The party of the common man

Tonight, the Democrats sent me (me!) a fundraising letter criticizing the Republicans for, um, fundraising:

While Republican leaders wine and dine the super rich, Chairman Dean will spend his day today talking with ordinary Americans. He will be calling regular folks who have given $25 -- not $25,000 -- and listening to what you have to say about our party, our country, and our future.

A latter-day convert, Howard Dean is on the rubber chicken circuit in flyover country because campaign finance laws have cut back the ability of the Democrats to take unlimited soft money from George Soros and the Hollywood set. In fact, as this USA Today article details, the GOP is the party in touch with the common people:

The law requires the political parties to survive solely on regulated "hard money" donations, with a limit of $25,000. They must wean themselves from the six- and seven-figure "soft money" donations that they used to solicit from corporations, labor unions and wealthy individuals.

That task is proving easier for the Republicans because they have a much larger base of small donors, built up over the decades they were out of power in Washington. Democrats, on the other hand, had become more reliant on the now-banned big donations, which they reaped from labor unions and Hollywood liberals.

It’s bizarre, really, that everyday Americans are failing to respond to the Democrats’ slogan of “Vote for us you drooling morons!”