An amusing though unverified anecdote from a friend of mine:
Just read about champagne-swilling Michelle on your blog, and it reminded me of this story a guy told me recently. He was working as a sous chef in a very upscale locally-grown organic spa/hotel/restaurant, and a local Republican running for something gave a fundraising dinner. His people specifically requested champagne and caviar – neither of which were really part of the restaurant’s aesthetic. (Champagne, for instance, has to come from France, and these people wouldn’t even settle for various sparkling wines that came from down the road.) So they bent over backwards and got the stuff, and then the GOP guy gets up and as an opener reads the menu out loud and says, “I wish I could say I feel comfortable in these circumstances, but I’m not a champagne and caviar kinda guy.” The overtaxed staff was not amused. This to me is the GOP in a nutshell: insisting on champagne and caviar in order to point out how they’re just not comfortable with stuff like that.