Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? Should our nails ladies has the right to vote?

Speaking of Mitt Romney and the commoners, here is just an excellent observation by a Romney supporter about how the commoners who support Obama just don't get it:
As protesters assembled on a beach in advance of Mitt Romney's evening event at the home of conservative billionaire David Koch, the candidate slipped to East Hampton for his first of three fundraisers on this tony stretch of Long Island.

The line of Range Rovers, BMWs, Porsche roadsters and one gleaming cherry red Ferrari began queuing outside of Revlon Chairman Ronald Perelman's estate off Montauk Highway long before Romney arrived, as campaign aides and staffers in white polo shirts emblazoned with the logo of Perelman's property -- the Creeks -- checked off names under tight security.

...A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. "I don't think the common person is getting it," she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. "Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them."

"We've got the message," she added. "But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies -- everybody who's got the right to vote -- they don't understand what's going on. I just think if you're lower income -- one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact."
It's like I always say: No one is more in touch with how the world works than millionaires at Republican fundraisers in the Hamptons sitting in air conditioned cars that cost more than my house.

The funny thing is that she almost spoke some unintentional truth, had she meant how few US voters in the working classes have a comprehensive understanding about how the Obama administration's corporate-friendly policies underwrite the continued erosion of worker protections. (An issue on which Mitt Romney would be even worse for workers.) But of course she meant that she might have to pay more taxes. Oh the humanity.

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