"I cannot count the number of friends in California who peeled away from Bush in the final year before the election on account of his use of the word "nucular". They didn't see the humor. They didn't admire the apparent intent, which was to talk down to his own voters."
Then if it was to be humorous, why didn't he stop doing it after the election? He did it most recently in the State of the Union address. Was he just being funny, talking "down" to ALL of us?
[He did it most recently in the State of the Union address. Was he just being funny, talking "down" to ALL of us?]
It never bothered me, maybe because I've lived in the south and that is just a colloquial form of speech in parts of the US. But I know it just drove a lot of city folk wild.
One strict Catholic woman in Los Angeles was a hardine conservative and gave impassioned speeches to me about conservatism on two occasions when I visited her when I was doing business in LA. Then, out of the blue in 2004, I got a few emails from her where she stated that she just could not handle things like "nucular" anymore. She was very articulate and intellectual and she couldn't understand why Bush seemed unwilling to try to take on the liberals for ownership of the "intellectual" meme.
Why wouldn't Bush go to Harvard, Yale or Stanford and speak before the student bodies there and let them know where their intellectual standing really was or was not?
I tried to tell her that the WOT made it imperative that she vote for Bush anyway. But the "anyway" was still there.
I don't want "anyway" to be part of the next election cycle. I want a candidate who leaves his opponents curled up in the fetal position...gasping for straws...wishing they could find some answers for their sorry decision to have become liberals.