This is going to be a short diary. But there are two points I want to make about the Romney videos that I think Democrats can use to broaden and deepen the implications of his remarks as they bear on the American electorate.
First, it should be obvious that what Romney did was to reveal in an extraordinarily clear and difficult-to-defend way what the Republican Party has been up to since at least the 1980's. The effect of this shouldn't be limited to the Presidential race. This is the nominal leader of the Republican Party telling a group of highly influential supporters how the Republican Party perceives the American middle class. I think this has the potential to resonate to a large number of down-ballot races across the country.
Second, this isn't just Romney speaking for the Republican Party. It's Romney speaking to a rapt and complicit group of wealthy donors. The same wealthy donors who have been fighting for three decades for unlimited campaign donations, the deregulation of the financial industry and the oil companies, and the gutting of almost every government program that middle-class Americans depend on for their daily survival. And the audience was silent. They got exactly what they came for.