Source: andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com - Monday, September 17, 2012
A consensus is forming. From the most right-wing columnist in the Tory paper, the Telegraph: Romney video: I think Obama just won the election. When was the last time a president fighting for re-election was handed such a gift? Remind me, someone: how did the GOP end up with this idiot as their candidate? Another British right-winger, Tim Stanley : Sure, Romney's quote might contain a grain of truth. But it’s also cruel and fatalistic. The American Dream is rooted in the hope that someday we’ll all be rich enough to pay lots of tax (or own a bank account in the Caymans). To suggest that some folks will stick with their entitlements forever – that’s un-American. And Mitt makes it so much worse by suggesting that he doesn't care about them, either: "My job is not to worry about those people." On this side of the Atlantic, partisanship is, for the moment, holding back the panic. Allahpundit thinks it will all blow over: This was recorded awhile back at a fundraiser, just like Obama’s infamous “bitter/clinger” comments in 2008. Remember how big that blew up? That’s how we ended up with President McCain. The difference is that Obama was empathizing with the white working class's economic plight, not blaming it on them and not caring about them. Patterico : Those who see themselves as sucking on the government teat — a much smaller group, by the way, than the group that actually is sucking on the government teat — will be offended and