Conservatives win many votes saying that liberals are elitist. I am here to tell you that the liberal movement is indeed very elitist. Its organization’s staffs are composed mainly of Ivy ... dismissed as being too extremist when most workers feel the way I do about things. This is why it is so common for liberal and left-wing staff and activists to completely misunderstand workers." The ...

... to Richard Nixon, who "understood that anti-elitism trumps everything — in his case, even his own unlikability." ... , Palin is playing that same card on the gamble that anti-elitism will trump her own inexperience, incompetence and lack of knowledge. She ... It's not surprising that Palin's anti-liberal-media rhetoric has resonated with this demographic. While journalists come ...

... the Biblioblogs top 50 possibly to go back to Conservative and Liberal leanings. Jason Staples voices his concerns, and ... the categorization. Like Loren, I've been called both "Liberal" and "Conservative" in my conclusions, and ... Rod raises a decent comparison to the question of academic elitism here. Longtime readers might remember that The Dilettante Exegete was ...

... rather than a strong gesture of support. It is, therefore, to be expected that the charge of elitism continues to dog President Obama, and will likely to do so throughout his presidency. Apparently, Obama ... constant attempts at bipartisanship are examples of where Obama's educated liberal base has not gotten what it wants. Second, many of Obama's biggest legislative priorities, such ...

... disagreement with scholars who have urged the president to appoint justices who are very young and very liberal, to adopt a strategy employed successfully by conservatives (e.g., John Roberts ... There are at least two reasons why President Obama shouldn't go for the young and the liberal, according to Judge Lynch. First, there is the value of experience, both in practicing law and in judging, and ...

... . As inveterate busybodies and nannyists, they presume to protect us from ourselves through government mandates and regulations on everything from what we eat, to how we travel, to where we live, to what we say; all written by liberal elitists who know what’s best for us. “Inveterate busybodies and nannyists,” ha!  Go read the whole thing. HT to Keith Burgess-Jackson. Social ...

... wing of the Party. And he won the election. Then we have Oliver Willis in Liberal Elitism? No. Some People Are, Sadly, Stupid Huffington ... -class people are worthy causes and should be addressed by liberals (and are), it is not elitism to treat this roving band of conspiracy nuts for ... Great Society "types", otherwise known as liberal, pro-labor Democrats were unaware of the need for blue ...

A post over at the Seminal is taking “liberal elitism” to task for not taking the Tea Party people ... our vice president, malarkey. While I have long argued that there is too much elitism on the left for my tastes, there’s a wide gulf between ... -class people are worthy causes and should be addressed by liberals (and are), it is not elitism to treat this roving band of conspiracy nuts ...

... $2.8 million." Read the Article Mike Elk | Ivy League Liberal Elitism Will Make Sarah Palin President - How Only Union Organizing Can Prevent It Mike Elk, Truthout: "Conservatives win many votes saying that liberals are elitist. I am here to tell you that the liberal movement is indeed very elitist. Its organization's staffs are composed mainly of Ivy ...

I read with interest Mike Elk's assertion that "liberal elitism will make Sarah Palin President," as well as Oliver Willis' response that "some people are, sadly, stupid." But if Democrats and progressives are really concerned about middle-class votes - and they should be - it's statements like this ...

... difficult decision that he did, while President Barack Obama refuses to defend said decision? I wish I had an answer. I’m sure it lies somewhere with philosophical, Holier-than-thou liberal elitism of the modern-day Democratic Party. The same crap that leads its politicians to insist that waterboarding a single terrorist in order to save thousands or millions ...

... every Canadian whose body shape falls outside the approved Liberal standard, and even suggested that it was this kind of elitism that will keep the party from ever returning to its previous strength." It ... to Adscam and the FACT that some of the STOLEN money somehow made its way into the hands of some Liberal riding associations in Quebec. There were arrests, there were charges, and there were ...

... by many conservatives. The earlier generation of writers emphasized the anti-elitism of the backlash, while the later one suggested that the right gained strength by using the same ... to have given tacit support to the New Deal now seem to have done all they could to resist and fight it behind the scenes. Instead of a liberal period of consensus that was shattered in the late 1960s and ’70s, ...

... 45-year-old politician? What makes commenters on liberal blogs dive into the deep-end ooze ... Richard Nixon, the American right has been fueled by the resentment of elitism - very successfully, I might add. By mocking Sarah Palin, ... 's Moe from The Simpsons. They were voices in the wilderness. Most liberal bloggers either said nothing, or defended Newsweek. The comments on some of the pro ...

... By the time he ran again for president in 1968 -- after the best and brightest drove us into Vietnam and the liberal social engineers saw their dreams of racial harmony burst by race riots -- ... . Now if she had a ghost thinker, she might be taken more seriously. Nixon understood that anti-elitism trumps everything -- in his case, even his own unlikability. Nixon emphasized, the silent majority of ...