What a condescending mischaracterization.
The mindset of those who've strongly supported Angle, O'Donnell, Cain, and Palin, is one that demands unswerving firmness in a candidate's allegiance to conservatism, and an unshakeable commitment to this nation's Founding Principles.
Having re-read your comment that anyone whose beliefs “go back to Plato” is blackened with the irremovable taint of the dreaded “elitism”, I stand by my statement.