Still unclear about what liberal elitism looks like? Check out Wonkette’s post about John McCain’s stop at a biker rally.

That John McCain really is a “man of the people,” which is why he went out to the Sturgis biker rally in South Dakota yesterday to praise the slobs for their slavish dependence on Muslim Arab petroleum. “This is my first time here,” McCain told the crowd of fat, tattooed motorcycle fetishists from the suburbs, “but I recognize that sound. It’s the sound of freedom.” The sound, actually, was just these people revving their foreign-oil powered bikes for no reason at all beyond a childlike delight in destroying everybody else’s peace and quiet.

Something tells me it doesn’t take much to destroy Wonkette’s peace and quiet. And I confess to a childlike delight at the prospect of doing so. He goes on:

Oh, and then McCain offered Cindy to the motorcyclists, in a nod to the old Hells Angels’ tradition of letting everybody bang your old lady.

Oh, did he? How, exactly? From CNN:

Indeed, McCain felt so comfortable at the event that he even volunteered his wife for the rally’s traditional beauty pageant, an infamously debauched event that’s been known to feature topless women.

“I encouraged Cindy to compete,” McCain said to cheers. “I told her with a little luck she could be the only woman ever to serve as first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”

Not so much banging, I guess. This seems like a fairly standard populist stunt, of the kind that presidential candidates have been engaging in for decades. But it’s hard for me to see how Wonkette’s scorn can be reconciled with the idea that Obama is somehow the more inclusive candidate.