Annette John-Hall: Romney's comments revealed the truth of what he believes
From the beginning, Mitt Romney scared me because of his troubling tendency to lie whenever it suited his political purposes. God forbid that a measly fact would get in the way of his privileged path to the presidency.
But after having a few days to digest the Republican nominee's most recent reprehensible comments, caught on tape at a $50,000-a-plate fund-raiser, I've concluded that it's not Romney's lies that would make him such a terrible president. It's his truths.
Ironically, even his truths are lies. Romney continues to stand by his definition of the 47 percent who pay no federal income tax and receive government benefits as "victims" who "believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, you name it."
Never mind that this is coming from a guy who believes he's entitled to tax havens in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. He's talking about your mother, who's on Social Security; your son, who's getting through college on a Pell Grant; or your nephew's wife, who received a government death benefit because her husband died defending our country in Afghanistan.
They're all riffraff, sucking the government dry.
"I'll never convince them [to] take personal responsibility and care for their lives," Romney says.
I mean, I'm used to politicians blaming the poor. But now they've decided the middle class is too lazy to worry about, too.
"Everybody who has a conscience would never stand on the side of those comments."
