To this day, Mitt Romney is convinced that he lost the presidency in 2012 because Barack Obama unfairly gave Latino-Americans subsidized health insurance; gave women free reproductive health coverage (excluding abortion); and gave other groups similar “gifts.” He could “never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
关键点在于，美国保守主义精英相信布鲁克斯、埃伯斯塔特和穆雷。眼下，罗姆尼相信他之所以输掉2012年总统大选，是因为奥巴马不公平地给了拉丁裔美国人健康保险补贴，给了妇女免费的生殖健康保险（不含流产），还给了其他群体类似的“礼物”。他绝不会“让他们认为他们应该承担个人责任，看好自己的生活。”