Academic

JOAN VENNOCCHI: The yacht vs. the pickup truck: Democrats are now the party of perceived privilege?

By Glenn Reynolds

JOAN VENNOCCHI: The yacht vs. the pickup truck: Democrats are now the party of perceived privilege, and GOP is the party of the people. “From Newport, R.I., where Kerry?s ‘Isabel’ was berthed before heading to Nantucket, to Rhinebeck, N.Y., where Chelsea Clinton was married in a mansion modeled after Versailles, today?s Democrats are looking more like Louis XVI than Tip O?Neill. Kick in the First Family?s vacation plans for Martha?s Vineyard, and there?s a real air of Marie Antoinette & Co. retreating to idyllic gardens, while Fox News whips up revolutionary flames. The ethics charges against Representative Charles Rangel of New York are added foie gras.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 02, 2010 (boomark / email).