America is at heart, a lower to middle class nation in tastes.
TV has made the visual, voice, popular presentation more important than in the old days of Newspapers and sonorous big three networks.
Seriously, do you think if the Democrats all disappeared tomorrow, the Republican party would return us to small government, low tax/regulations? Naw, too many business are set up to prosper in this environment. Too many new, low cost business would be started up, risking old investments and long term debts. Frankly, the Republican Party loves the existance of the Democrats. Who would of thought after winning the the Presidency and both houses they would manufacture themselves back so that Dems would lead and they could comfortably go along, all the while spewing shibboleths about low taxs, small state.
I suspect John McCain is just biding his time for the REAL rise!
With just a little effort on our part, McCain can come out gangbusters!
Yeah, that’s the real story here - like the tortoise who gets a sudden burst of energy during the last lap!
Isn’t that inspiring!!
Let’s pull together & give him the boost he needs! Don’t waste your vote on someone else - give it to the candidate who can really win AND do the best job!
Nixon was incredibly popular and won in a huge landslide in the middle of a horribly unpopular bloody war and in the face of a liberal onslaught.