Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican LeadershipMany people believe the success of the Republican Party at the polls in recent years is the direct result of an uprising of so-called “values voters” in politics.
But in Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership, author Jim Geraghty offers a more comprehensive look at why recent elections have given the Republican Party its greatest political success since the 1920s. The answer, according to Geraghty, National Security.
In this post 9/11 world, Geraghty explains that voters are most concerned about the security of the nation and their families, and that more Americans trust the GOP to be ruthless in killing terrorists. In Voting to Kill, he makes the case that terrorism, above any other concern, was the defining issue in 2002 and 2004, and will be again in 2006 and 2008.
Recently, Jim Geraghty, who is also a contributing editor of National Review and foreign correspondent for National Review, The New York Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Washington Times, joined CFIF Corporate Counsel & Senior Vice President Renee Giachino to discuss his new book, Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership... [Listen]