Who's the out-of-touch elitist now?

Potential VP Tim Kaine ridiculed John McCain today for not being able to answer when reporters asked him how many houses he owns. Painting McCain as a quintessential Country Club Republican is probably the Dems' best counterattack to the charge that Obama is elitist or out-of-touch with working class Americans (which was already an iffy approach for McCain, giving the historical economic status of most black Americans).

This approach would also help focus the campaign on GOP economic policies that favor the extremely wealthy, like shifting the tax burden to the middle class and the deregulation of the home loan market. And it shouldn't be too hard to brand McCain with the Country Club Republican label once the media starts to cover the candidates' financial statements - how many of the "mavericks" you know are independently wealthy because they married into a family fortune?