THE STUMP FEBRUARY 21, 2012
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Gallup’s latest national poll shows Rick Santorum ahead of Mitt Romney nationally by 10 points, even as Romney has regained the edge in terms of which candidate Republicans think is most electable. Which is how you get a quote like this, which is enough to make any Beltway Republican bang his head against his granite counter-top:
“You cannot be so black and white that you turn off a lot of people,” said Patricia Schwarber, a consultant in Akron, Ohio, who nonetheless plans to support Mr. Santorum in Ohio’s primary on March 6 because she appreciates that he doesn’t “waver at all.”
But also in today’s Wall Street Journal was what surely has to be one of the greatest letters to the editor in quite some time:
Why, oh why, does the media bolster President Obama's rhetoric by using his term: “the rich”? Would it not be more appropriate to say “the successful,” or “those who work harder”?—H.B. McFadden, New Orleans.
And there you have it—the heedless and the clueless.
6 comments
"Or the job creators" Geez H.B. McFadden, get your GOP talking points down before writing to the WSJ. I'm surprised the letters editor didn't correct it. "Those who work harder". Must be why all those hotel maids and 70-hour-a-week mail order warehouse workers are so rich, I mean so successful.
- dubyadoubte
February 21, 2012 at 4:37pm
Is H.B. McFadden throwing under the bus those who are rich but don't work hard? Sounds to me like he is A-OK with big, fat taxes on inheritances and capital gains!
- wildboy
February 21, 2012 at 4:47pm
Uh huh!
- Sophia
February 21, 2012 at 7:00pm
I am a one percenter who hasn't worked in twenty two years. I don't create any jobs and I am hardly successful. I still honor the old gods, worship at the temple of Aphrodite and serve a few of the nine muses. I will vote again for Obama. I like his smile, call me crazy.
- paskunac
February 22, 2012 at 7:22am
The whole point of being rich is that you no longer have to work hard. Sure, Mitt is working very hard right now trying to perfect his impersonation of a human being so that he can grasp the reins of power (which he will then use to do whatever crazy people tell him to do), but he doesn't have to.
- GeoffG
February 22, 2012 at 9:22am
And thus, so easily are they led to vote against their own self-interest.
- GSpinks
February 22, 2012 at 11:49am