The left side of the blogosphere is going nuts over John McCain not knowing how many houses he owns
They seem to think this hurts John McCain in two ways:
- He’s rich! And that means he’s evil.
- Now he can’t call Barack Obama an elitist anymore!
Well, buy cialis tadalafil I hate to break it to you guys, but there are problems with both those conclusions.
For one thing, most American’s don’t hate rich folk the way Democrats seem to. (They, themselves, want to be rich and as soon as they hit the lottery they’re looking forward to forgetting how many houses they own, too.)
For another, Barack Obama ain’t poor…so the rich thing is a losing horse to ride.
And “elitist” has nothing to do with money. Elitist is a matter of mindset, not moola. You can be poor and an elitist snob or rich and just regular folks.
You’ll never paint John McCain (a man who almost flunked out of the Naval Academy, looks like he has a beer every night and probably swears like a sailor) as an elitist.
But the guy who eats arugula and thinks that the common folk cling to guns and religion because they’re bitter? Him, you can paint as an elitist.
5 comments August 22nd, 2008