Yeah, if the only people you talk to are those who make their money off the Government, either directly or indirectly.
“Who are you talking to at 3:00a in the morning?”
- “The GOPe.”
“Gimme that, who is this “,”GOPe”,” ?”
“She sounds hideous”
- “Well she’s the Establishment, so...”
Something else that’s going on is that well educated, wealthy east coast voters who are diehard liberals on social issues — abortion and gays — are so strident and obnoxious about these issues that they assume every other well educated east coaster agrees 100% with them - and these die-hard social liberals are flabbergasted to discover there are neighbors and coworkers who don’t share their obsession with killing babies and letting men marry men. I work on Wall Street and find that pro-abortion and pro-gay people shout their viewpoints from the rooftops, and it doesn’t occur to them that the rest of us don’t agree with them. They even remark about the “religious nuts†who are “anti-choice†and “blue collar people†who “hate gaysâ€. Well, the rest of us on Wall Street range from hardcore right-to-life and pro-traditional marriage to wishy-washy on these issues...but we are on our own in the voting booth! Hence...it turns out that well educated, wealthy people in the Northeast are not all as rabidly liberal on social issues as everyone assumes we are. Perhaps there will be even bigger surprises in store for the Dems in November...