McCain Responds To Obama’s Elitism

From the McCain camp in response to Obama’s Pennsylvania comments:

“Instead of apologizing to small town Americans for dismissing their values, Barack Obama arrogantly tried to spin his way out of his outrageous San Francisco remarks. Only an elitist who attributes religious faith and gun ownership to bitterness would think that tax cuts for the rich include families who make $75,000 per year. Only an elitist would say that people vote their values only out of frustration. Barack Obama thinks he knows your hopes and fears better than you do. You can’t be more out of touch than that.” –Tucker Bounds, Spokesman John McCain 2008

Spot on, except that I would have tossed in something about Obama accusing rural Americans of being bigoted and xenophobic simply for opposing illegal immigration. A feeling that, frankly, a vast majority of Americans share.
The bit about Obama knowing our “hopes and fears” better than we do is particularly apt, however. Obama isn’t kidding about running a campaign on “change.” He doesn’t want you to be who you are. He wants to change you to be who he is.
Exit question: With Obama already carrying the weight of Rezko, Wright, earmarks for his wife’s employer, connections to left-wing extremists like the Weather Underground and gaffes like the one illustrated above before the primary season is even over, does anyone but the bluest-of-blue liberals think this guy is still electable in a general election?
Between Rev. Wright damning America and Obama basically writing off rural Americans as ignorant and bigoted gun fetishists, any move by the latter to back way from this to-the-left-of-left persona is going to come off as about as genuine as Dukakis riding around in that tank.