Foot Firmly in Mouth

MITT ROMNEY just got caught in the same damnable trap which has ensnared so many other fine upstanding citizens who are constantly in the public eye: he momentarily forget that he is constantly in the public eye, that the microphone is never turned off, the camera is never turned away.

You would almost think that someone as accustomed as mitt romney to always being the center of attention would never have such a lapse, never forget about always being heard, and would never, ever utter anything blatantly stupid and self damaging.

Roughly paraphrased, he said that obama has a built in advantage in the presidential election, because nearly half the people in this country think of themselves as victims, who deserve every form of financial support the government can give them. And these 47% of the american population refuse to take responsibility for their own lives, and he, unfortunately, can't help them do it. Or something like that.

Actually he said much more, implying that many poor americans and even not so poor americans feel a sense of entitlement and victimization, 47% pay no income tax, and lack a sense of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps, a sense of jump in, and get what's yours.

The people to whom mitt was speaking were elegantly dressed wealthy conservative romney political campaign benefactors. Obama smelled blood faster than a wolf near a trout farm, and started blazing away, something to the effect that his republican opponent has written off half the country.

And what's worse, mitt stands by what he said. He made the remarks in may, so it would seem insincere to repudiatee and apologize now. So he stands by calling half the american people, the poorer half, lazy, unproductive, and self serving. Considering how bad the economy is, mitt should be beating obama badly, but because of himself, because of who he really is, he isn't.

This one in fact ranks right up there with what mitt said several months ago, something to the effect that he isn't worried about the very rich and the very poor, because the wealthy can take care of themselves, and the poor are taken care of by the government.

Sometimes mitt must feel like hs should quit while he's ahead. Only, he isn't ahead, and this isn't likely to help. Romney spends too darned much time acting and talking like a life long rich kid who has no knowledge of poor or middle class people. His self proclaimed championship of the middle class emerges sounding hollow, insincere. 

It quickly becomes a mystery why anyone who isn't wealthy would vote for mitt, and why he is even close to obama in the polls. If he keeps talking, he won't be.

Bb

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