GOP 2016ers Push For New Focus On Poverty After Romney Disaster | Talking Points Memo

In a dinner with wealthy fundraisers, Mitt Romney dismissed 47 percent of voters as hopeless “victims” who would never accept personal responsibility, let alone a Republican president. The next crop of presidential hopefuls is determined to not make the same mistake.Two of the GOP’s best and brightest offered their most detailed policy speeches since the election at the Jack Kemp Foundation awards dinner on Tuesday. And the unmistakable theme was that Romney’s patrician philosophy had to go.


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