Middle America did indeed react viscerally to news that – after having been endlessly harangued by Washington that they will spend their lives in the shadow of Islamic terrorism – Arabs from some place they've never heard of would be running our ports........Their reaction was perfectly normal: "How dumb can these guys be?".....What happened to the ports deal is that Davos World collided with America First and got its clock cleaned. Economic patriotism, which engages the heart, thumped globalism, an intellectual construct of economists and corporatists....Though Bush may be an open-borders, free-trade Wilsonian who believes he has a providential mission to democratize the world, America, even when it was 90 percent with him, never bought in. To Middle America, Afghanistan and Iraq were always about punishing the people who did 9-11, not about converting them to Jeffersonian democracy....cakewalk crowd doesn't understand America because it doesn't live there. It lives in an ideological world of its own creation, which, as it denies aspects of reality, is forever colliding with reality.

                                                                                     -Pat Buchanan

It's been obvious to me for a long time that despite his "Cowboy-in-Drag" swagger, he's got little in common with most of the people that voted for him, and a lot more in common with the Ivy Tower Utopians and the CEO class that has been hostile to them since the 60's.  

Calling the opponents of his ports deal "xenophobic" and "gloomy, negative, defeatist, isolationist, nativist and protectionist" as the Wall Street Pundits did for 3 weeks has just reinforced the lying deceit with which this President and his Corporate Staffers have treated the folks who put him into office.

Americans supported Bush in his invasion of Iraq because they saw it as retaliation for 911, not some moral crusade to bring "Democracy" to the mideast. 

Maybe Main Street did vote for Bush when the choice is the elitist liberal John Kerry, or the Harvard Lover-boy Al Gore, But Bush and Company had better think twice if they think that they are going to put up with his "Invite the World--Invade the World" utopian vision.