Bush and his personna

To the enlightened crowd Bush seems like a cowboy-idiot. To the people who voted for him he seems resolute and no-nonsense. I think the truth is somewhere in the ether.
He has crafted a perfect political personna. His enemies always underestimate him because he always comes across like a dolt.
Well folks if he and his "people" were stupid they would not be in power. And what does that say about the people who lost to this guy? The Bushies understand their base and they know how to play to it. The people in power in the Democratic Party seem to be disconnected with at least 20% of the population. They are solid with college educated people and urbad dwellers. Dem's talk the language. However they have totally lost the group that used to be a constituancy. There is no reason ranchers, hunters, and loggers need to vote for Republicans; they won't get any better deal from them. The truth is that the Democratic Party has banked "on the come"
What I mean by that is that they spent their money before they had it to spend. The big democratic successes, and yes their were plenty, were all due to the candidate knowing their people.
For instance. Is Montana a red state? Hell yes its a red state. But it has a new Democratic Governor. State votes for Bush but votes for a Democrat for the state house.
Our nation is the same nation that voted for Clinton twice. It is all in the message, and in not shying away from people just because they shoot deer and like the cut down trees.
This is America, the most heavily armed nation in history. This is not Sweden, nor will it ever be Sweden. It is a macho nation, a nation that does not like soccer, a nation who fights wars.
Patton is still right. Americans play to win all the time. Clinton, dispite his massive character flaw, was a winner. Americans like to win and they like a winner. Being a winner is more important that pretty much anything elese in American politics. FDR didn't win because he convinced people that his New Deal was the way to go. There was no New Deal in 1932. He just ranted at Hoover administration and sounded confident that we would pull through the depression. He sounded like a winner all the time. Even when our navy got sunk, and the Germans kicked England out of Europe, and the Phillipines fell to Japan, and all the Marines on Wake Island were killed, and the Nazis rulled all the land from Noway to the Sudan; FDR sounded confident of victory.
I am not equating Bush to FDR. But if people want to push Bush out and take the Congress back they better stop sounding like a professor and start talking like Patton.