Average American citizens react to elitist slurs
against average American citizens

From her outpost in the Fact-Free Podhoretz Nebula of Pundit Suck, Jennifer Rubin writes:

The liberal media throng and Democratic elites never learn the right lesson. It’s been only a month since they vilified Sarah Palin, leading to a gigantic backlash and the largest surge in John McCain’s standing in the polls yet. But they didn’t learn. They are at it again with Joe the Plumber and, once again, are exercising no self-restraint.

They don’t, at bottom, respect non-elites from middle America or listen to their concerns. They treat them as cartoon characters or as frauds sent to foil their own quest for power. So they set upon Joe the Plumber in the mistaken view that what was significant about the interchange with Barack Obama were Joe’s concerns. And–surprise, surprise–you’ve got the makings of a backlash.

For those who don’t wish to clink on Jennifers links (which is not as dirty as it sounds), you would have read the bitter pouting of NRO’s Jim Geraghty as well as your minimal daily requirement of "reader emails" to The Corner from people who are so gosh darned mad that they are moved to write emails as opposed to buying guns and… well, who knows what they would do after that.

Needless to say, in Jenifer’s view we can attribute McCain’s ginormous insurmountable where-no-man-has-ever-gone-before lead in the polls to the snippy bon mots of the liberal elite elitists and media elitey elitists who fail to acknowledge that his time, boy oh boy oh boy, this time they really have made a huge mistake.

Or as Roy puts it:

Rightwing bloggers will tell you what the real crime is:

They’ve done more investigations into Joe the Plumber in 24 hours than they’ve done on Barack Obama in two years . . . .

A reader emails: The harassment of Joe the plumber is the singular biggest mistake of the Obama campaign…

I’ve been around so long, I remember when Joe Biden was Obama’s biggest mistake. And when making fun of McCain’s multiple houses was Obama’s biggest mistake. And when not picking Hillary was Obama’s biggest mistake. And when bitter/clinging/guns was Obama’s biggest mistake. And when attacking Rush Limbaugh was Obama’s biggest mistake. And when attacking Andy Martin was Obama’s biggest mistake, etc.

Given his multiple biggest mistakes, it’s amazing the guy’s so far ahead he has to warn supporters not to get complacent. Perhaps this, too, is his biggest mistake.

It’s not that these people can’t accept defeat gracefully, it’s that they really believe with one more roll of the dice they can win. So the simple act of flipping a coin becomes two out of three, three out of five, four out of seven, etc.

Las Vegas never went broke by counting on these people.