Wonder just how tickled 'Lyin Ryan' is now about being a part of this 'team'.  They so deserve each other. 

Your post nailed it too, very nicely.

Thanks to you ,Richard Day and chthonic for covering this .

I can't refrain from repeating the obvious, but correct, comment made by several : Romney is voicing exactly what nearly all  the 1% think.

For my sins I spent several years attending board of directors meetings .What Romney said is exactly what was said at the lunches that followed. Along with two old standbys: complaints that mothers took  infants onto planes (their crying was sometimes audible  in first class), and  blacks wanted to be called "blacks" instead of negroes. 

The cliches about the 1% are true. Well about most of them. There was the occasional director who  looked silently at his plate while these trusty old shibbelothes were rolled out.

A tanka haiku for 09-17-12:

A date which will live

in toast-dom.Romney insults 

half of the country.

Half the country's lazy bums?

Ayn Rand has rotted his brain.

To say the 47% of this nation simply wish to sit around and take money from the government for doing nothing is an insult to everyone that has ever needed assistance to get over a tough patch of terrain. But beyond that, it shows a fundamental lack of understanding about what this country is about and what role government plays in people's lives. This day will be remembered as the day the absurdly anti-American belief of Romney and the extremists in the GOP, that "The elites deserve, and everyone else is lazy and a drain on society", was shown to be what it is; heartless, mean-spirited and an outrageous attempt to establish an American plutocracy. It is the day Americans need to stand up and say, "I am NOT lazy and un-motivated to work. I have rightfully been given assistance when needed, by a government that wants me to succeed." We are not 300 million individuals living in separate bunkers, we are the United States, individuals, brought together, by choice, through common goals and values. America is NOT every man for themselves, it is everyone working together, striving to form a 'more perfect union.' Romney accuses me of not paying taxes, because I get a tax refund every year ... As if I don't pay taxes in other forms every single day of my life, from sales taxes, to property taxes, to state and city taxes. He's a damned liar. Perhaps if the trickle down theory actually worked, I'd make enough to reach the threshold of owing taxes, but I don't, because Romney and the other elites believe that all breaks should be given to the 'job creators', and not to the loyal and skilled workers that make up the American workforce. Romney also believe that if I don't agree with his vision, then, as President, he would have the right to ignore me and only be the President for his supporters. These ideas are anathema to me and should be to all Americans. A President is the leader of the entire country, not just the 50 percent plus one that elected them. My families have been here from the very founding of this country. I am proud to have ancestors that fought in the Revolutionary war. I am proud to be an American, but I am not proud of this short-sighted, selfish, uncaring, unfeeling vision for America's future. I reject that kind of cynicism and Romney's belief that Americans are lazy and want to do nothing but sit around and take money from the government. Shame on Romney for not understanding what the America of the average, struggling middle class person is all about. Romney is the last thing America needs and I am confident that Romney and his cynical, heartless beliefs will be consigned to the ash-bin of history in November.