Four years ago, Barack Obama’s popular vote total continued to grow for weeks and weeks after the election as states completed counting up all their overseas and provisional and absentee ballots. The same thing is happening this year, and Obama is now nearly up to 51% of the vote, while Romney has fallen below 48 percent. As this diarist points out, Romney is now stuck at 47.9%, which is an ironic number for him to have, no? How did he get stuck with the moochers?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Well, Rmoney got stuck with the moochers because his unassailable impregnable base of deep red states is filled with moochers. The states of Team Red receive the most Socialist Communistic federal aid under a wide variety of federal programs (such as agricultural price supports), and have for decades.
All while imagining themselves the Last True Americans who rely on nobuddy n’ nothin’ but their own bootstraps, by God!! Delusional, but they are “conservatives”, after all….
Now, when exactly is our little “conservative” moocher GregP/Neal/Drew/Stinky/Whatever gonna show up and explain how–oh how!—his precious smilin’ Bishop coulda ever lost to the Kommunist Kenyan Moocher-in-Chief? Where’s the brave wingnut now? Sold all the wildly profitable health clubs and used the proceeds on militia gear? Already locked away in a mountain survivalist cabin? We care!
To clarify, they receive more federal aid/spending than they pay in federal taxes. Sorry for any confusion.
Still moochin’, however.
Well, I, for one plan to never work again now that Obama’s been elected. I’m just going to demand my free food, free house, free car, free stuff. Obviously that’s all I have to do, which is why I made my four or five small donations plus phone calls and canvassing. A worthwhile investment for sure. Perhaps Mitt can help me calculate my return on investment now that I no longer have to work the 60 or 70 hours per week that I typically work.
“The states of Team Red receive the most Socialist Communistic federal aid under a wide variety of federal programs (such as agricultural price supports), and have for decades. “
Yup. They sure suck down those sweet fed subsidies for crops, grazing, water, mineral, timber, roads…etc etc. Thank God they ain’t ‘welfare people.’
The 47% comment revealed a lot of things in a lot of different ways. Look back on it now in the context of Project Orca and the news that Romney’s internal pollsters were “unskewing” their own polls. Dumbshit Romney and his class of aristocrats actually believed that 47% of the people are mooching on government. It wasn’t just a line … that’s how they think things work.
Now, in that same speech Romney showed some actual insight when he talked about their focus group studies on the 2008 Obama voters who they hoped to convert to Romney voters. Talked about how they liked Obama and would reject nasty lies about him, but could be convinced that Obama had had a chance and been over his head.
Yes, there were signs that he might actually be able to process data and come up with a good strategy. But his Fucked News-shaped world view got in the way. He didn’t realize that the “47%” in 2009 included 28% who paid taxes on their 1040s, just not technically income tax, and 10% who are retired and living on social security and medicare … benefits from their past taxes. He also didn’t realize just how many of his redneck, Limbaugh-listening, bigoted supporters are in the 47%.
I still think the Democrats have done a HORRIBLE job addressing that misinformation. The 2 or 3 15- and 20-second ads from Obama barely scratched the surface. This was the opportunity Obama blew in the first debate — to explain what I did above about the 47% and hammer the stake deep into Romney’s political heart.
But the GOP’s fatal flaws continue to include 1) their total groupthink, as illustrated by their belief in the 47% myth, and 2) the bigoted frankenvoters that dominate their base.