Elitist To Abandon Democratic Party Over Elitism, Endorse The Guy With Seven Homes

Those who are concerned about which member of the landed gentry would take up the cause of flacking John McCain now that Carly Fiorina's been taken off duty for her momentary lapse of honesty yesterday needn't worry their pretty little heads. Coming to the Maverick's aid is the Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who, despite having been a Clinton backer and a contributor to the Democratic Party Platform Committee, has had it up to here with all of the Democrats' elitism.

The Lady's political shift was something one could have seen coming, if one had suffered through the simpering take on contemporary politics she offered on that fora for middle-class thought, the Wall Street Journal's op-ed page. "If Barack Obama loses the presidential election," she opined, "it may well be the result of a public perception that he is detached and elitist -- a politician whose expressions of empathy for hard-working Americans stem more from abstract solidarity than a real connection to the lives of millions of citizens."

I'd say that for de Rothschild, who "splits her time living in London and New York," to criticize anyone's "abstract solidarity" with the working class is precisely what it means for the pot to call the kettle black. But, after the whole "lipstick on a pig" episode, I know that doing so would probably get me accused of racism. Nevertheless, it's true! For more on de Rothschild, let's go to the lede of Lloyd Grove's interview with her, in Portfolio:

When 67-year-old British banking scion Sir Evelyn Rothschild first set eyes on 44-year-old Lynn Forester at the 1998 Bilderberg conference- - the matchmaker was none other than Henry Kissinger -- she was already a woman of major means.

Honestly? We're to take seriously a critique of elitism from a woman whose marriage was yentaed by Henry Kissinger at the Bilderberg conference?

Mickey Kaus, who normally can be counted on to talk himself out of coherence, managed to stay on point when handed de Rothschild's WSJ piece: "You lost me at 'de.'" But if you struggled your way past the byline, you got this:

I'm a longtime Democrat. I worked for Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and supported Sen. Hillary Clinton in her presidential campaign. But I must face the uncomfortable truth that liberal elitism has been a weakness of the Democratic Party for more than half a century. In 1952 and 1956, for example, Adlai Stevenson emerged as the presidential candidate of the party's "new politics" wing. But while Stevenson's stylish, articulate, high-brow manner thrilled the nation's intellectuals, he could never connect with large numbers of working-class Democrats who found him aloof and aristocratic.

So, wait. Her personal snit with the Democratic Party's "elitism" dates back over a half-century, during which she gladly participated in the party, and only now does she decide to abandon it? What can I say? NOTHING ABOUT THIS WOMAN MAKES A LICK OF SENSE. One thing's for sure, with de Rothschild's melodramatic departure, the Democratic Party has become substantially less elite this morning.

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Comments

[gbkirkland]

07:17 PM on 09/18/2008

So being rich makes someone an elitist?? Welcome to Eliteville, Obama ... and please isn't it ARIANNA HUFFINGTON you work for? (I'll bet you didn't criticize her when she "crossed over")

[11907281]

03:31 PM on 09/18/2008

All you had to say was Kissinger, end of story.

[sffan]

01:27 AM on 09/18/2008

I think the "Lady" needs to take some of her billions a buy herself a clue, and a
dictionary and look up what the word elite means .

[NYCMami]

12:49 AM on 09/18/2008

"yentaed" LOLOL!!!


that says it all, my friends

genius

[novowel4me]

12:22 AM on 09/18/2008

Imagine, McCain endorsed by someone with more homes than he has. I saw her on CNN. They ought to play this lady on an endless loop in the Ohio and Pennsylvania the kind of non-elitist hockey mom and NASCAR fan you all would want to eat moose with.

[akaJohnQ]

12:01 AM on 09/18/2008

The Lady's switch reeks of sour grapes! She's like the child who takes her football and goes home because things in the Democratic party didn't go to suit her. Yet, she intends to remain a Democrat. She and Joe Lieberman could make beautiful music together.

[maggieblue]

10:53 PM on 09/17/2008

Obama an elitist. Wow. That's a new one. Coming from one who is essentially royalty. Huh...

