In
one short, publicly released video clip we now know for certain a couple of
previously assumed facts about Mitt Romney: that he has an utter disdain for
the nation’s poor, working class and minorities, and that he believes every
single one of President Obama’s supporters belongs to a parasitical underclass
of voters sponging off the government. You know your campaign's in serious
trouble when The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol calls you “arrogant
and stupid.”
The
man who recently told Meet the Press' David Gregory that every time he speaks
10-million people are watching, spoke before thirty supporters at a closed door
$50,000 per person fundraiser earlier this year in Boca Raton, FL and forgot
that tens of millions of people are watching.
Here’s
an excerpt of what Romney told his rich, white benefactors:
"There
are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.
All right -- there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on
government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that
government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are
entitled to health care, to food, to housing. My job is not to worry about
those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility
and care for their lives."
I
happen to be in that 47% group Romney so effortlessly and summarily demeans and
disparages. For the record, I am not dependent or reliant on government
assistance. I do not receive unemployment checks, food stamps or Medicaid, nor
do I reside in any sort of subsidized housing.
In fact, I not only have a job but own a business which employs forty people,
which makes me one of those omnipotent job creators Romney & Co. claims to
speak for ad infinitum.
Romney
also took a cheap shot at Hispanics:
“My
dad, as you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a
car company. But he was born in Mexico… and had he been born of, uh, Mexican
parents, I’d have a better shot at winning this. But he was unfortunately born
to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I mean, I
say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino.”
Hear
that sound? That’s the blissful sound of Latinos saying “Hasta la
vista, baby!” to El Grande Blanco CEO.
Just
for an extra laugh, Romney also predicted that the stock markets would rise if
he were elected. Sure, we all know how desperately the Dow and NASDAQ need that
Romney Bounce, having increased just 107% and 155%
respectively since Obama took office.
Realizing
his silver foot was firmly back in his mouth yet again, Romney gave a lame press
conference 10PM Monday night and, as has become his standard m.o., doubled-down, stood his ground
and simply referred to his remarks as “not elegantly
stated.” Just exactly how would he have “elegantly
stated” that he thinks everyone who voted for Obama is a worthless
unemployed piece of government-raping garbage?
To
be sure, Romney’s remarks underscore just how painfully out of touch he is with
the average American…and with reality in general. He lives in a parallel
universe, where privilege and elitism are just the sort of entitlements he
contemptuously accuses the poor, blacks and other minorities of mooching from
government. I guess it’s easy to tell
everyone else how to make it on their own when you’re a
silver-spooner whose rich, connected daddy paved your road
to success.
I
have some advice for Romney: before you write off every Obama supporter as a
lazy, shiftless leech who sucks America's budget dry...check the statistics on
poor, uneducated, unemployed white men and see who they're supporting
politically. These are your people, Mitt.
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