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Article: Who's your daddy party? Fifty-plus war veterans, retired Navy men, a sheriff, a prosecutor, and a former star quarterback all running for Congress--as Democrats?!? Wasn't the GOP supposed to be the Testosterone Party? How our most macho president brought his party's hetero-hegemony to an end.(Cover story)
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- June 1, 2006
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PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH HAS MADE THAT STATEMENT MANY TIMES. So has Vice President Dick Cheney. And Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Multiple principals endlessly repeating themselves--that's the mark of a premium White House talking point. Or in this case, a kind of gospel--poll-tested, market-driven, swing-voter-approved, and sanctioned by Kardinal Rove himself.
Like its religious counterpart, political liturgy does not reward literal interpretation. The "weakness" that invites our destruction is not a measurable, structural weakness of nations. It is more insidious than that. It is the weakness of men. Certain men of uncertain will. Unmanly men. Men who lack ...
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