And therein lies the rub: Democratic elitism never ceases to backfire. The worse liberals trash Sarah Palin and all those insurance company shills (a.k.a. everyday Americans) showing up at townhall meetings across America, the more devastating Mr. Obama’s defeat will be if and when he officially reneges on his much-touted support for a government takeover of healthcare.
Still, none of this should come as a surprise. After all, the history of imploding liberal snobbery is long and telling.
Ike was a dumb war general. Two terms later…well, not so much.
Ronald Reagan was an “amiable dunce,” as Clark Clifford infamously called him. After the two biggest presidential landslides in the modern era, liberals were left drowning in the wake of the Reagan Revolution. Yet still, even today, they haven’t given up on trying to raze the Reagan legacy.
George W. Bush was a half-witted frat boy. And, just as before, the Left’s elitist sneering produced yet another two-term Republican presidency.
Time and again, liberal snobbery only serves to further accelerate and exacerbate Leftist defeats. It’s a good thing Sarah Palin isn’t the Vice President. After all, as even liberals like Maureen Dowd concede, at this point the White House would have been a demotion for Ms. Palin. Besides, being a “nutty puppy” who can “hijack” presidential health care designs armed with nothing but a Facebook account must be far more fun.
Whether liberals will ever learn their lesson and stop making themselves look worse by disparaging as stupid the very people whom they later credit as victorious remains to be seen.
Until then, the same time-tested truth will remain: liberal elitism remains a boomerang for the Left and a boon for conservatives.