I sometimes have a hard time predicting what Republicans will do because I just don’t think like them. That’s why I didn’t expect Romney to respond to the release of his 47% Speech with a Recovery, Not Dependency advertising campaign. It’s just another way of calling a bunch of people freeloaders who can’t be convinced to take care of themselves and their lives. It’s a slightly less racially-charged version of Newt Gingrich’s “food stamp president” rhetoric. It never seems to occur to Republicans that the worst time to attack people on food stamps is when there are a lot of people on food stamps. Actually, though, I think these ads are probably targeted mainly to right-wing audiences rather than swing-voters. I think the idea is to show that he’s fighting with their preferred language and to remind them of their racial grievances so that they stay motivated. That’s just a guess, though. I mean, the Republicans think they can make Obama look weak on Libya and terrorism, which is a joke considering that he helped liberate Libya and killed bin-Laden. The Republicans think a five-year old video of Obama doing nothing particularly unusual will hurt him politically. They have a lot of delusions, even at the highest levels.