Must read by Michelle Malkin:

Snob-ama Is Not Alone

Beltway contempt for the common man is a bipartisan acheivement.

The odor of elitism is like onion breath: It’s quick to acquire, hard to mask. Try as he might, Barack Obama cannot camouflage the political stink he exhaled when he dissed small-town Americans as “bitter” Neanderthals “clinging” to their guns, faith, and belief in strict immigration enforcement. It wasn’t the first time the effete Snob-ama revealed himself.

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But Republicans are just as susceptible to the Democrats’ do-as-I-say virus.

Take Obama’s GOP presidential rival, John McCain. The New York Times–endorsed media darling got a standing ovation from the nation’s newspaper editors at a big journalism powwow in Washington this week. Some maverick. While McCain eagerly criticized Obama as an “elitist” for his derisive comments about small-town Pennsylvanians, Obama’s got nothing on McCain when it comes to insulting average Americans who oppose illegal immigration.

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Memo to the Beltway GOP: If you are looking to repair your image with your conservative base, this is not the kind of press you want. Makes for great cable-TV greenroom small talk. Not so good for your beleaguered fundraising efforts. And not so helpful if you plan to convince voters in the general election that you are materially different from Snob-ama and his Democratic colleagues who traffic in contempt for the common man. It’s going to take more than rhetorical Altoids to dispel the smell.

Take a second and read the whole thing. 

Her conclusion is right on the mark.  Rather than take the Obama Elite scandal and chortle over it, conservative politicians need to show they can overcome the same fault without paying lip service to it.

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