Best case... what percentage of the voting public will vote for obama? He got 53% last time. I’d say bottom line is 47% and those are who romney is referencing. He is right, it is the truth and we cannot allow the truth to become defeat. **** the 47%. They have ****ed up my entire life long efforts and I will NEVER forgive nor will I forget.
LLS
“There is a problem with the sentiment Romney expressed, though it’s not one the press or the left (but I repeat myself) will pick up on and criticize: he seems to assume those currently dependent on government support wish to remain that way.”
Just as in olde England there were “the deserving poor” and “the undeserving poor”, it’s important for Romney (and conservatives) to draw a distinction between “the deserving entitlees” and the “un-deserving entitlees”.
I would consider those who have worked their entire lives, and who now draw upon Social Security and Medicare, to be of the former category.
Romney must convince them that he is NOT referring “to them” when he talks about “the dependent society”. Otherwise, he (and coservatives) are going to lose on this one.