Romney Accused of Adopting “Occupy Wall Street Language” Ben Shapiro at Big Government’s got a problem with Mitt Romney’s words to an Arizona audience on the issue of taxes, middle Americans and the “top 1%.” Why the quotation marks? Ask Shapiro: Conservatives like politicians who seem down-home. But they don’t like Huey Long redistribution of wealth fanatics, or even a hint of such fanaticism. Romney’s language here is devastatingly anti-conservative: the “top 1%,” “fair share,” “high income folks,” etc. He’s cribbing straight from the Obama playbook. Is even the mention of a top 1%, or of high income Americans, really “devastatingly anti-conservative”? They’re just a statistical reality of the US income distribution, after all. But for Shaprio this rhetoric is “Occupy Wall Street language.”Then again, without the Occupy movement perhaps there’d be nobody Googling “top 1%” to begin with. Is that what Shapiro is getting at?
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Romney Accused of Adopting “Occupy Wall Street Language”

Ben Shapiro at Big Government’s got a problem with Mitt Romney’s words to an Arizona audience on the issue of taxes, middle Americans and the “top 1%.” Why the quotation marks? Ask Shapiro:

Conservatives like politicians who seem down-home. But they don’t like Huey Long redistribution of wealth fanatics, or even a hint of such fanaticism. Romney’s language here is devastatingly anti-conservative: the “top 1%,” “fair share,” “high income folks,” etc. He’s cribbing straight from the Obama playbook.
Is even the mention of a top 1%, or of high income Americans, really “devastatingly anti-conservative”? They’re just a statistical reality of the US income distribution, after all. But for Shaprio this rhetoric is “Occupy Wall Street language.”Then again, without the Occupy movement perhaps there’d be nobody Googling “top 1%” to begin with. Is that what Shapiro is getting at?

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