re: #50 HappyWarrior

The thing I’ve noticed about most successful presidential candidates of privilege in recent history exempting G.H.W Bush is most of them were able to somewhat convey an everyday man type of image for themselves. Bush was better than Kerry at this even though Bush came from a more well to do background. The old saying is that politics is theatre and that applied well here.

No matter what else, everyone knew that G.H.W Bush joined the Navy and put his ass out there when he didn’t have to. I will always respect that he was out there flying Grumman TBF’s in combat. Because WWII didn’t have the cultural baggage of Vietnam, it was a help for him rather than a hinderance which Kerry’s service (and it’s controversial aftermath) was.