So my friend John C.Wright does not understand why "the video" created so much scandal

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Let's see if we can help him a bit. We have a very rich man (although Romney's wealth can be exaggerated; he is not as rich, for instance, as Berlusconi, or as the average Russian or Arab crook, or indeed as his host during the fund-raiser where "the video" was shot). We have him sitting along with very many other very rich men, who have paid a small fortune to be there - none of us plebs welcome. We have him telling these people that he "does not care" - his words - for anyone who, for whatever reason, cannot afford to pay Federal income tax - such people are all spongers (all, the sick, the underpaid, the disabled, the old, the members of the military... all spongers) who depend on the State and therefore will vote with their wallet. Such people, of course, have no values to appeal to, no ambition, and no life except for the money (such enormous amounts, to be sure!) they get from the State; they make no contribution, pay no other tax, do no service - they are, one and all, thieves and scroungers. But still, even though he does not care for them, he wants to be President over them, and for this purpose he wants his fellow very rich people to give him lots of lovely lovely lolly to spend on purchasing the presidency. (His, evidently, was enough to purchase the Republican nomination against better men, but he still needs more.)

At which point I, as a person who would not be paying Federal income tax in the United States of America, beg to inform Mr.Romney that he has blown every last chance not only of my ever voting for him for so much as dog catcher, but even of not crossing the street if I see the bastard coming.

Comments

[affablestranger.livejournal.com]

The Mitt Romney, well, everything and the current crop of things calling themselves 'conservatives' these days really turn my stomach. I consider myself a conservative, especially when I compare my views to the views of so many others I know and many others I read/listen to, and the utter lack of compassion, understanding, and even humanity of so many these days often does floor me. Fear does such things to people, to otherwise decent people, and fear is what I believe has been generally driving things for some years now. And I don't quite understand why beyond thinking it's being peddled in vast quantities by people who desire the power it brings them, which is itself the most nauseating and angering of all.

[eliskimo.livejournal.com]

The word "conservative" carries very little true substance anymore. Two days ago, I realized an acquaintance and I who both self-identify as "conservative" have opposite views on just about everything. However, we each have a handful of views which place us in the conservative camp these days - just not the same ones!