New McCainiac Rothschild Weighs In On "Rednecks"

After coming out as a Democrat for John McCain earlier in the day, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild made her first slip as a surrogate during a CNN appearance on Wednesday. In deflecting a question about whether or not she was bitter over Clinton's loss in the primary, the new McCain surrogate pivoted to a discussion of Barack Obama's notorious "bitter" remarks, but added a twist of her own -- describing the small-town voters Obama was talking about as "rednecks."

"Barack Obama went and called the people who have guns and cling to their religion bitter. The people out who are the rednecks or whatever are bitter," Rothschild told CNN's Campbell Brown. "If bitter is the easiest way for you to rationalize that, I truly with all my heart believe that John McCain will be a great president, then call me bitter. But it doesn't really advance the dialogue, Campbell, sorry."

What also may not advance the dialogue for McCain's campaign is the too-casual (and potentially insulting) use of slang to describe small-town voters. Though Obama was tagged for seeming to slight the beliefs of the citizens he was talking about, he was never accused of condescending to the level of using the phrase "rednecks" to describe them.

It could also be that Rothschild was clumsily trying to paraphrase Obama's old remarks. But that explanation is also problematic, since Obama never used the word in the first place.

Requests for a response from an Obama rep went unreturned. But if the multi-millionaire Rothschild becomes a frequent surrogate for McCain -- and should she continue to argue that Obama is unforgivably elitist in his own tone -- slips of this nature will likely not go unremarked upon for long.

Comments

[fatherland69]

Hey, I have 10 houses and McCain only has 9. I still support him. We are rich, so what, we worked hard for that money. Why should the poor take away our hard work. Jealous? McCain worked hard for that money by whoring himself to a rich woman. And we are committed for this party to win. Republicans will rule!
We have become a country of whiners!!!

[gaja]

LOL will "Lady" Rothschild be "disappearing" like Fiorina now? Good job! You really have a way with the masses! ;D

[cmarmonhalm]

Because calling small town people rednecks isn't elitist at all...this woman is a total joke.

[azcamp]

And we should care what this rich woman thinks? She has far more in common with the Republicans and George Bush than she does with most women who supported Hillary and are now working to elect Barack. Obviously she must now suck up to McCain in hopes of getting appointed to some ambassadorship before the Rothchild fortune runs out.

[nikky]

WEIRD

[unhipcat]

Multi-millionaire blond who marries man 23 years her senior (where have we heard that before?) and lives on 3,200 acre estate in Buckingham calls Obama "elitist" and supports McCain.

[binkis1]

This woman is strait out of her own trailer...­She married the Baron in 2000...Pri­or she was as Carville said --trolling for 100$ bills.

She will certainly help McBush-- her credibilty is about on par with his-- Both trade on on their spouses money....

[Busterdawg]

Barack Obama, April of 2008 - "So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment" ... painting them as "rednecks".

[pottery]

Antipathy is one thing. Hatred is another. Rednecks are unsentimental haters.

[pacodog]

Huh? Did he say the word redneck?

[qwr]

No.

[BARRY08]

IT JUST SHOWS.....

MONEY DOES NOT BUY YOU CANDIDATES OR PRESIDENTS

SAD PERSON - LET HER VOTE FOR PALIN AS PRESIDENT
I AM SURE HRC WILL LOVE HER FOR THAT !

UNLESS SHE IS DOING HRC A PERSONAL FAVOR OF COURSE !

THERE IS ALWAYS THAT .........W­E DO NOT KNOW WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSE DOORS

[Golfer59]

Why don't you open the closed door and take a look before you open your mouth and make a stupid comment like that??

[Hardtostop]

You don't need to open closed doors if you can read between the lines. She goes over to McCain, another latino Hillraiser goes over to McCain and then Bill Clinton gives a glowing portrayal of Palin even though conservatives are coming out hoping her VP pick was a joke. The Clintons are setting up for 2012 and crossing their fingers that Obama loses and are doing little sly, slick stuff to accomplish this. OPEN YOUR EYES. "None are so blind as those that refuse to see"

[BARRY08]

It is a case of the pot calling the kettle black !!!!

if she thinks Senator Obama is an elite ..... what do we call her ???

she is on something , strong stuff !!! whatever it is !!

how can anyone that cared and liked what HRC stood for , want to have Sarah Palin as President ???
it does not make sense
unless it is a vindictive act .........

SHAME ON YOU LADY ROTHCHILD.­.......

SHAME ON YOU !

[Plowboy]

Let's see now. She is a "Lady" and not merely a lady. That sounds a bit "elite" to me.
Her husband is a "Sir" and that must make him some kind of knight of the realm. We Americans don't have such. Should we go borrowing some from abroad? (And before some lying McCainiac accuses me of saying "a broad", please note that I said "abroad.")
But that "de" is a bit much, too, for one prtetending to speak for the common people. Isn't a FRENCH designation of nobility?
But perhaps things are not all they seem here. Perhaps the Rothschilds have come down more that I know since they were the dominant financial types in the world.
Perhaps they are today's rednecks. If so, I think I'll turn in my membership card!
Redneck for Obama, by damn!!

[IslandGyal]

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[gintheb]

There's room for all of you rednecks in the Obama camp.

[lucite]

Who needs her in Obama's camp. Her suit by the way could feed a third world village for a month....

[DonL]

Listening to her full interview, I thought it was steeped in veiled racism. "He thinks he's better than everyone else. He thinks he's smarter than everyone else." Delivered in the dripping tones of a blonde who married a lot of money. Sure she made money and she probably is pretty smart. And, I don't ascribe every criticism of Obama as racism or Hillary or Palin as sexism. But this one seems pretty evident.

Like to see how she's going to get back into politics. She is probably disappointed as a potential ambassador.

[bluestatelib]

He refused to kiss her a** and beg for her money after Hill lost and Lady de Foot in the Mouth is bitter about it.

[justobserve]

Exactly! Lady is not prepared to vote for a man who doesn't know his place and maybe he refused to give her a promised post!
"McCAIN: LUST FIRST, COUNTRY LAST", "Vote DEMOCRAT for EDUCATION REFORM, RENEWABLE ENERGY, EQUAL PAY, VETS BENEFITS".

[IslandGyal]

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