LIR: JackDawson, you're right -- I didn't explain that post very well. I short-handed it.
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What I was trying to say is that the RNC and the McCain campaign has been trotting out this "real America" rhetoric in one form or another for a couple months now. The whole "Joe the Plumber," and "Rose the Teacher," and "Dwight the Truck Driver" or whatever the hell people they're coming up with is just the latest iteration of that message they're so strongly trying to project. The RNC and the McCain campaign is essentially trying to portray themselves as the choice of "real people" while framing the opposition as a bunch of effete, snobbish, elitist intellectuals who all graduated from Ivy League colleges and live in big cities. The RNC and the McCain campaign is putting out the campaign message that "real people" live in "real America," the small towns in the flyover states, the small cities in the south, the rural communities far outside the urban centers.
These "real people" do not shop at Barney's, Niemann Marcus, and Dillard's. So if the RNC and the McCain campaign are going to completely follow through on that message, then they should follow through on it. If they're going to criticize the opposition for shopping in New York department stores, then they shouldn't do the same thing.
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