This piece in the Boston Globe highlights the thorn in the side of protectionists clamoring for middle to lower income voter support against free trade: Wal-Mart.

As 24 yr. old Wal-mart customer Jessie Lawrence put it:

“What else is there? Where else can I save $150 or more?”

It seems that finally protectionists are feeling heat from their bread and butter voters on why it is bad when they can stretch their hard-earned dollar.

The article also reports that Wal-Mart is (wisely) casting its lot with the GOP amidst an onslaught of anti-free marketeering from the Left. Maybe Wal-Mart execs aught to call NC’s Jim Goodnight and fill him in on who’s who and what’s what.

Here’s a hint: Free market: goooood! Communism: baaaaad!