Mitt Romney may have at last made errors that he can’t overcome, even with the help of a highly financed ad campaign.
The more he talks, the more he reveals that he is stunningly uninformed. Today he’s trying to deal with a video, obtained by Mother Jones Magazine, of a talk to wealthy Republican donors. In it, he portrays nearly half of American voters as dulards and moochers who rely on government help instead of trying to improve their lives.
Romney has tried to explain the comments, saying he could have spoken a bit more eloquently. The problem for Romney, however, is that he couldn’t have been clearer. He is beyond being out of touch with a large swath of voters; he doesn’t respect them and he blames them for the nation’s economic troubles.
But even worse for a presidential candidate, Romney doesn’t understand what he has done. The New York Times’ David Brooks makes this point as well as anyone in this morning’s <a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/brooks-thurston-howell-romney.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1347976905-TgUkJzyynMcJsGVLB+Ha3g
“>column. The comments suggest, Brooks writes, “that he really doesn’t know much about the country he inhabits. Who are these freeloaders? Is it the Iraq war veteran who goes to the VA? Is it the student getting a loan to go to college? Is it the retiree on Social Security or Medicare?”
Brooks calls Romney’s comments “country-club fantasy.” They reinforce negative stereotypes that aren’t true, and they make the point that the Obama team has been making since the beginning of the campaign: Romney doesn’t get it.
The Romney team, from most reports, is in a state of confusion. This was supposed to be the week they hit the campaign’s reset button. But it seems like they hit “delete” instead.
This article appears in Show Time: The Rochester Fringe Festival.
Is there any doubt that a Romney administration would favor the rich and increase the income gap in our country? Mitt is a pariah in Mormon Clothing and will stop at nothing to expand an empire of greed for the rich in this country by expanding tax cuts for the 1% of the wealthiest Americans. He’s out to gut the Middle Class for every red cent he can get. Will his sacred Mormon underwear grant him the protection and money to buy this election? See for yourself as Mitt dons his tighty-whities sent down from the Good Lord Himself at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/05…
Democrat voters are “dulards [sic] and moochers”? Now, that’s not fair. Thousands of registered Democrats are upstanding (?) graveyard denizens, literary characters, and other assorted figments of the imagination.
Anyway, the election remains about one thing and one thing only: Obama’s disastrous record of failure, incompetence and extremism.
It’s a sad sign of desperation and lack of seriousness that the Obama campaign (and City is without an inkling of a doubt a participant in that campaign, not a reporter) continues to latch onto process stories and gaffes, whether it be the ill-fated Bain offensive or this acontextual gotcha. Facts are hard. And they aren’t favorable. Gotchas won’t make the burgeoning fiscal crisis disappear, record unemployment less onerous, foreign policy ineptidude less egregious (“leading from behind” in Libya), or even our perception in the world less effective (favorability ratings of the US in Muslim countries are now lower than under Pres. Bush). Begin to address these instead of the latest horse-race dynamics, and you’ll start to approach being a credible voice regarding our country’s future.
Until then, just another shill mill.
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. “Thousands of registered Democrats are upstanding (?) graveyard denizens, literary characters, and other assorted figments of the imagination.”
jam – Would it be too much of a strain for you to provide some backup to your claim of Democratic voter fraud?
We hear a lot of noise from the Right about how they want to protect the integrity of the electoral process. But when proof that a problem exists is requested the best that they can come up with is a very small handful of people (out of tens of millions of voters) convicted of voting illegally. The Bush administration Justice Department spent years looking for proof that there is a problem and came up dry. But perhaps you have the evidence of these “thousands” of illegal voters which so far your fellow travelers have been unable to locate?