit on an interesting formulation: He said the Democrats were the “mommy party” and the Republicans the “daddy party.” That is, the Democrats were “nurturers,” concerned with health policy and day care. The Republicans were “protectors,” taking care of national security and other manly matters. This notion is obviously galling to some. But Mr. Matthews was on to something, and we now find ourselves in a “daddy party” time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arnie and Bush are both manly men. Dean, Kucinich, Clark, Kerry, Edwards, Sharpton, and Gray Davis are not. <\/p>\n

UPDATE: Honest Democrats recognize their party has a “wuss” issue:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Florida Sen. Bob Graham hired David “Mudcat” Saunders, a Roanoke, Va., political consultant who has declared that most white Southern men regard Democrats as “wusses,” to advise him on reaching these voters. The Graham campaign sponsored a NASCAR racing truck, a Ford F-150 that won its debut race in July at Kansas Speedway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I ain’t making this up, boys and girls. Smart Democrats vote Republican, too. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, formerly the smartest man in that state’s legislature and inside track holder for the gubernatorial nomination in 2006, admits to voting for Arnie<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“It was the first time I ever voted for a Republican in my life,” Lockyer said during a speech at an election post-mortem at the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. “What Arnold Schwarzenegger represented for me was hope, optimism and change, and I want that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Take this as the opening salvo of the 2006 Democratic Primary.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jay Nordlinger gets it: Many years ago Chris Matthews–now famous on TV–hit on an interesting formulation: He said the Democrats were the “mommy party” and the Republicans the “daddy party.” That is, the Democrats were “nurturers,” concerned with health policy and day care. The Republicans were “protectors,” taking care of national security and other manly … Continue reading “Real men vote Republican”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-sh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}