Stale lattes and cold drips
by digby
I think maybe poor old Newtie didn’t get the joke:
Unlike humorless right wingers, liberals can make fun of themselves.
Newtie’s trying to turn Mark Begich into Bill DeBlasio and I think that’s going to be a very long (triple espresso)shot. That tired old trope may have finally shuffled off into obscurity. After all, the “latte liberal” is kind of a silly notion in a country where open-carry gun zealots are hanging out in Starbucks like it’s their second home.
He needs to find a new way to express what he’s really trying to say: that city folk ain’t Real Americans. Some things never change.
By the way, here is how the most obviously scripted Reality Show on television dealt with it:
It’s chilling how “real” that is, isn’t it?
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