[grizhead63]

10:10 PM on 09/17/2008

"When 67-year-old British banking scion Sir Evelyn Rothschild first set eyes on 44-year-old Lynn Forester at the 1998 Bilderberg conference- - the matchmaker was none other than Henry Kissinger -- she was already a woman of major means."

This is rich...she and her husband are both Bilderbergers, the much feared and loathed bane of the radical right, and the matchmaker was Henry Kissinger, another Bilderberger. It will be interesting to see how Limbaugh and Hannity spin this addition to the McCain staff. And it will be hilarious to see what the Huff reichers have to say about it.

[Minnehaha]

11:45 PM on 09/17/2008

She has nerve enough to call Obama an elitest, when she is as rich as cream and an obvious snob. I wonder how she will fare with Sarah, the new Annie Oakley. Maybe she will enjoy those fresh killed moose burgers.

[lainey]

09:59 PM on 09/17/2008

Why do people think that people in the middle class are dumb? Why do people of de Rothchild's and others means think that Americans who work hard yet don't make millions of dollars aren't intellectuals? I hate to break it to you, but some of the smartest people I know don't have degrees or lots of money, but they read, read, read and think, think, think. More important, they are observers of peoples behavior and buying patterns, and therefore know much more than she is giving them credit for. They are students of people and they can sense a phony a million miles away. Look, Bush got away with stupidity because of terrorism and let's face it, Gore never seemed to answer a question. Kerry was treated unfairly and now we are paying the price. As a result , we resent Republican leadership. And we see two more people who never seem to answer a question beyond the talking points. Ms. de Rothchild seems to undermine her own rationale. I am going to go work for those dumb people because they are too dumb to know better? And those dumb people don't even know that I am calling them dumb. Oh, yes we do. We got it. "Thanks, but no thanks"...your simple-minded help is not needed. Us high-minded middle class citizens can take care ourselves. We have been doing it for decades.

[bdbd]

09:20 PM on 09/17/2008

Why does the media waste one millisecond on this goddamn, first-class, NITWIT. Her problem is probably that she's not used to colored folk doing anything other than transporting her sorry ass to Bonwit Teller or wherever entitled bitches do their recreational shopping these days.

[nabrum]

12:50 AM on 09/18/2008

"Why does the media waste one millisecond on this goddamn, first-class, NITWIT."

EXACTLY!!!!!

[rosiebond007]

09:19 PM on 09/17/2008

Ms. Lynn Forrester needs to go back with all of her uppity friends and play her "class" role, with title, that she has endowed herself with from the Rothchilds.
I have never heard of anything so idiotic. She is going against everything that her "best friend" Hillary stands for - which means that she has no idea who she is.
Perhaps she will find herself in London - piss ff lady.

[CRB77]

07:58 PM on 09/17/2008

So what she really means to say is that Obama is a bit too uppity for her,right?

[LynnW49]

07:20 PM on 09/17/2008

Who cares what a Rothschild thinks about class issues?

I don't need my President to be a good bowler or a moose hunter or a gun-toter or a snowmobiler. I don't need my President to clear brush, host barbecues, drop his "g's", or act like someone other than who he is.

I do need my President to be honest, exercise good judgment, listen to what people say, think before sending in the troops, recognize an economic crisis, and bring people of all classes together.

Is anyone slammin' Sarah Palin for not having a "real connection" to the the tens of thousands of baby boomers who are about to lose their life savings, or the moms who do NOT want their sons and daughters to go to a war created by the Cheney machine, or the agnostics who are organizing people to better the conditions in their communities? Is anyone slammin' Sarah Palin for being parochial and out of touch with folks in the lower 48 who have always (and still) come second to her fellow Alaskans? Is anyone slammin' John McCain for being out of touch with. . .well, with REALITY? Elite is what happens in the board room, among McCain's bro's. It is not what happens when a smart man shows his compassion without blubbering and other cynical pandering.
The only way to be IN TOUCH is to communicate the truth and listen to other people. So far, only Obama & Biden have demonstrated the ability to do that.

[blaqntelligence]

06:51 PM on 09/17/2008

Dear Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, (lady, you have almost as many names as mccain has homes)

Don't let the doorknob hit you where the good Lord split you.

[CindyWV]

06:21 PM on 09/17/2008

Lady Who?