Even the 47% Are Hard To Convince

It would seem that with Mitt Romney and the GOP falling all over themselves mocking and denigrating every demographic except white, blue-eyed blonde haired two-year olds, he would not be doing THIS well:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/157508/romney-support-among-lowest-income-voters.aspx

Just think, the people that will benefit the LEAST from the Romney/Ryan administration (and I use that term loosely) are the very ones that seem to support them. Well, and the VERY rich of course...

Then there is just one other thing that the Right can play off of, that seems to work very well...with the help of such entities as FOX News:

".... or the feeling of belonging to the dominant, superior race, is simply greater than the need to vote for one's own interest. These hillbillies (sic) sleep better at night....knowing that as long as they're white, they are not inferior, no matter how poor. You could try to appeal to them with facts, except their feelings of intellectual inferiority causes incredible resentment toward anyone showing any intelligence at all.... If you think for a second that they're now not going to vote for Romney because of this brouhaha, you are sadly deluded. These people believe in an implicit wink and nod agreement from conservative elites that they'll still continue to get whatever assistance they may be getting, and that the cuts to these programs will fall almost solely on blacks and Hispanics. They are white. They vote for the white party. They vote for the party that isn't beholden to high falutin' facts that make them feel stupid..."  (comment from)

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gallup-one-third-of-lowest-income-voters-support

Most of the 47% do not realize this either:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/09/20/881151/study-wealthy-americans-receive-far-more-tax-breaks-than-the-poorest/ 

I'm not even sure that the Republicans death to the veterans job bill will make a large dent, but it should. A large percent of returning veterans, along with seniors on Social Security, are part of Romney's 47%.

"However, Veterans Jobs Corps bill co-sponsor Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) said on the Senate floor today that “this bill is fully paid for and does not violate pay-go rules.” Murray even tried to include most of the provisions of a competing Republican bill but Democrats still ran into opposition. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he would block the measure until the Pakistani doctor that aided the CIA in looking for Osama bin Laden was freed, while Coburn claimed the bill would have no chance of passing the House so it wasn’t worth the effort."http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/09/19/875351/republicans-kill-vets-job-bill/

I guess someone....more eloquent and smarter than I am....was right:

“Socialism (or progressivism in our case) never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― John Steinbeck

A Challenge For Romney

Seems like, not everyone of the "Christian-leaning" population in this country is enamored with the Republican presidential candidate. There are some that are able to read between the lines, and are not afraid to question him on a few things, unlike a certain Fair and Balanced network....

 A group of nuns is not taking his welfare stance very kindly, but have offered him an invitation to experience poverty first hand:

 'If Romney were to accept their invitation, Campbell said she would take him to places like St. Augustine’s in Cleveland, where food programs “provide a hand up” to the community’s neediest members. “He thinks they’re lazy,” Campbell said, in reference to Romney’s misleading welfare reform ad. “It is hard work to keep things together when you’re poor. He doesn’t have a clue. Let him talk to them, and maybe they’ll touch his heart. And his mind too."

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/08/658741/nuns-challenge-romney/

I say, Bless You Sister........but that last sentence presents the problem. I truly believe this man has no heart. I also am beginning to wonder if he is putting his mind to good use...probably not since Grover Norquist has already stated that all the Republican Party really needs (and wants) is someone to just sign his name on the line they ask him to.

And speaking of minds:

REPUBLICAN OFFICIAL: PEOPLE WITH OBAMA BUMPER STICKERS ARE ‘MENTALLY RETARDED’ | At an election party last night, Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County GOP Chair, Jim Roddey, brought the crowd to laughter and applause by calling an Obama supporter “mentally retarded.” Roddey, who is a long-time supporter of Mitt Romney,told the joke to a crowd of about 200:  “I was very embarrassed. I was in this parking lot and there was a man looking for a space to park, and I found a space for him. And I felt badly — he looked like he was sort of in distress. And I said, ‘Sir, here’s a place.’ And he said, ‘That’s a handicapped space.’ I said, ‘Oh I’m so sorry, I saw that Obama sticker and I thought you were mentally retarded.’”

This is what today's GOP is appealing to.

 “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
~John Kenneth Galbraith

NO Food Stamps For You.....

we need more bombs.

As usual the Repubs are planning on cutting services for the very "least" of us while giving more to the "biggest" of us. The best way, in their minds, to get this economy moving in the "RIGHT" direction is to grow out military complex. War, for some in this country, is big business.

I wonder how many of them or the Right Wingers they are trying to influence, even remember this:

“When poverty is
considered hopeless, America is condemned to permanent social
division, becoming a nation of caste and class, divided by
fences and gates and guards.

Our task is clear, and it's
difficult: we must build our country's unity by extending our
country's blessings…

We are committed to compassion
for practical reasons. When men and women are lost to
themselves, they are also lost to our nation. When millions are
hopeless, all of us are diminished by the loss of their
gifts…

The hope we seek is found in safe havens for
battered women and children, in homeless shelters, in crisis
pregnancy centers, in programs that tutor and conduct job
training and help young people when they happen to be on
parole. All these efforts provide not just a benefit, but
attention and kindness, a touch of courtesy, a dose of
grace…

This is my message today: there is no great
society which is not a caring society. And any effective war on
poverty must deploy what Dorothy Day called "the weapons of
spirit…”

My administration increases funding for
major social welfare and poverty programs by 8
percent…

...I leave you with this challenge: serve a
neighbor in need. Because a life of service is a life of
significance. Because materialism, ultimately, is boring, and
consumerism can build a prison of wants. Because a person who
is not responsible for others is a person who is truly alone.
Because there are few better ways to express our love for
America than to care for other Americans.

~ G.W. Bush,
Notre Dame,
2001

http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/2001/05/Remarks-By-
The-President-Of-The-United-States-Of-America.aspx

And on another note, just to show you how generous these guys are, there's this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/student-loan-bill-passes-house_n_1459347.html

The Repubs love the poor, students and women.