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    Junior Member Coriolanus's Avatar
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    Palin complaining about "class bias": Since when did Republicans care about class?

    I hear Republicans around me and Republican pundits constantly mocking the idea of "class inequality" and "class warfare" and refusing to acknowledge inequalities in treatment as a result of class. It's a favorite Republican talking point that "class" does not exist, that lower classes have no good reasons to be angry with the upper classes. Why is Palin now leaning on it as an excuse?

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    Ever since the Democrats started to care about the middle-class.

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    Do not know you need to be specific you are ramling off your point.

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    You are comparing apples & oranges.

    When a Republican says "class doesn't exist in America" they are saying that our culture allows people to rise above their beginnings. Our culture, generally admires peolple who started at the bottom & rise to the top.

    What Sarah Palin was talking about was 'liberal elitism" where the look down on those who are rural.

    If a reporter likes the politics of a politician that started at the bottom, they applaud the rags to riches story.
    But if they don't like the politics of that politicain, then they treat him as a rube. How many questions have you seen hear calling the Palins Red necks & white trash!

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    Rich, white people saying everyone is equal and having a persecution complex? Color me surprised.

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    She's not talking about rich or poor, lower, middle, or upper class - she is talking about the classes in politics. There is the class that rises from the bottom up, and there is the class that has the single qualification of a famous last name [such as Kennedy.]
    That is what she is talking about.

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    Palin is showing, yet again, that she is still stupider than we all thought.

    Also, considering that Bush is the current President, very rich, and the son of a former President, the media, according to Palin, should be soft on him too.

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    You have to realize that what a party proper represents is not always in tune with what the individuals within the party represent.

    I mean I could say "you always talk about class warfare, but now you say its nothing to worry about because Palin is the one griping"

    She is right and more on target than ever on this one.

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    she doesn't know whether she's coming or going...but it's certainly entertaining.

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    The class issue Palin is referring to is that of the ivory tower, latte slurping, elitist, hypocrite, liberals and democrats who look down on average white people.


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