I suspect Romney did not speak the language of citizenship, because such words seem empty to him, and I suspect this to be the case with much of the Republican elite.

Romney Ceded the Language of Citizenship

by James Matthew Wilson

At the top, at least, the Obama campaign was premised on a clear vision of citizenship.  

As a matter of course, the President spoke words of good will toward his fellow Americans, promising that those who heard him were joining him in a great enterprise.  

He gestured toward our responsibility to our neighbors and our children, the duties of business to advance the common good through both their own creation of jobs, through their concern for their employees, and their contributions to those places and institutions we are supposed to hold in trust—schools, roads, hospitals, banks, the ozone layer, to name but a few.  

No one in our country would be abandoned, none left to bear the brunt of a literal or figurative hurricane all by himself. 

It was a beautiful picture.  

With what image of citizenship did Mitt Romney counter it?
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