Heard an interesting comment on Even The Liberal NPR's All Things Considered just now, in a segment entitled something like "The Democrats Are Teh Suck and Will Lose in November Because of How They Fucked Up Last Week." The comment is about the bitter/cling crap (may not be accurate exactly but this is the gist):
Ordinary people don't like being psychoanalyzed by someone with a Harvard law degree.
The person who said this? David Brooks, who apparently believes ordinary people just love the shit out of being subject to shallow sociological noodlings by vapid New York Times op-ed writers with degrees from the University of Chicago.
Gah.