Check out this campaign dispatch from LA Times reporter Paul West:
“I don’t come from the elite. My grandfather was a coal miner. I grew up in public housing on a VA grounds. I worked my way to the success that I had, and I’m proud of it,” Santorum said Saturday in Troy, before a working-class audience gathered in the county where Romney enjoyed a privileged upbringing. Santorum didn’t elaborate, but his family wasn’t poor; his father, a psychologist, and his mother, a nurse, worked for the Veterans Administration — now the Department of Veterans Affairs — which provided them with an apartment.
….Santorum’s latest campaign ad attacks Romney for “turning his back on Michigan workers” without mentioning that Santorum also opposed the auto industry bailout.
How about that? A campaign story that actually fact checks a candidate’s statements in real time. Good work!
The rest of the story is mainly about the gobsmacking way in which a Republican primary race has pretty much turned into the class warfare they all claim to loathe so much when Democrats do it. My grandfather was a coal miner! The other guy makes a lot of money! College is for snobs! And of course, Romney is helping Santorum’s cause by pandering for the NASCAR vote and then admitting he doesn’t really care much about the sport but “I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners.” It’s an edifying spectacle.
