This is America. Let it unfurl.

[Tom Beshear]

And they like governors who brag about how many people they've ordered 
executed.

Have any of you have watched "The West Wing"? Perry strongly reminds me of 
President Jed Bartlett's Republican re-election foe, a character played by 
James Brolin as a parody of GW Bush. Perry is the parody come to life.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: "Lawrence Bryan" <lebryan at speakeasy.net>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: This is America. Let it unfurl.


On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net> 
wrote:
>
> Notice how Republicans, time and time again, claim they speak for all 
> Americans. The implication being if you don't agree with me, you are not a 
> real American. Do Democrats do that as often or is it that I only bristle 
> when it's a claim for "Americans don't want..." or "Americans believe.." 
> that I, as an American, disagree with?
>

In the "debate" Perry was a hit with the current Republican base, now
called TeaPartiers, because, as Politico pu it:  "Viewers saw a guy
with square shoulders and a gunslinger squint, a man who likes to drop
his ‘g’s’ when ‘speakin’ his mind.”

Republicans don't like brains or reason.  They like swagger.