Super Tuesday: Four Shades of Resentment

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March 7, 2012
Super Tuesday: Four Shades of Resentment
Posted by Amy Davidson


Four Republican candidates spoke last night, not one of whom would be mistaken for another in a dark alley. Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul are a grab bag of looks and styles and figures—a credible set of extras for a movie scene shot in an all-night diner—even if they are, basically, all white men of a certain age, three of whom advocate similar policies. Their ways of speaking are distinct; and yet, in a series of Super Tuesday quasi-victory speeches, they all provided variations on a single theme: resentment. If not for the distraction of counting the votes—the most contested state, Ohio, was not called until they’d all gone to bed—the night would have been most notable as a study in scorn.


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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/03/super-tuesday-four-republican-candidates.html

[snappyturtle]

1. Loved it last night....the GOP candidates absolutely blew

their prime time coverage in saying nothing of value. Here's a snippet from your link that I
liked:

"But the G.O.P., for Super Tuesday, offered four shades of resentment without painting a picture of where the Party was headed, and the kind of America it might make.

Actually, there was a fifth; Sarah Palin, a master of grudges, was interviewed by CNN as she went to vote for Gingrich in Alaska. If there did turn out to be a brokered convention, Palin said, she was available."

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Palin can't stand not being in the limelight. She might as well get involved to at least make the lead up to the general more entertaining.


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