More intellectual elitism

Syndicated columnist Clarence Page had a piece in today's Rocky Mountain News in which he recommends that the Dems "dumb it down." He says he doesn't need to give this advice to Reps because "They've been dumbing it down for years." Then he drags out the old smear from Democratic lobbyist and insider, Clark Clifford, that Reagan was an "amiable dunce." Of course he forgot to mention Clifford's indictment on bank fraud charges that his political friends got dismissed because of his "failing health." Never mind.

Page says it's not that Dems don't share ordinary peoples' values. It's just that they "have a hard time expressing" them. Wrong, Clarence. The people have understood Democrat values and have rejected them. That's why there has been only one two-term Dem President since FDR.
He says the reason Gov. Palin was able to finesse Charles Gibson's question about "The Bush Doctrine" even though "She obviously didn't know much about what Gibson was talking about" is that she just gave a "boilerplate version of Bush's foreign policy...We got to get them terrorists." (Page's words, not Palin's.)

He opines, "That's the kind of answer voters tend to like. Short and strong." This is another example of the intellectual snobbery of liberal elites. What he is really saying is that Democrats need to talk down to the voters because the poor things are just not smart enough to understand these complex matters. Voters are smarter than Page and his ilk think. And they don't like being the objects of liberal condescension.