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Romney's Redistribution Magic Trick Is Nothing New
By Charles P. Pierce

It's a common word. One you find around the house every day. Today's secret word is: "redistribute." All together now: "RE-dis-tri-bute." Very good, class. Sean will now pass out cookies.

You really have to admire the way Willard Romney has so completely become comfortable within the hive mind. He gets beaten like a drum for dismissing half the country he's allegedly asking to vote for him — including the old, the lame, the blind, the crippled, and everyone who got that way during a war — on a tape from only last May. So, when some enterprising citizen journalists dig up and barber a 14-year-old quote from the president, Willard not only makes it his own, but he attaches it to a previously barbered quote that he and his party played with like dogs with a rubber bone throughout what is reckoned to be the most utterly truthless political convention of the modern era. And he does so full in the hope that the national media by and large will declare two-tie, all-tie, thereby getting him past the fact that he sounded like Scrooge before the spirits came to call.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/mitt-romney-redistribution-12892998