Elderly woman rips Jeb in townhall: "I paid into that for years - now you want to take it away?

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105. Yes/no he fooled people. I'd say many were fooled and others wanted exactly what he was...

...he was the sort of guy you could sit on the porch with and swig beers. The guy you could fish and hunt with. The good old boy who didn't make you look or feel stupid. A white man for white American who was all "rah-rah USA!"

Gore didn't come across that way. He was, if you like, too smart, too controlled, too willing to be everyone's president. Not a buddy. You can't look too smart when running for president (if you're a white male). Remember Carter a nuclear engineer? He didn't run as that. He ran as a peanut farmer.

So, on the one hand, Bush fooled people into thinking he was one-of-the-good-old-boys (rather than rich and entitled and spoiled); that was what his way of talking was all about; "I'm no scientist..." crap. Other people he didn't fool, but they were the sort who'd rather give the job to their best friend's son/someone who went to the same fraternity as them/who belongs to their club, etc., rather than someone who is really qualified. Why? Because that person, they think, will favor them back. They may be fooling themselves in this if they're not really one of his foxy cronies. If they are, however....

Then he will, as Bush did, open the hen house to them.