Wrong assessment. A lot of white people on social security vote for Republicans. They don’t pay income tax but are conservatives rather than marxist and Christian rather than amoral. The only guarenteed population Obama has is the permanent welfare mob.
That Romney writes off that many people shows, once again, that the GOP consultants are out of touch with Republican voters. Pretty pitiful.
It means that Romney did not learn his lesson from FL when his words were distorted about the poor.
We want a communicator to explain how and why capitalism is the engine of prosperity for ALL Americans, not someone to run people down.
Romney is stupidly, needlessly dividing Americans just as blatantly as Obama has been doing.
I hope I am wrong, but this is bad - because it feeds a stereotype.
Probably because neither Romney and his crew, nor the older white people on Social Security, think of Social Security as “welfare” nor as “dependency on government.”
Nor should they, since (theoretically at least) Social Security funds paid out were originally paid in, though we know this isn’t the case for the younger people on “disability” who draw from the program.
Yes... spot on.
Plenty of these people vote Republican, and infact Santorum did so well in the primaries because of these people.
I dont think this is good for Romney.