Is a sneer or smirk considered an asset by Republicans?

[Virginian]

I hate Cheney's sneer. I would hate it on a Democrat, too. It looks like Virginia's Republican candidate for Governor, Jerry Kilgore, is trying to emulate it.

Is a sneer considered an asset by Republicans? Is a smirk? How about a sh*t eating grin like the one worn by Virginia's junior Senator George Allen.

They all seem so lewd to me.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Only when accompanied by a bad toupe' n/t

[afdip]

2. wait until they try to pay for gas

with a smirk and a sneer ....

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. A sneer shows contempt for one's fellow humans. eom

[Virginian]

5. It looks like an expression that accompanies locker room bragging.

It gives me the creeps.

[expatriot]

4. My favoritest poem in the whole world addresses this.

I AM the the people, the mob. - Carl Sandburg, 1916
(my emphasis)

I AM the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass.
Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food and clothes.
I am the audience that witnesses history. The Napoleons come from me and the Lincolns.
They die. And then I send forth more Napoleons and Lincolns.
I am the seed ground. I am a prairie that will stand for much plowing. Terrible storms pass
over me. I forget. The best of me is sucked out and wasted. I forget. Everything but Death
comes to me and makes me work and give up what I have. And I forget.
Sometimes I growl, shake myself and spatter a few red drops for history to remember. Then—I forget.
When I, the People, learn to remember, when I, the People, use the lessons of yesterday and
no longer forget who robbed me last year, who played me for a fool—then there will be no
speaker in all the world say the name: “The People,” with any fleck of a sneer in his voice or
any far-off smile of derision.
The mob—the crowd—the mass—will arrive then

[rustydog]

6. Of course, Cheny's and Bush sneers replace ability