Reviewing the transcript, one is struck that some of the GOP candidates were eager to show off their middle-class bonafides.
MARCO RUBIO: You know, both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba.
CRUZ: I’m the son of a pastor and evangelist and I’ve described many times how my father, when I was a child, was an alcoholic. He was not a Christian. And my father left my mother and left me when I was just three years old.
JOHN KASICH: Well, Megyn, my father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother’s mother could barely speak English.
CHRIS CHRISTIE: Listen, I was born into a middle class family in New Jersey. My dad came home from serving in the Army after having lost his father, worked in the Breyers ice cream plant in Newark, New Jersey. Was the first person to graduate from college. He put himself through college at night. My mom was a secretary.
It’s been done better.
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There are informed common folk and there are pandered to, hands out common folk.
Hillary fakes her sincerity to the whole, diverse collection of common folk rubble.
**Yawn** Appeals to the “…walked to school barefoot in the snow uphill both ways” just show you are feeling a bit desperate, and insecure in your political footing.
Everyone in that quote, and most of the Podium have ties to Lehman Brothers or Goldman-Sachs and are 0.1%ers.
I disagree. It dispells the idea that the Republican Party is the party of the rich and old white men at that. Their ties to Lehman Brothers and Goldman – Sachs proves that in America kit doesn’t matter how you started out; poor or middle class, by saving and investing small, you can ultimately accumulate wealth and become a 0.1%er. It projects a far more positive image tha Hillary, running around claiming poverty, and she is for the poor while she deposits her $300,000. speaking fee.
I understand why they do it, but I’m getting a little tired of the Apple Annie spiel.
I agree with Roberto…it helps dispel a common myth–all too happily promulgated by the left–that all politico GOPers came from homes where evenings were spent at the country club eating gourmet meals followed by a night at home in smoking jackets with ascots sipping Chivas. (While there is one blue blood among the crew, even he had a more modest, though privileged, upbringing.)
Contrast, again, to the dominant candidate from the Donkey Party who thinks “dead broke” means having less than a million dollars in combined bank accounts.
did they all live in the same neighborhood as Hillary?
If you know any “old money, country-club types”, they probably had a burger in the Mens Grill, and wouldn’t be caught-dead drinking Chivas.
Exactly!
Great Clip! Thanks.