The same old song

Great remarks at Hullabaloo. She's sure that the Dems will win, but it's still frustrating:

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Back in February, I wrote this -- It was only a matter of time before the media began to trivialize Obama and his campaign as a bunch of latte sipping left-wing hippie elites. That's the 30 year conservative rap on liberals and it's been fully internalized by the MSM and a whole lot of Americans, including some Democrats. When you start to hear the pundits talking about "beer track/wine track" this isn't far behind...

This is a Village meme that has been used over the course of thirty years. (Fifty, if you want to go back to Stevenson.) It has been so internalized among the media elites that the Republicans don't even have to say it out loud anymore. It was inevitable that it would happen.
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I'm not trying to tout my incredible prescience here, but simply pointing out that this was always going to happen. It's the way the modern political narrative is structured and it's the most fundamental thing we have working against us. They did it to Bill Clinton too -- he was a pot smoking hippie, draft dodger you'll recall. Al Gore was portrayed as a little rich girl who grew up in a fancy hotel [compared to the title character in the children's classic, Eloise by Kay Thompson].
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I don't need to remind you about John Kerry and his "butler" and the "green tea" and the "wit-whiz" psuedoscandals of 2004. If Clinton were still the front runner, she'd be portrayed in the press as a cross between Dalmation draped Cruella DeVille and Evita Peron with her 100 million and Bubba trophy husband. (Actually, she is -- they aren't taking any chances.)

Meanwhile, you have a temperamental, fabulously wealthy, flip-flopping, seventy one year old warmonger on the other side who's being called "the coolest guy in school" by 20-something reporters.

Nobody should be surprised or unprepared for this by now. I think Obama's campaign people underestimated how this label could be applied to their guy and they allowed it to play out in Pennsylvania in ways that should have been anticipated. But then I have always wondered why Democrats are always off guard every time this hits them.