Republicans poisoned gift to Obama

Barack Obama has been handed a gift.
It's not a gift he really deserved, given how he's governed during his first term. But it's a gift the American people deserve - the gift of truth.
When Mitt Romney told a group of über-wealthy donors that his "job isn't to worry about" the half of
America he claims is on the dole, stealing the hard earned money of the rich, he provided the clearest imaginable proof to Americans of just who the Republican nominee and his party represent. No amount of corporate-funded Tea Party populist spin will be able to scrub the smell of class warfare, off the one per cent conspiring against everyone else, clean from his campaign.
Sure, Tea Party diehards and the wealthy will stick with their candidate regardless of how callous he's revealed to be. But all those over-burdened, under-paid, socially conservative yet essentially tolerant soccer moms and dads - the majority of whom are in fact part of the so-called "47 per cent" of the country that requires help from the government to get by - will not take too kindly to these remarks.
They will add the rank insensitivity and even class hatred that literally echo from them to his unwillingness to release his own tax returns (Obama supporters pay no tax? What about Romney?) and the knowledge of his Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island tax havens. They'll combine these with his - and worse, Paul Ryan's - policies on women's reproductive freedoms, and a host of other issues such as climate change, healthcare and tax relief for the middle class, where official Republican orthodoxy constitutes a threat to the well-being of the majority of Americans.
And the majority of them will decide that whatever Obama's failures, he's at least trying to have their interests at heart. Bill Clinton's argument at the Democratic Convention in Charlotte suddenly reads less like a brilliant stump speech and more like a statement of fact: the Republicans' only goal is to make the rich richer and anyone who interferes with that goal is the moral equivalent of the proverbial welfare queen.
Whatever you want to say about Obama, by Romney's own admission most Americans think he's at least trying to clean up the mess that Republicans left him.