Conservatives need to believe the poor are lazy, or crooked...
to justify why they don't want to increase their taxes (or their business practices) to do something about it.
But when they hit a hard patch and get knocked down a rung or two in the income ladder they are always ready to blame it on the "socialists", or the Mexicans, or the blacks. Its never their fault.
That lady broke my heart, but I doubt she moved one Republican's heart in that audience.