Sometime last week I realized that Newt Gingrich was going to benefit from his ex-wife going on TV and accusing him of requesting an “open marriage” after his long-running affair was exposed…while Mitch Daniels didn’t even run, in part, because he and his wife split, then reconciled.For all that he is a fat, corrupt little troll, Newt is a cold-hearted bastard and a strutting, irrationally overconfident Alpha. Mitch Daniels can balance all the budgets and ride all the Harleys that he wants, but everyone still knows that his wife left him and ran off to get banged by more exciting men for several years before eventually returning to him. He's not only BETA, he's a Gamma.
Game not only explains this apparent dichotomy, but illustrates why it is not one at all. Elections aren't exercises in comparative morality, but in apparent socio-sexual dominance. These days, you may recall, women are permitted to vote.
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God help an alpha that has Mitt Romney's looks and wealth, Newt Gingrich's cunning and confidence, and Ron Paul's principle and genuineness.
It is the singularity. Don't stare into the fulcrum. It is the giver, and the taker, the place the Reverend Mother said that you dare not go.
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Note that the first presidental election that women were allowed to vote in was for Warren G. Harding in 1920. And he benefited greatly from it. Oh how handsome and he was! What a lightworker. And corrupt. Just like Obama.
That explains why Daniels hasn't had the stones this week to stop the dems in indy from fleeing all right to work votes. Why any man would even consider going back with a wife that's had other men' cocka in her is beyond my ability to comprehend.
Funny. I've lived in Indiana for over 20 years now and I've never heard this before.
Shows how much attention's paid, eh?
In SC, women preferred Gingrich, but only 36 vs. 30 percent, and I'm pretty sure the margin wasn't determined by socio-sexual dominance. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
"only 36 vs. 30 percent, and I'm pretty sure the margin wasn't determined by socio-sexual dominance"
Women desire to be dominated, and in modern west-fem society, so do a lot of men.
So Vox, where would Ron Paul fit on your "Alpha to Omega" hierarchy. (He obviously isn't a "Lambda"!)
Ron Paul is a classic Beta. That's part of why he finds it difficult to get people to fall in line behind him, despite his admirable principles.
In every election since electronic media (the Nixon Kennedy debate, specifically) the presidential candidate with the higher apparent Sex Rank has won. Every single time.
Obama has this at a walk. The GOP can rearrange the deck chairs all they like but that iceberg ain't moving out of the way.
What's interesting is that Ron Paul did so well due to the internet. That's most likely due to the fact it is both written and technology based, something that would appeal to men. Something like television that is easy to use and visual would appeal to sex rank more.
I wonder if female voting patterns tie into the Big Man Theory of politics. You see this continually in Africa and the inner city ghetto.
Theoretical question: Is it contempt they feel, or is it a predatory response to weakness?
I'm inclined to think that people take distance from the truly contemptuous, and close the distance to a ripe quarry.
I remember an interview with a black man, about whether he would vote for Pat Buchanan.
"No, because we have opposite beliefs on important issues. But I respect him and the fact that he stands by his opinions" or words to that effect.
I think it is one reason JFK is still respected, because you may have disagreed with his policies, but there is little doubt that he was alpha. Just being in the same room as him must have driven LBJ to insanity.
Vox,
Paul may be a beta, but he showed up to the party with a bombshell constituency that the alpha politicians would (and may) kill for.
His recent debates and interviews also suggest either higher testosterone or excellent behavioral coaching. He has a ways to go, of course.
@Ironwood I believe Gore had more alpha-ness than George Bush in the 2000 election but then again Gore did get more votes.
Gore.. alpha-ness? What?
Turn in your man card. Gore had to get a dick airbrushed onto him just to get noticed.
Turn in your man card. Gore had to get a dick airbrushed onto him just to get noticed.
Yeah. Hillary's.
I just snorted really loud here at work thanks to you, Daniel. Good stuff.
I think those that accuse Ron Paul supporters of being in a cult of personality must be projecting. How many of them support Newt despite the fact he stands for $$$$$ thrown at him?
Yes, we do love that a man walks the walk and stands up for something, but it's the man's ACTIONS that speak to us, not the man himself.
Hell, he's a somewhat inept speaker and it's the most frustrating thing about the man. It's the message, not the man.
As a conservative Republican, I have the same beef with Mitch Daniels. What I keep asking myself is "why?"
If I were Daniels, I'd never even consider marrying his wife a second time.
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