JMO, but I think it is familiarity. Sort of like name brand clothing or food.
You are fine. These are crime families embedded in a corrupt political crime circle. Your sentiments are correct.
Welcome to the last days of the Roman Republic where if you weren’t
from a handful of Patrician families you had no chance of election to Consul or any form of Magistrate. Personally I’m not not voting for any relative
spouse or in law of any elected official.
I want new people with old ideas.
It is a near-fatal lack of imagination. With over 310 million people across the fruited plain the unimaginative in both major parties keep coming back to the handful of under-performers and their brothers, spouses or children.
Does Jeb ever help a conservative? I didn't see any Bushes try to help Cuccinelli today--and Cooch didn't do too badly for himself. He would have beat McCauliffe if he'd really had help from the RNC.
The Obenshains may be a political dynasty on the rise. Dick Obenshain, a conservative, was elected lieutenant governor of Virginia in 1969 and his son Mark is currently leading his Democrat opponent by about 7,000 votes in his bid to become the Virginia’s attorney general. His sister Kate is a conservative activist with Young America’s Foundation and often appears on Fox News.
Don’t forget the Tafts, a dynasty that goes back to the eighteenth century.
Branding is very powerful. Howard Johnson made millions from it. So did Ray Kroc, Harlan Saunders, and Carl Karcher.
Ford, Chevy, we are constantly given lessons that if you liked something once, you will probably like it again.
Consider Billy Graham’s preaching, or the Catholic Church, both powerful brands. Republican and Democratic parties are also brands.
Seventy-five percent of the people never outgrow the ninth grade, with its cool guys and gals and in-groups and dorks - that about sums it up.....
You are right, sir. I could not agree more.
I still think mr Buckley was on the money when he said we could do better having a monkey throw darts at random pages of the phone book
No more Clinton’s. or bushes. Lets just start with THAT , ok?
We live in an era of political celebrity. Our media create faux royal families for dumbbells to fawn over. This started with Kennedy’s Camelot (bing it) and Obama is the latest and most egregious example of puffery by so-called journalists.
Those politicians favored by media are exalted and shown in flattering ways. Those not favored get the opposite treatment.
This is a calculated subversion of how the free press is supposed to operate.
Name recognition has a lot to do with the political family dynasty. Actually you don’t necessarily have to be a member of that family. Just about anyone with the name Brown seems to be able to get elected in Ohio.
Then there are the advantages of the good ole boy connections that a successful politician can give to his children.
Then there is the simple fact that the children of a politician grow up in the political environment; it become second nature, it is what is talked about at the dinner table. It is the family business, the children are basically living as political squires to their knighted parents.
You can’t nail it down to just one thing. But for the low information voters it is simply the name that they here all the time. It is familiar.