And now Romney says Americans do need help from the government! Tell us what kind of help Mitt!
Pro-Obama Super PACs have zeroed in Mitt Romney's controversial secretly recorded remarks to donors, cutting and releasing a number of new ads now posted online and scheduled to run on television in a number of key swing states.
Weaving Romney's more damaging comments about the 47 percent of Americans he dismisses as hopelessly beholden to President Obama with images of "middle class" families and workers, the Priorities USA spot, "Doors," opens with a shot of the lavish Florida mansion that hosted the May 17 fundraiser.
"Behind these doors Mitt Romney calls half the American people 'dependent on government, who believe they are victims," the narrator intones. Then, cutting to an image of a more modest, suburban home, a warning is delivered: "Behind these doors, middle-class families struggle and Romney will make things even tougher."
Romney offered his own response to the criticism in the form of an op-ed piece in this morning's USA Today. In one passage he appears to back off his harsh characterization that 47 percent of the electorate don't pay income taxes and are drawing money from government entitlement programs.
"Under President Obama, we have a stagnant economy that fosters government dependency," he wrote. "My policies will create a growing economy that fosters upward mobility. Government has a role to play here. Right now, our nation's citizens do need help from government. But it is a very different kind of help than what President Obama wants to provide.