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It was just my shorthand way to refer to people who want royalty to lead them. I've noticed that a lot of RWers I know crave dynasties the way British royalty watchers crave royalty. They want the sons/daughters and grandsons/granddaughters to carry on the line and rule them until the end of time.

Right before Bush was (s)elected, a Bush supporter told me, "Oh, I just LOVE his family!" Silly me, I assumed she actually knew or had met some of the Bush family -- and I asked what it was she had loved about the person she met. Of course, she had met none of them -- she was a consumer of the hagiographic stories about the wonderful Bushes -- Babs, the loving matriarch; the kids, who straightened up after some misspent time as youths; you know the drill. She knew nothing about them, but had totally fallen in love with the dynasty idea.

Some of the Kennedy dynasty lovers regrettably also got into the same mode, which to me is a repudiation of democracy and "may the best person win."