It Takes One to Know One

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/opinion/kristof-it-takes-one-to-know-one.html

September 19, 2012
It Takes One to Know One
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

... The furor also reflects the central political reality today: the Republican Party has moved far, far to the right so that, on some issues, it veers into extremist territory....

For me, the saddest polls are those about facts. A Dartmouth poll this year found that Republicans believe, by a ratio of more than 3 to 1, that “Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the United States invaded in 2003.” The same poll found that Republicans believe, almost by a 3-to-1 ratio, that President Obama was born in another country. Today’s Republicans seem disproportionately untethered to reality.

Another illustration of radicalizing self-delusion comes when the son of a governor and corporate chief executive says that “everything that Ann and I have, we earned the old-fashioned way, and that’s by hard work.”

Romney has proved himself right: We manifestly do have a problem with people who see themselves as victims even as they benefit from loopholes in the tax code. One is running for president.

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1. well said mr kristof.

romney and his ilk are are the ones who feel entitled. entitled to our labor, entitled to our ingenuity and creativity, entitled to make money off investments not work, entitled to our pensions and entitled to our social security.
and we're called parasites for wanting food.