Romney: Americans are exceptionally parasitic moochers
Source: fatlip.leoweekly.com - Tuesday, September 18, 2012
I’m sure you’ve seen it by now, but in case you haven’t, here’s how Mitt Romney really feels about almost half of Americans: Of course, those 47 percent that he’s talking about are the working poor, retirees mooching on Medicare and Social Security , and Republicans , not owing income taxes due to the policy of Republican presidents . But why let facts get in the way of a good class warfare invective tailor made for your 1 percent base at a glitzy fundraiser? While Rush Limbaugh and the fire-breathers of the right-wing media loved Romeny’s attack against the parasitic and good-for-nothing half of Americans they despise, others Republicans are dismayed. Bush speechwriter David Frum , David Brooks and even Fox monster Bill Kristol have basically called out Romney as an incompetent, elitist fool. Even Republican candidates are running away in horror . The Obama campaign will now devote a billion new ads to the Great 47% Folly, which Romney and Ryan are now fully embracing (besides it being “not elegantly stated”). Here’s the first one: And here’s what Rep. John Yarmuth told LEO about Romney’s remarks: “For Mitt Romney to say it isn’t his job to worry about working families and seniors because they don’t take personal responsibility for their lives shows how little he understands not just the concept of personal responsibility, but the responsibilities of the President of the United States.” GOP Super PAC folks still have time to divRomney’s Flawed Lesson in Political Economy
Source: www.newyorker.com - Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Say what you like about Mitt Romney—I’ve already said a lot—but he rarely fails to come through when his opponents need him. If Jimmy Carter’s grandson, the would-be opposition researcher who evidently helped to dig up the offending video, had written the script himself he could hardly have come up with something more damaging than the videos secretly taped at a Boca Raton fundraiser this spring and published by Mother Jones on Monday. What sort of candidate, speaking in a quasi-public setting—there are potential leakers lurking in all fundraisers—would say almost half of the voters in the election “are dependent on the government,” that they “believe that they are victims,” and then go on to say, “my job is not to worry about these people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives”? The answer proffered by my colleague Amy Davidson and numerous other commentators: a heartless plutocrat who holds the impoverished and the working poor in contempt . Sounding for all the world like Josiah Bounderby, the sneering mill owner in Dickens’s “Hard Times,” Romney went on to say, “I have inherited nothing. Everything that Ann and I have, we earned the old-fashioned way.” Bounderby, it turned out, had exaggerated his humble origins, and so, of course, has Romney—not that anybody could possibly believe him. When your father was the C.E.O. of a big auto company and the governor of Michigan, and 
