<<I don;t recall her claiming to be an "average" hockey mom. It's part of her biography sure. >>
She's a self-described "hockey mom," a pit bull in lipstick. There's no reason why a multi-millionaire can't also be a hockey mom, but there are millions of hockey moms who aren't multi-millionaires, and I think her message was really that she's just an ordinary everyday mom like millions of others who took their kids to hockey practice and games. The statement was made, and received, as an indication of her ordinariness, of self-identification with the masses. The masses, if they are female, do NOT spend $120K on their wardrobe. Ever. Which is why the disclosure was damaging. It damaged Sarah's pretensions to be something she is obviously not.
<< By the way, I'm not the one claiming Obama put himself forward as the average guy. I'm disputing Mikey's claim that McCain ever did. >>
McCain - - or his campaign, same thing - - launched a very public campaign against the "elitism" of Barack and Michelle. The necessary inference is that McCain and Cindy are just regular folks. You don't accuse your opponent of being something that you are in fact yourself. At least an honest politician doesn't. The public has come to expect, as a matter of honesty, than when Mr. Pot calls Mr. Kettle black, that Mr. Pot is himself has to be clean in order to call the other fellow black. When mud is found on the mudslinger, the embarrassment is the mudslinger's, not the person's he tried to besmirch.
For McCain or his campaign to accuse the Obamas of "elitism" was foolish and hypocritical, and of course it backfired badly when McCain himself had to admit he didn't know how many houses he had.
<<However, who do you think is putting out the information on Joe's license, his tax lean, and his middle name? Granted, the press is doing some of it, but the Barry Machine is doing the lions share.>>
How do you figure that? Just asking.