Last Thursday, John McCain committed a political gaffe. When asked by reporters from Politico how many homes he owned, John McCain couldn't answer with the number. The MSM along with every Democrat that could find a microphone immediately pounced on this story and acted as though this gaffe was the equivalent of endorsing UBL for the next Nobel Peace Prize.
To me, the attacks would have been more effective if they had used this gaffe as an example of his advancing age and lacking memory. They didn't. Instead, this became an attack on McCain being far too successful to understand the little guy.
This appears to be a curious attack. First, the country didn't need to know this gaffe to know that John McCain has a lot of wealth. His wife is ridiculously wealthy. She is an heiress to a beer fortune. This is frankly not really news. Second, since when is being successful a bad thing? What sort of nonsensical perspective has it that a politician should have to make excuses for their financial success.
I saw Mitt Romney on television and he called this "The politics of envy". That's why I think this attack is not only totally ridiculous but totally politically counter productive. I don't think many voters are going to care just how many homes John McCain has. Furthermore, I don't think many Americans will think that he won't be able to look out for them because he has a lot of homes. This idea that politicians should have to apologize or be embarrassed for their own financial success is yet another battle in the corrossive class warfare that frankly Democrats have perfected.
Anyone that has watched the polling since this comment came out has seen that the American people care a lot less about this than the Democrats and the MSM.
The problem for the leftist types is that they have no idea that the average person would love to have McCain's problem. I could totally understand it. The average American looks at that and says "someday, that will be me". It's funny that the people most likely to fin fault with someone else's wealth are usually fairly well off themselves. I'm just a little skeptical when I hear someone with Obama's income, and his fancy McMansion telling me that there is something wrong with McCain .
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