I guess with the low or no taxes Romney pays, and adding that he wants to lower his and his buddies the millionaires taxes even lower, to near 0%, his mission is to ensure they contribute absolutely NOTHING to to feed the hungry, heal the sick, or house the poor. You could also throw in they don't want to pay for the last 2 wars, or the one Mitt and Adelson are planning, or in fact anything taxes pay for at all.

Imagine the gall of the poor, elderly, disabled or ill, thinking they have a right to a check, for food! or health care! or a roof over their head! In God's Own Party America! That is money that no billionaire can send overseas to secret tax avoiding accounts friends!

On top of that, they want to force women, even rape victims, to carry to term fetuses that the women are not ready for mentally, physically or financially. Then they are on their own.

Also from the video

"My dad, as you probably, know was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico ... and, uh, had he been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this," Romney said. "But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico.... I mean I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino."

I guess he can count on not closing the Hispanic gap.

In Mitt Romney's view, the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax should "take personal responsibility and care for their lives."  Wow.  All I can say is if that is not an out-and-out disqualifier for someone who wants to be President of the United States, I'm not sure what is.  

Evidently he thinks that 47 percent of his fellow citizens, people he aspires to lead some four months from now, want handouts from the federal government.  How insulting and condescending can you get?  I would venture to say that were Mitt Romney to trade places and live a single day in the shoes of the vast majority of that 47 percent, he would be crying Uncle.  

The vast majority want not much more than an economy that affords enough decent living wage jobs that they might be able to get one, the better to be able to feed themselves and their families themselves, without the need for any assistance from the federal or any other level of government.  Oh, and most would like to live in a country where they believe the people who are its most privileged and powerful members are at least trying to see to it that such opportunities might be widely available to the generations to come, instead of grabbing anything and everything they can for themselves, today and regardless of the consequences of the ways they do this for their fellow citizens.

One way of understanding why so many people don't earn enough to pay federal income taxes is that the most powerful actors in our society have permitted our economic system to become rigged, such that virtually the entire increase in income and wealth in our society over the past 30 years has gone to those no farther down than the top 10% of the distribution.  The bottom 90% has stagnated over that period of time, even with many more two-income families.  This is fact.  And as the late Senator Moynihan said, people are entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.    

Yet Mr. Romney supports policies which would further exacerbate these destructive trends.  That is a prescription for a dangerous decline in confidence in the legitimacy of any society, one that predictably will lead to increasing political instability and unrest.  As we have seen in recent years.

The real question, by Mr. Romney's lights, would then appear to be: Why can't the bottom 90% simply take more responsibility and "care enough for their lives" to be that top 10%?   This sort of thought process suggests a stupefying degree of obtuseness and obliviousness to some minimal comprehension of what it takes for a society such as ours to thrive.    

The man is hopelessly out of touch with how ordinary Americans live and what has been going on in this country over the past 30 years or so.  He could not hope to govern well.

@fivethirtyeight But those other ten percent will live forever in our hearts. #polititainment

— Elly Blue (@ellyblue) September 17, 2012

@fivethirtyeight You're always bumming everyone out with your "numbers" and "facts" and "level headedness." Just stop.

— Drew Toal (@LordAndrewToal) September 17, 2012