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" So in case you missed it, and you probably didn&amp;#039;t, Willard Romney went on CNN this morning, basking in the afterglow of his purchase of the Florida primary, and he immediately tripped over the one foot that wasn&amp;#039;t already in his mouth: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not concerned with the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I&amp;#039;ll fix it. I&amp;#039;m not concerned about the very rich, they&amp;#039;re doing just fine. I&amp;#039;m concerned about the very heart of the America, the 90 percent, 95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling.&amp;quot; Okay, most of the attention has already been levelled at that first part, which is so absolutely true that it&amp;#039;s a wonder Willard&amp;#039;s tongue didn&amp;#039;t turn to fire as he said it. He&amp;#039;s spent most of the day walking it back. On the other hand, Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog may be right in saying that this is actually a cute ploy by Romney to divide the poor-but-not-destitute from the Really Poor. We&amp;#039;ll see how often he trots it out going forward. But I&amp;#039;d like to draw your attention to another part of what he said to Soledad O&amp;#039;Brien. The challenge right now \u2014 we will hear from the Democrat party the plight of the poor. And there&amp;#039;s no question it&amp;#039;s not good being poor. And we have a safety net to help those that are very poor, but campaign is focused is on middle-income Americans. My campaign \u2014 you can choose where to focus. You can focus on the rich, that&amp;#039;s not my focus. You can focus on the very poor, that&amp;#039;s not my focus. Okay, try for the moment to ignore the living definition of the phrase &amp;quot;condescending maladroit&amp;quot; that we have here in the sentence, &amp;quot;And there&amp;#039;s no question it&amp;#039;s not good being poor.&amp;quot; And try for the moment not to remember that &amp;quot;the safety net&amp;quot; is pretty shabby, and that Romney&amp;#039;s economic proposals pretty much would shred what was left. Instead, check out what he said there at the beginning: &amp;quot;The challenge right now \u2014 we will hear from the Democrat party...&amp;quot; Whoa. Stop. Rewind. &amp;quot;...the Democrat party...&amp;quot; In case you had any remaining doubts, our Willard has gone full wingnut. &amp;quot;Democrat party&amp;quot; is always the giveaway, a sniggering, dumbass rhetorical loogie originally hawked up by Joe McCarthy. It&amp;#039;s the way you send a message to the other, dumber members of the tribe that you&amp;#039;re with them. I heard him say it a couple of times in South Carolina and thought, damn, Willard, you&amp;#039;d dress up like Madame LaFarge and dance the hootchie-koo if you thought it meant five votes from these goons. If he starts winking and saying, &amp;quot;You betcha!&amp;quot;, I&amp;#039;m really off the train. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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