Romney: Barack Obama Voters 'Dependent On Government

[minionofmidas]

So, this is Romney's very own "clinging to guns and religion" moment?

They shall take the income tax I owe, from my cold, dead hands.

[minionofmidas]

Of course they are.

And this sort of response is why I disagree that this will all that adversely affect Romney's campaign.  It's insulting to the people who are voting for Obama, but most of the people who would vote for Romney probably agree with it and say "of course".  It's unsurprising to both sides that he'd hold such a view.

Yes; a gaffe is only damaging (genuinely damaging) if it alters perceptions.

I just read the exact opposite from the electoral-vote.com guy :

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http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Pres/Maps/Sep18.html#item-1

Romney does not want to be President for the upper half. That'd be every other post-Truman President bar Johnson (and Nixon, who had no intention whatsoever to be President for anybody but himself.) Rommney feels nothing but cold contempt for 96% of the upper half - these are barely-human creatures comparable to the lower half... things.

[minionofmidas]

Only a small effect in terms of the actual insults

Nice typo. Was that on purpose?