More clues to who we are…
Radioblogger’s comments today fit in nicely with my ongoing thread on who are the people who came out in droves to re-elect President Bush ( See 1 and 2). So far, it has been my contention that it is a cop-out to claim that a vast “evangelical Christian” horde descended on the polls on Election Day. I don’t believe that. I think that many people of varying faiths and backgrounds chose Bush as president because of national security issues and not because of values.
Radioblogger’s post recaps Michael Moore’s recent visit to Jay Leno and well-illustrates that “we” are the ones who don’t think elections are games (or at least not anymore). He writes:
Then the money question and quote. Jay asked why Michael thought Kerry didn’t win. Michael said, “I think Bush got more votes, but there’s another game in four years, and we’ll do the best we can.”
He admitted that the election process is just a game. If you go back to the radioblogger archives all the way back to October 8, or here for the rest of you lazy people, I mentioned that politics was like this country’s real national pastime, except that after 9/11, the playing field had changed. The Democrats still thought of the election as the “big game”, while the Republicans realized that it wasn’t a game anymore. The election really meant something this time.
Michael just proved my point.
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