Dave "Mudcat" Saunders, an admitted hillbilly and political adviser to Democrats has a fascinating take on the whole "bitter" controversy. Saunders worked for the John Edwards campaign and is a veteran of Virginia politics. He plays bluegrass music and refuses to cede the rural white vote to Republicans. In other words, he doesn't think like most Democrats. Here's what he said to the Huffington Post:"I think it is the prevailing wisdom of the Democratic Party. That's just a symptom of the problem. When Barack Obama was saying it, he wasn't saying that to get people all stirred up and stuff. When he was saying it and you would have asked him if there was something wrong with it, he would have bet you a million dollars to the penny that there wasn't anything wrong with it, because he believes it. I think there are an awful lot of smart people who believe in rural stereotypes. But the problem with the Democratic Party is that they don't understand...that a lot of these big city people who have stereotyped us, we have also stereotyped them. Therein lies the problem. See, that's what happened Barack Obama said that, he played into our stereotype about the big city."
Saunders' argument that the backlash about the comments says more about the party than the actual comments do, gets to the heart of why Democrats haven't been successful in politics recently. And it's the only reason McCain has any chance of winning in November.
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