For the first time Romney actually spoke like a Conservative and its about damn time. Obama voters ARE freeloaders..anyone that saw the DNC Convention knows that. They were all crying for free birth control, free abortions, free health care, free condoms, free everything..YES they are freeloaders. I hope EVERYONE sees the video because the media will be forced to show the WHOLE thing and once people see it they will see that Romney is right. Romney won’t apologize because what he said is absolutely correct. Do we want to live in freedom or do we want America to become Venezuela, I guess in the next few days we will find out what the American people want. We will see what the polls show and I hope to God it shows that the American people want freedom
Freeloaders is exactly what they are. A good way for Romney to finesse this would be to play a clip of Obama saying “everyone has to have some skin in the game”. Everyone? Remind working people about the statistic that came out just yesterday that it takes 16 workers to cover every 1 non worker.
The problem is that Mitt cares as little about individual freedom as Obama does. He is just as big a fan of regulation -- though he'd prefer different regulations. In his time in MA I don't recall that he ever objected to any boneheaded regulation passed by the legislature or put in place by some agency or commission. Oh, wait -- when they passed the state-wide ban on smoking in restaurants, he said he'd prefer that local gov'ts rule. No suggestion that maybe the owners should decide!
Mitt said he can't teach those people personal responsibility. He can't "teach" them? That's as arrogant as Obama! I don't see how you can expect personal responsibility from people whose sphere of liberty is rapidly shrinking. On the one side, you have gov't stomping down on things like local hair-braiding "businesses," local jitneys (NY a few years ago), and even kids' lemonade stands and bake sales of any kind. When gov't makes every decision for everyone, you can only expect personal responsibility to fade away! It's no wonder drug dealing is the biggest business in the ghetto -- no licensing required, no gov't regulation, no paper qualifications needed, no OSHA visits, no EPA obstruction, no EEOC filings, etc., etc., etc.
At the other end of the spectrum, you have the likes of Jon Corzine -- an example of taking personal responsibility for the masses? Barak "Bush's Fault" Obama?
Mitt has no "vision" -- those recent comments only solidify his image as a bean counter for whom money is (to coin a phrase) not the most important thing -- it's the only thing!
When Mitt is willing to write off 47% of the country, he's reinforcing Obama's class warfare theme IMO.
You have it nailed.