Dear Dr. Liberal:
I have just recently moved to your great state and I am confused about something. Everyone seems to hate Gov. Minner. Why is that? I know she is not a progressive and she is obviously not a Republican. She seems harmless enough to me.
Signed,
Loving the Tax Free Shopping
Dear Patriotic Consumer,
First of all, thank for for doing your part for the economy. If you would not mind buying $2 million worth of Delaware manufacturing goods over the next couple of months, that would be great.
Now to the point, hate is a pretty strong word. I’d say that there are a large number of people who feel a vague antipathy toward the Governor and an even larger number who regard her with a cold detached dislike. Hate? I don’t know. But let’s group all the flavors of dislike under the banner hate and see what is going on.
I think it most people regard Minner as a party functionary who got her job in the same way Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin got to be the Chairman of the Soviet Council of Minsters from October 15, 1964 – October 23, 1980. Her leathery hide and her less than inspiring speaking style give this impression anyway.
That’s the public view. How true it is I don’t know, but the public gets its view through gossamer wisps of images and stories that fall periodically like ashes from a far off volcano. So if it is their reality, it is reality.
Yours,
Dr. Liberal
PS. I forgot to mention that she is not physically attractive in a conventional sense and studies show that people don’t like people who are not attractive, especially women. Sad, but true.