Soledad O'Brien makes the case here with Bay Buchanan.
Reading from a new David Brooks column, Soledad put the question to Buchanan.
“The people who receive the disproportionate share of government spending are not big-government lovers. They are Republicans. They are senior citizens. They are white men with high school degrees. As Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution has noted, the people who have benefited from the entitlements explosion are middle-class workers, more so than the dependent poor.”
“So essentially, didn’t Mitt Romney in these leaked tapes bash his own voters?” O’Brien wondered. “Those are the people who are voting for Mitt Romney.”
Of course Buchanan tries to spin this into something it's not. She attempts repeatedly to turn the question the 47 Million Americans who are receiving food assistance and how that's a "National Scandal".
No, actually - the fact that Republicans have been blocking the President's Jobs Plan in exactly the manner they Plotted To Do when he was inaugurated, Is the National Scandal.
“Aren’t the people he’s bashing to these wealthy donors, these are Republicans, these are white men with high school diplomas?” O’Brien pressed. “These very people are the people who are going to vote for him and now you have a major problem. … He’s not talking — 47 percent of the nation is not on food stamps.”
No, they're not. They're on Medicare and Social Security which Romney will gut and eventually privatize. They're Vetarans serving active duty. Students Starving as they try and get an education. They're
people who work, but don't make enough money to hit the lower threshold to pay income taxes.
And Romney just told them all, He Doesn't Care About You.
Vyan
11:20 AM PT: Map of the Non-Payers - via comments.