You're one bitter MF if this is what the argument is now.
I respectfully disagree (but please continue exporting bitterness and bravado in equal parts. I know it makes you feel better.).
This thread is instructive for several reasons:
1) It shows how easily rebuttable this canard is that Romney is a selfish, out of touch type. Frankly, it frustrates me that he's allowed himself to be so easily flanked by this issue. All he has to do is say that a) I pay may fair share of taxes under the law as written; b) the law gives me the option of making additional contributions to worthy of the support of people who have a generous heart and spirit, c) I choose to exercise that option at both a far greater percentage and whole dollar amounts than both of my opponents. I would then wonder aloud what Joe Biden did with the other 98.5% of his income, since he, unlike many of the middle class families he claims to care about who pay his salary and still donate in higher percentages, lives in a free housing provided at taxpayer expense.
2) Since you guys have gone ahead and declared victory, we have ample time on our hands now to actually take a serious look at your candidates as people. For all the hue, cry and acres upon acres of moral high ground "seized", you all pin your hopes in part to a selfish guy who makes racial jokes. What you claim to detest in conservative candidates (and skewer at every oppportunity when presented the chance....and often when not), Biden lives and breathes. George Allen makes an inappropriate comment at a campaign stop, and of course, it's a career ender for him. But when a Democrat's telling Slurpee jokes and making slavery references, you all make him Vice President. Joe Biden would be much safer if he limited himself to stolen material. For all of the self-congratulatory "this election is over, the Republican Party is dead" talk, you guys need to quit looking at polls and start looking in the mirror.
3) The Romney campaign is missing an opportunity: Not only to demonstrate glaring hypocrisy, but also to contrast visions for how to do good for others. Mitt and Ann Romney---the people you guys are working so hard to demonize---will a) pay more taxes this year and b) make more charitable contributions this year, than most of the people who post on these Boards will in their entire lifetimes.
The Romneys have the option to choose between a) further supporting a bloated, unaccountable, irresponsible behemoth (with the not unsubstantial operating costs of supporting the lifestyles of hundreds of thousands of career government workers with job security, pay and benefits they could never earn on their own in the marketplace....seriously, name everyone you know working right now that has an old-fashioned, poorly-thought-out, unsustainable pension. Can you think of anyone in the private sector that does?), or b) choosing to support organizations who exist---not to provide ways of lives for their workers---but primarily to perform charitable missions (and without the entitlement to a brand-new budget next fiscal year). If you believe---as you should---that nothing is immortal as a government program---doesn't it make sense to support organizations that have to "earn" their operating budgets and rely heavily on donated time, rather than yet another dinosaur government program stuffed full of lawyers, bureaucrats and full-benefit four day work weeks? At what point do some of us put aside the tenents of their Orthodox Statist Faith and start looking at how to solve problems with a fresh set of eyes? If you could choose between donating a $1,000.00 to a particularly legal defense fund to support a cause you felt was worthy and giving that same $1,000.00 to the U.S. Department of Justice (the one that authored the EIT memos you guys kept having litters of kittens over), wouldn't you value the power of your choice? Wouldn't you at least want the option? If so, then quit condemning the Romneys for doing what a lot of other people would do if they had the choice. Your ire is far better suited for Joe and Jill Biden (THEY are The 1.5%).
