Tom Wolfe On George Bush

From National Review: In an article that appeared in the Guardian, novelist Tom Wolfe was quoted as saying,

"I think support for Bush is about not wanting to be led by East Coast pretensions. It is about not wanting to be led by people who are forever trying to force their twisted sense of morality onto us, which is a non- morality. That is constantly done, and there is a real resentment."

There is a lot of truth to that. There was (and is) such a stark difference between John Kerry and George Bush, that for many who were not real strong advocates of George Bush, this resentment of "the East Coast pretensions", the elitism, and this "twisted sense of morality" was soundly rejected by the electorate. Thus, many voters who were otherwise tepid towards the Bush administration scurried towards him and pulled the lever in his favor at the voting booth.