Red states are welfare queens, not Blue states

Let Them Eat Crab Cake

By MAUREEN DOWD, NYT

WASHINGTON

Oh, for the days when we thought Mitt Romney didn’t stand for anything.

As a secret video from a Boca Raton fund-raiser with high rollers in May shows, Romney in private stands for so many bizarre things that it’s hard to tell what’s crazier — his domestic policy or his foreign policy.

Less than 50 days before the election, we learn that Romney may have given up on half of America and on Mideast peace.

In a reply to a fat cat at the $50,000-a-plate dinner, he wrote off 47 percent of the country as deadbeats, freeloaders and “victims” who feel they’re entitled to stuff — stuff like basic sustenance.

“Well, there are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what,” he said. “All right? There are 47 percent who are with him. Who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they’re entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.”

(More here. VV note: Mitt is wrong to say that 47 percent of those who are dependent upon government will vote for President Obama. Many will vote for Mr. Romney. It's a basic fact that Red states suck far more from the federal teat than Blue states, which provide more to the federal treasury than they receive back in benefits.)