Will GOP Ticket's 'Values' Appeal Reach Swing Voters?

Congressional Quarterly by Joseph J. Schatz | Sep. 5, 2008 (News Report)

The abrupt shift to bare-knuckled partisanship in the middle of this week's convention appeared to indicate that Republicans intend to rally their rural and socially conservative base with culturally-tinged attacks painting Democrats as elitists, even as Democrats say it's McCain who is out of touch with the middle class.

"This is going to be a 'values' election," Rep. Thomas M. Davis III , R-Va., said Thursday morning at a convention roundtable ... Full Story »

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by Norman Rogers - Oct. 1, 2008

The author forgets that the Republicans do have a program beyond attacking elitists. However attacking elitists is great fun and the Democrats really are hypocrites when they pretend to be friends of the common man who in truth they don't respect. Generally, anyone who went to Harvard or Yale, Bush perhaps excepted, is an elitist.