Ironically, most Republicans are not in agreement with the major Republican party platform planks. Like Christine Todd Whitman, rank and file Republicans don’t really want to overturn Rove v. Wade. They want the right to decide for themselves if their daughter should bear a child of rape or foolish infatuation. Like Jon Huntsman, they want pollution reduced. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger, they want something done about greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. Like Ron Paul, they want to bring their sons and daughters home from Iraq and Afghanistan. The appeal of the Republican party is the flag-glam and the “standing tough, standing tall, and pulling yourself up by the bootstraps”. They are seduced by the John Wayne myth. Republican strategists highjacked the intense emotions of national patriotism and redirected them to the Republican party using classic Pavlovian conditioning.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)