McCain: Some people call you the elite...I don't call you my base (he cares for the LITTLE people)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

McCain emphasizes gas-tax holiday again, rails against ‘elites’
By: Steve Benen on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at 10:40 AM - PDT

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/04/mccain-emphasizes-gas-tax-holiday-again-rails-against-elites/



Honestly, it’s like deja vu all over again.

Right at the top of his remarks before taking questions from the Nashville crowd — where regular unleaded goes for about $3.85 — McCain said he wanted to discuss “what’s on everybody’s mind, the price of oil.”

McCain said he was struck by the loud opposition by “the elites in this country.”

“The hysterical reaction was a little bit funny,” he said. In Washington, McCain noted, “the wealthiest people live in Georgetown” and can walk downtown to work. By contrast, he said, the lowest-income workers live the furthest away.

McCain explained that Barack Obama had called the plan “a gimmick”

“Well, I’d like to have some more quote gimmicks to give low-income Americans some relief,” he jabbed back.

I keep thinking about an item Time’s Joe Klein wrote about a month ago. Klein, a McCain admirer, predicted that McCain would avoid the cheap and pathetic style of campaigning we’re seeing now. McCain, Klein said, “sees the tawdry ceremonies of politics — the spin and hucksterism — as unworthy.” If he doesn’t, “McCain will have to live with the knowledge that in the most important business of his life, he chose expediency over honor. That’s probably not the way he wants to be remembered.”

Klein was mistaken. McCain has seen the tawdry ceremonies of politics — the spin and hucksterism — and has come to believe that Americans are just dumb enough to fall for the con. McCain almost certainly knows that this gas-tax idea is ridiculous, and he has to realize that railing against the “elites” for acknowledging reality is a special kind of stupid.

And yet, McCain peddles nonsense anyway, hoping voters won’t know the difference. That his proposal wouldn’t do anything to help low-income Americans, wouldn’t lower the price of gas, and would boost oil company profits seems entirely irrelevant. A confidence man in the middle of a scam can’t be bothered with reality — it only gets in the way of the deception.

[Robbien]

1. The problem with McCain talking about helping the "low income" people

is that the crowd he usually draws in are people who don't give a crap about "low income" Americans. In fact, his crowd are usually the people who point to the "low incomers" with scorn saying that they should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and stop begging for handout.

By the way McSame, the terminology "low income" Americans? Not even people whose wages would qualify for that terminology would claim that description. Who the heck writes your speeches?

[TwilightGardener]

2. Hilarious that he latched on to Hillary's "elite" meme against Obama.

Even more hilarious is that Mr. Man Of The People was the son and grandson of famous Admirals, which is how he got into Naval Academy. And then he dumped his fat wife for an heiress. And has been on the inside of DC for 30 years. Yep, he's one of us.

[blondeatlast]

3. I love these "Hereditarily Affirmitive Action" types calling others "elites."

Having at least 5 verifiable homes all behind gates isn't "elite?"

Yeha, McMore is so down with us working types... :eyes: