The Romney Cluelessness

After the release of the Romney tape it would  not be a surprise that the left was unhappy.  But conservatives are unhappy too. 

• TAC Goes After Romney On The 47%
• Conservatives Agree: Romney's Wrong
• Thurston Howell Romney

But even Ross Douthat is upset, Our Revolting Elites:

Were Mitt Romney’s now-famous comments at a fundraising dinner in May — in which he appeared to write off 47 percent of Americans as self-pitying freeloaders with no self-respect — a window into the elusive “real Romney” and proof that his moderate-seeming façade has always been a sham?
Who could possibly know? Romney has built his career, in business and in politics, on telling people what they want to hear in order to persuade them to let him manage their affairs. This is a man who tried to get to the left of Ted Kennedy in their 1994 Senate race and to the right of Rick Perry in 2012. The idea that he would reveal his true political beliefs to a group of people he’s trying to flatter, cajole and spook into giving him more money may be appealing to his critics, but it isn’t necessarily convincing.
What these comments definitely tell us, though, is what Mitt Romney, master consultant, feels his “clients” in the Republican donor base want to be told about this election and what will inspire them to dig deep and give freely to his cause. Assuming those instincts are correct, his comments help illuminate the way many well-off Americans feel about their less-fortunate fellow countrymen – and it isn’t a pretty thing to see.

 Some if not all of these people may agree with Romney but they also realize that being so blatantly plutocratic is not the way you win elections.   I'll assume that Ross is  sincere, he's not a bad person.  He is one of the real conservative who thinks a plutocracy is not a good idea.