‘The 47%’ Admit They Could Never Vote For Mitt Romney in 2012

            A few months back, Mitt Romney said that about 47% of Americans would never vote for him, due to their over dependence on the government.  He drew the ‘47%’ statistic was drawn from the same statistic that 47% of Americans who don’t pay income taxes.  After seeing the newly released video, it was pointed out that many of that 47% that don’t pay income taxes include children, active military and many of the elderly.  Still, this doesn’t quite make clear why these people won’t vote for Mitt Romney in 2012.  To represent this 47% that will not vote for Mitt Romney, an anonymous member of this 47% wrote the following editorial:

An Editorial on Willard Mitt Romney’s Assertions of the Masses

By Bryce Williamson

            While I understand that Mitt Romney made this statement without due elegance and with a clear intent of appeal towards the egos of a group of gentlemen of both great income and hubris, the statement was nonetheless disturbingly sincere.  Is this statement any less demeaning to people of our kind than the rest of this campaign?  Has Mitt Romney not already made abundantly clear that he holds those of low income and those of dependency on the state in an extremely low regard?  In my humble opinion, he has done just that.  In fact he, nay, he and his party have made this their cadence, their theme of economic theory.  They say that those who make the least deserve their state.  They say that only those with a certain degree of wealth, social status or political clout have truly worked hard.  Yet is this truly the case?  Is this not a very after-the-fact assessment, thus a corrupted one?  The very fact that the poor and the elderly, and all those who look to the government for assistance, are still alive and functioning parts of our economy and political system are a testament to our worth.  If we are idlers as Romney claimed, would we not all be starving, quite literally, to death?  It is but a simple political reality that Romney and the Grand Old Party deny.  They are loftily out of touch with the populace.  It is not we who are too weak; it is they who are too strong.  It is not we who are self-pitying; it is they who are too arrogant.  It is not we who are too dependent.  It is they who are too powerful. 

That and I’m eight years old.  Kids don’t pay taxes.  Or vote.