Yeah, I kinda suspect that to be the case. Couldn't prove it though if I'm honest. Poorer households tend to be larger...
It seems to me that a lack of education causes people to breed more.
I mostly just think that it's amusing to watch as Romney pisses in the faces of his own supporters. Nice campaigning there fella!
To be fair, he was speaking to a private group of rich people. He didn't intend for the poor people to hear him making fun of them.
What I mostly found so funny was that Romney should insult low-income republicans like that. He should have known that he was smearing some of his own. He's conflating this 47% with Obama voters, when a child ought to be able to predict that in fact, many of them are going to be Republican or just not Obama supporters. The image fairly heavily implies that there are indeed a hell of a lot of people that in the 47% who vote Republican.
I think we need to drop the "47%" number if we're gonna discuss what he was really talking about. He was talking about people who he thinks don't take personal responsibility for themselves and instead rely on government assistance. He thinks that those people are going to vote for the party that favors giving the hand-outs no matter what and that there's no point in him trying to get their vote with his platform. He equated that group with the "47% that don't pay taxes" and that's certainly wrong, but he wasn't really talking about the people in that 47% group that don't match his caricature.
Key words there; "I don't doubt that not all of them did". Of course you don't doubt it, because those of us not living on Planet Mitt know full well that the 47% percent will include both Republicans and Democrats... and Libertarians and Greens, and other small party voters... and a hell of a lot who just don't vote. That's a big part of what makes this so stupid; people don't vote in uniform blocks like that. This whole line of rhetoric stinks of a naive view of how the world works or at least panders to one.
Right - and its even dumber than that. Even taking the subset of that 47% that
are the moochers, there are still a portion of them that vote republican. The poor whitetrash hillbilly types that are more interested in gun rights come to mind.
If it's deliberate bullshit, I'm not sure that makes it any better. Is this really the best bullshit he could come up with? It's transparently stupid, it insults some of his base supporters and it makes Romney look out of touch with the real world.
There's a whole group of wealthy white people who think that poor minorities are a bunch of welfare queens. The welfare queens certainly exist, I see them in
East St. Louis all the time. What's unclear is how many there actually are. The whole 47% thing seems to be an attempt to inflate their numbers... to rally the troops against them. There's lots of emails being passed around by my parents generation (I'm 31) about things like
Ineptocracy. "We just
have to get Obama out because they're redistributing our wealth to those lazy poor people that vote for a living instead of working for one."
The way he talks about it though, it's as though 47% will support Obama and the other 53% is, at least in part, still to play for. Well if that's the case he's totally screwed. A block vote of that size would swing it. It doesn't strike me as the best thing to say at a fundraiser.
Well he is totally screwed. That whole side of the coin is. The moochers are out breeding them anyways.
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