Here's to the lazy ones. The moochers. The victims. The freeloaders. The brown dregs and the square pols. The ones who want free handouts. They're not fond of working hard, and they have no respect for the hard-working. You can feed them, house them, hospitalize, or you-name-it them. About the only thing you can't do is get them to accept personal responsibility. Because they just want things. They push the other campaign slogan "Forward". And while some may see them as just wanting a little help, we see dependency. Because the people who are lazy enough to think they can pay no income taxes - are the ones who do vote for Obama." -Mitt Romney
We've all heard it by now: Romney, at a May fundraiser in Florida, talking to a sea of rich faces, happily lashing away at an imagined 47% percent of grandmas, college students, soldiers, war vets, and working-class people who barely make enough to get by Americans that don't believe in hard work, who want to sit back and get free, unearned government handouts, who have dependency-driven victim complexes, and who won't vote for Romney not by arriving at this decision through their own intelligence and free will, but rather by sheer zombified allegiance to healthcare, food, housing, you-name-it. You know, the moochers.
Romney dialed back his comments as inelegant. Paul Ryan called Romney inarticulate. But setting this aside for a moment, and forgetting the political world's nearly-unanimous negative reaction to this video—the spin; the drama; the denunciations of Romney's worldview and the quasi-analyses of his mettle; the allegations that Romney might still win if absolutely everything goes wrong for Obama and the country from here on out; even the hand-wringing from the conservative side, before and after the comments went public—I want to ask you a simple question:
Is a guy who believes in almost half the country about as much as he believes in Middle East peace talks really eligible to become our leader?
Or should we elect the guy that's been saying "We're all in this together" since 1998?