Romney's got some "old hands" on his election team that badly need to be tossed out a window. I'm not wonk enough, believe it or not, to be able to name names, but this was a problem in the McCain-Palin campaign, too.

And people are ignoring an important point: Romney wasn't right about the voting habits of the group he's talking about, but he's right about the rest.

This country has far too many of its citizens dependent on the taxpayer for one or more of its needs. I showed some numbers elsewhere. The 50 percent mark is being approached on several social spending fronts, and in entitlements for the elderly, demographics alone is killing us.

This has nothing to do with being nice, or arrogant or generous, or greedy, or "love for the needy" or any of the other simpleminded analyses.

There is a raw mathematical limit to how many people in a country can live off the taxpayer. We may already have passed it. Europe certainly has. In a democratically-elected government, there's a turning point where the redistribution becomes a positive feedback system. We may have already reached that, too.

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."

- Author unknown