Interesting information from The Atlantic:
It appears that the 47 percent figure represents all of those who pay no income tax, rather than the Democratic base. His problem is that those people are disproportionately in red states — that is, states that tend to vote Republican:
Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
Santorum says he and his allies are stupid (not among the smart and elite). Romney says people who get money from the government are moochers (lots of his rich friends and he, plus lots of people in states that will give him his electoral vote). So I guess that means that Santorum and Romney and their followers and friends are stupid and moochers. Now if only their followers and friends were smart enough to understand what Santorum and Romney were saying, they would reject Romney en masse. But they won’t, so I guess that means Santorum was right.
Yikes…This guy is scary stupid.
The cognitive dissonance in this country (especially the red states) is mind numbing. They keep voting for the people who make them poorer, less educated, and unhealthy and then call them lazy irresponsible moochers.
Much of it is the culture of buybull believing christianism that is so pervasive in these states as well. When you are divorced from reality and living in a fairy tale (creationism, the civil war wasn’t about slavery, the rapture is any day now, informercials, pyramid schemes, the “prosperity gospel”, prayer for miracles, buying lottery tickets and Noah’s Ark), its not a stretch to hear two perpendicular ideas and believe they are the same thing.
Irrational religion does not promote rational thought.