Tom Winpenny, a history professor at Elizabethtown College, in south central Pennsylvania, notes that he once ran for office himself -- even if it was just for school board in Manheim Township in Lancaster County. But he does have a certain take on the important primary race now going full tilt in his home state.
"I'm very interested in Barack's last little rant from a cocktail party on the West Coast," he told us today on the phone from his office. "This is solid Marxist doctrine that Barack picked up at Harvard. He just doesn't believe the workers are insightful enough to know what's best for them."
"I live in a really nice old suburb. We are dotted with Obama signs and no HIllary signs. So people who are talking about class distinctions there may be getting it right. It may be why she tried to drink the boilermaker the other day in the bar...It looks like Barack might have the latte liberals and the limousine liberals and whatever we may want to call them. I think people care about these comments, and I don't think there was anything accidental there," Winpenny said.
On Monday night, in a special panel set up by his school's political science department, Winpenny will speak in support of Republican John McCain, who he says can work both sides of the aisle -- and "the fact that he believes in nothing does not bother me." He said it's a generally conservative campus. He said a faculty member will represent Obama, but they couldn't find one to represent Hillary Clinton, so a student will do the honors.
"I have said for a long time that the president's low approval rating does not guarantee a Democratic victory. And it seems to me the Democrats could shoot themselves in the foot again... I would have been happy to see Bloomberg jump in. He seems capable."
Just a small slice of opinion from the land of the -- what -- bittersweet?....