It seems Mitt Rom­ney has no short­age of ways or days in which he puts his (webbed?) foot in his mouth. In today’s edi­tion, Mother Jones reports that he stated dur­ing a fundraiser that

There are 47 per­cent of the peo­ple who will vote for the pres­i­dent no mat­ter what. All right, there are 47 per­cent who are with him, who are depen­dent upon gov­ern­ment, who believe that they are vic­tims, who believe the gov­ern­ment has a respon­si­bil­ity to care for them, who believe that they are enti­tled to health care, to food, to hous­ing, to you-​​name-​​it. That that’s an enti­tle­ment. And the gov­ern­ment should give it to them. And they will vote for this pres­i­dent no mat­ter what…These are peo­ple who pay no income tax…[M]y job is not to worry about those peo­ple. I’ll never con­vince them they should take per­sonal respon­si­bil­ity and care for their lives.

Appar­ently, a platy­pus such as myself — who pays a sig­nif­i­cant amount in fed­eral income taxes every year and receives no direct pay­ments from the fed­eral gov­ern­ment, yet will vote for Pres­i­dent Obama — does not exist. I have to hand it to our local con­ser­v­a­tive anthro­pol­o­gist, fil­istro, who recently pointed out this meme in the comments.

The sad­dest part of this is how that state­ment wasn’t from Eric Erick­son, or Grover Norquist, or Michele Bach­mann. Those peo­ple are noto­ri­ous for mak­ing out­ra­geous state­ments. But none of them are on the bal­lot in Novem­ber, in no small part because of mak­ing those sorts of state­ments. Rom­neyis on the bal­lot. What does this say about him?

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