Voting your wallet

The suburban lifestyle can get pretty expensive. Who can blame Chris Matthews if he votes (or moderates) his wallet?

What's (financially) good for the goose...

...is doubtless good for the gaggle of self-absorbed clowns in the punditocracy.

From the October 21 edition of the NBC-syndicated The Chris Matthews Show (via Media Matters):

MATTHEWS: I think it's time for me to get in trouble again. Kathleen, I'm thinking about a woman who lives in the suburbs; she may not work outside the home. They're talking around election time -- the husband and the wife -- you know, she says, "I sort of like this Hillary, the first woman president. She's pro-choice." And the husband says, "You know, dear, you know, this is going to kill our tax bracket. You know that tuition thing we pay every couple of years for the kids, every year, we can't do that if we get a higher tax bracket. We have to pay more money." So, could the tax issue -- Hillary's threat to raise taxes -- throw a lot of women and men from the suburbs back into the Republican column? Am I being too tricky here?