Bottom-feeding "Mudcat" resurfaces briefly

Dave "Mudcat" Saunders, the professional hick who used to run Edwards' campaign, says Obama has "got a bunch of explaining to do:"

“I’m a southern boy myself,” Saunders told CNN by phone. “I don’t have
a gun because I’m bitter, it’s because I’ve always had one. I don’t pray to God
because I’m bitter. I pray to God because it makes my life better.”

“The one thing that I preached during this whole deal is we can’t
be stereotyping anybody,” he said. “Well, Barack Obama just stereotyped my
people out in rural America. “Here’s a guy who says he shouldn’t be stereotyped,
but yet he stereotyped us.”

"Mudcat's" reference to himself as a "Southern boy" might be puzzling in this context since it was the rural folks of thoroughly Yankee-fied Pennsylvania whom Obama allegedly offended with his "bitter" remark. It would be puzzling, that is, if "Mudcat" didn't compulsively use the words "Dixie" or "Southern" every 10 seconds as if he suffered from some corn-pone variation of Tourette's syndrome.

Actually, the person who should apologize for promoting stereotypes is Saunders, who is to Southerners what drag queens are to the gay community and mistrel shows are to African Americans. With a wildly exaggerated drawl and a manner suggesting a recent escape from the cast of Deliverance, Saunders is a cringe-making incarnate insult to Southerners.

He is also full of shit when he claims he preached that "we can't be stereotyping anybody." His entire political strategy was based on stereotyping the very people whose virtue he now purports to defend, which is why he claimed repeatedly that only white dude John Edwards could beat white dude John McCain.

Saunders' brilliant political strategy consisted entirely of wearing a NASCAR hat, speaking in a phony accent and encouraging Edwards to repeatedly remind everyone that he's the son of a millworker. We can see how well that worked out.

Now, you'd think that since he's a Democratic strategist (albeit an unemployed one), Saunders wouldn't want to bloody up the likely Democratic nominee. But Saunders has identified himself repeatedly as an "elitism hating Southern Democrat." If a guy like Obama wins with the support of Birkenstock-wearing, wine-sipping elites, where does that leave ol' Mudcat? Flushed down the electoral toilet like a belly-up guppy, that's where. So long, stinky little fishy.