East Tennessee’s Tim Burchett, a Republican, said he believes that aliens must have the technological capacity to “turn us into a charcoal briquette”.
One of Dubya’s biggest selling points was that he was “someone you could have a beer with”.
So no, the people that vote for those kinds of people don’t want someone smarter than themselves. They want someone like themselves.
That was actually a part of Hilary’s trouble too: people just didn’t like her on a personality level, so they didn’t vote for her.
One of Dubya’s biggest selling points was that he was “someone you could have a beer with”.
Which is insane because W. went to a prep school and graduated from Harvard and Yale. His goofiness hid his incredibly privileged upbringing.
All that was an act. This gubernatorial debate between him and Anne Richards shows that the bumbling GW the rest of the U.S. came to know in 1999 is not the same person here in 1994.