Friday, November 16, 2012

Mitt Romney's America: Why Makers, 'Gifts', and Takers Is a Losing Vision

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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/mitt-romneys-america-why-makers-gifts-and-takers-is-a-losing-vision/265324/

“If you're running for elected office and find yourself in the business of blaming the voters, stop. Odds are, you're losing. Or you've just lost.

It was true for millions of Bush-era Democrats, who rallied around What's the Matter With Kansas and its ilk when it seemed the party had lost middle America to allegedly duped "values voters" forever. And it was true of Mitt Romney, who told donors in an unscripted moment this summer that he had written off the 47% of the country that doesn't pay federal income taxes because they were "dependent on government" and would "vote for the president no matter what."

And there Romney went again yesterday, using his first public words since the election to blame his loss on minorities receiving "gifts" from the Obama administration.”

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