Romney, Ryan Tapes Show Divide-And-Conquer Strategy

Paul Ryan was taped saying 30% of Americans are lazy moochers who yearn for a welfare state and dependency on Government.

Mitt Romney was more dismissive, saying the figure was 47%.

Both are fabricating numbers to foment resentment against the poor and the needy - - which in this weak economy means millions of middle-class Americans hurt by the Great Recession - - Romney and Ryan are aiming their nasty numbers at white working voters conditioned by years of George Wallace/Richard Nixon/Tea Party/Karl Rovian-divide-and-conquer southern strategies and racialized fear-mongering.

Newt Gingrich got the ball rolling in the primaries with his attacks on Barack Obama as "the food stamp president," and the Republican Romney-Ryan ticket is channeling it.