[geologist]

Of course it’s not just Democrats who play up the born-in-a-log-cabin saga. I seem to recall Rick Santorum referring to his own underprivileged background. My question is why we should care how poor someone’s folks happened to be. It seems to me that unless you worked in the private sector the way Mitt Romney did, the only way that people like Joe Biden, John Edwards, Harry Reid, John Kerry or Dianne Feinstein, ever get to be kazillionaires is by being ambulance-chasing shysters, taking graft or marrying rich people. It’s certainly not, as they invariably insist, the result of good, honest, labor." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The idea of wealthy people not knowing the plight of the poor is easily sold to voters, thus the candidates do their best to show themselves as exactly like the voters, (at a earlier time). (my understanding) I can be wrong. It works with the low information voters.

[Loud Mime]

Hillary’s “Plain Folk Appeal,” delivered as a message that they were standing in food lines after they left the White House, was beyond believable. But some people believed it.

When our voter base is THAT stupid, we have to educate the electorate before we do anything else.

Which reminds me. Just last weekend my brother-in-law told me that he believes that the reason Gabby Giffords was shot was because Sarah Palin put crosshairs on her CDistrict. It was Sarah’s fault.

Unreal.