““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 upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…
“And I mean the president starts off with 48, 49 … he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn’t connect. So he’ll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that’s what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to convince the five to ten percent in the center that are independents that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not.”
Do the libs really want to run with this? I’m not seeing the “OMG HOW DARE YOU” in this at all.
That is why Romney is killing with the independent vote. And this gives him a nice jolt with the right.
This touches on something I've tried to say from time to time. Repubs habitually blab on about tax cuts as short hand for a real discussion about freedom and limited government. It doesn't really work. We need candidates who can actually articulate the whole moral argument about freedom because at this late stage of the republic hardly anyone younger than a certain age have every heard it. If we don't make the argument not only do we lose the argument but with our passing it will be written out of the history books altogether.
I'm glad Romney has made this point. He needs to take it further.