I could watch only about three minutes of this eight-minute video of interviewed Romney supporters at a Ohio rally. Ignorance on parade. It's appalling.
Still, I needed no more than three minutes; it's the same, compressed ignorance we've been watching for months. When asked what Romney's plan is to fix the economy or lower the deficit, his supporters haven't a clue. One would think they'd be too embarrassed to offer nothing but slack-jawed bewilderment to such questions, but that's all they've got.
Again, these Romneyites' vacant enthusiasm is sickeningly, depressingly familiar. I recall a PBS Newshour piece of several months past in which Floridian retirees were being asked about ObamaCare as a point of political contention. "I don't like it," said one elderly white woman of the healthcare package. Why? asked the interviewer. "I don't really know. I just don't like it," came her follow-up response.
Had a white, quarter-billionaire president passed some version of RomneyCare, I have the distinct feeling that that retired lady in Florida would have positively raved about it.
I watched and it depressed me for an hour afterward. I have to say the people I found the most disturbing were the most normal-looking trio, maybe a mother, father and adult daughter. The man goes on about how angry Obama is and the the older of the women goes on about how Obama blew his chance to unite, that he has done everything to divide us. Quiet racism and, for me, more upsetting than the real wackos going on about Muslims and socialism.
Posted by: You Don't Say | November 05, 2012 at 10:37 AM
You're a better man than I am. I could only hold my breath for one minute.
Posted by: Ted Frier | November 05, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Your last sentence does not need the "quarter-billionaire" qualifier to be accurate.
Posted by: japa21 | November 05, 2012 at 11:30 AM
If you listen patiently you will get to the lady who knows Obama was associated with Rev. Wright's church for twenty years and yet claims Obama is, without question, both a Muslim and an atheist as well as a communist. Of such sturdy building materials are democracies made.
Posted by: Peter G | November 05, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Oh c'mon guys, it gets a lot better deeper into it. One guy thinks Buddhists are stealing our religious liberty. These people are dumber than a box of rocks.
Posted by: ohollern | November 05, 2012 at 11:58 AM
The fact that they showed up to a Romney event is indicative of their lack of brains.
Posted by: SueMe | November 05, 2012 at 12:49 PM