Most pundits agreed that Hillary Clinton delivered a big speech on Tuesday night, but what impressed the liberal punditry the most-including the likes of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, was her “sock to the face” of John McCain, 71. The chattering classes agreed that the Dems need to take the gloves off, because that’s the only way they can win “blue collar, working class” votes. Really what they want to say is: “Those Union guys want to see a brawl.”

If you believe the pundits, city people, (who have a peculiar resemblance to everyone on the upper west side of Manhattan), choose their candidates based on healthcare plans, energy solutions, foreign policy credentials, and Washington experience. Good luck explaining that stuff to the country folk in places like West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and Scranton, Pennsylvania. We all know they don’t care about that political gibberish unless it has to do with things that go bang.

The “country folk” are so busy filling up gas tanks, paying mortgages, driving tractors and drinking moonshine that all they really care to see is them fightin’ words—words like the ones Hillary used about halfway through her speech last night.

Like many of the pundits and politicos, I have always lived near a big city. But I can imagine that voters who live outside the top ten media markets choose their candidates based on the same methods of rationalization and deductive reasoning as I do. They probably ask themselves where they stand on Washington-related matters, and then they ask which candidate stands with them, behind them, or in front of them.

These people, who, throughout 2008, have been branded things like “beer-drinking voters,” “tractor-driving voters,” and “low-info voters,” ultimately want the same things from their government as “the upper west side of Manhattan.”

But then again I could be wrong. Both Hillary and Barack seemed to successfully bolster their images by walking into rural bars and knockin’ back the sauce for the cameras. If his base starts to slip, maybe Barack should try walking through a museum while stroking his chin and reading a dictionary. That’s what those city people do, right?