I would like to extend my kudos to Vice President Cheney for <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/198276.php">doing his part</a> to make a thoroughgoing Democratic landslide more possible this fall with his recent remarks about West Virginians. 

What other help can we look forward to receiving from senior Administration and former Administration officials in the runup to November?

I'd like to ask our West Virginia denizens if they have information or views on whether these Cheney remarks are getting a lot of play in the media there, whether they are the subject of water-cooler discussion in the workplace, and what if any is the potential for the remarks to aid
Democrats in not just the presidential campaign but in other offices being contested there?  Any juicy quotes available from West Virginian Republican party officials expressing their disgust or dismay at the Vice President you would care to share?

We've been hearing for years now from the Republicans about all of the supposed wine-and-cheese Democratic snobs who think they are better than the great unwashed masses of regular people and look down with great cultural and intellectual condescension and disdain towards them and their day-to-day lives and concerns.

I plan to keep this Cheney comment in my hip pocket for ready reference the next time I hear that charge made again.  In fact, I may not wait to use it for purely defensive purposes.