A recurring theme I’ve heard pretty much this entire primary is being repeated today during Super Tuesday:
I just don’t see how the South could vote for McCain (though we have before).
Now, I have never bought into that logic for several very simple reasons. First of all:
He obviously knows how to handle a gun. That’s important down here. While the other candidates might talk about handling guns, or the lack thereof, John’s played with some pretty big ones. He even got to shoot at other people. That scores as much or more with the NASCAR crowd than anything John Kerry ever hoped for. It’s not so much that John got to play with big guns, he was taken captive by the enemy and lived to talk about it. John therefore has one thing going for him that money can’t buy down here, the badass factor. Now, without intending to stigmatize the South, of which I am a part of, a LOT of people don’t dig too deep into the votes and history of the candidates. That’s true all over the country. What they do that, they look for the comfort factor. The blacks are going to lean towards Obama, the women will lean towards Hillary, the very religious will lean to Huckabee, the Mormons will lean to Romney, the uber-liberals with Paul. And, naturally, the self-perceived badasses will lean towards the guy that took one during a war. What that percentage of the vote is I don’t have a clue.
Secondly, after taking a hit from a big gun and being taken prisoner by the enemy and then living to talk about it, John came back home and did what any badass would do:
He nailed a smokin hot babe. To beef up that badass factor a little more, he was apparently doing it while he was married, to someone else.
And finally, he didn’t seek the endorsement of other politicians and or preachers, he got the consummate badass, Rambo et al:
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