Romney's "47 Percent" Gaffe - Elegant Version

As only Stephen Colbert can do it:

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"47 Percent"

Nailing Willard's ermine hide to the wall:

47% Cartoon of the Day

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This time, the man overboard would appear to Admiral Willard Captain Mittens.

Writing in New York Magazine, Jonathan Chait nails it:

"....the video exposes an authentic Romney as a far more sinister character than I had imagined. Here is the sneering plutocrat, fully in thrall to a series of pernicious myths that are at the heart of the mania that has seized his party. He believes that market incomes in the United States are a perfect reflection of merit. Far from seeing his own privileged upbringing as the private-school educated son of an auto executive-turned-governor as an obvious refutation of that belief, Romney cites his own life, preposterously, as a confirmation of it."

Willard's Personal Lobbyist

Every time we turn around, we see a story that confirms how out of touch and elitist Rethuglican plutocrat Willard "Sketchy" Romney is. The latest howler is that Sketchy has retained a registered lobbyist to navigate permits and to facilitate construction of his planned 11,000 square foot oceanfront mansion in La Jolla, CA. The lobbyist has been paid over $21,000 since 2008 for his services. We're wondering if weird Willard also has a royal food taster on staff, or if he's hired someone to "clean him up" after using the toilet.

(UPATE: Low and behold, weird Willard's mansion also included plans for -- get this -- a car elevator. That's not "1 percent," that's "one tenth of one percent."

(photo: "My good man, you are of a brown hue. Are you available to do light gardening at my estate in California?")