Hockey Mom Haunts Haughty Democrats in Hamden, CT

The flip side of Palinmania is Palinhysteria. Yesterday the CT Democrats put on a fine display of this at their campaign kickoff rally in Hamden, CT

http://www.newhavenregister.com/articles/2008/09/07/news/a1obama.txt

HAMDEN – U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd took aim at Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his newly appointed running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at a Barack Obama rally Saturday, telling the crowd of almost 2,500 people that Democrats are going to send Palin “back to Alaska.”.....

Dodd also accused the Republicans of resorting to attacks at their convention and he countered claims that Palin is going to bring change to Washington.

“If all you do is attack, believe me, we are used to that in Washington,” he said, adding: “There is nothing fresh about Sarah Palin.”

This is coming from someone who has been in Washington only two years less than Joe Biden. Chris Dodd's "sell-by" date was at least a decade in the past.

The Democrats have also recently discovered that not all of the electorate drive Volvos  and shop at Whole Foods, as Rep. Rosa DeLauro said

When we elect Barack Obama, we will have the opportunity to put the middle-class first,” she said. (Attorney General Richard) Blumenthal echoed the economy theme in his speech and called out Republicans on their new message of change. He said: “There was a lot of talk about change at the Republican convention, but there wasn’t a lot of talk about the middle class. What we have seen over the last eight years is a contempt for the middle class.”
 

Reality check, my friends. Here's our allies of working folks :

a) Chris Dodd is the son of a U.S. Senator and has used funny mortgage money so he can own three homes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dodd#Personal_life  While Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sank under the waves since Dodd's Bailout bill failed, Dodd himself spent the month in August vacationing in Ireland.  http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-rennie0817.artaug17,0,6806840.column

b)Rosa DeLauro's  husband Stan Greenberg is a millionaire consultant for corporations that do business with Congress such as British Petroleum, British Airways, Monsanto and General Motors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Greenberg

c) Richard Blumenthal is married to the heiress to a  prominent NYC real estate lawyer and developer. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E0D6153BF93BA15755C0A964948260 He lives in a multimillion dollar mansion in the Greenwich backcountry (trust me; I'm not going to go lefty invasion of privacy and show you the house and Zillow appraisal;  his family has young children and deserves their peace) 

So take all this bleating about the "middle class" from the Porsche Populists with about a shaker load of salt.

Bottom line; They see that Sarah Palin has their former supporters right in her sights and they are desperate to stop this from happening. Even in deep blue CT