Every Friday until the end of the year, we're counting down the stupidest right-wing tweets of 2012. Next Friday, we'll post all the contenders so you can vote on the stupidest. So far, we've heard from Nooners, Eric Cantor and John Hawkins.

And today, the Anchor Baby.

It's arguable that Mitt Romney lost election the moment his now infamous remarks, in which he basically called half the country freeloaders and victims who want free stuff, went viral. Even most Republican pundits were appalled, and saw right away that serious damage had been done.

But to the True Believers like the Anchor Baby (and others) -- this was a clarifying moment, one to be embraced. Victory was surely around the corner -- calling half the country parasitic victims is electoral gold! As I wrote at the time,

It's almost as though Malkin and her ilk really believe that the GOP's path to victory is to win 140% of the wingnut vote.

Pretty much.

Memo to Republicans: please keep heeding Michelle Malkin's advice. Thanks!

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Earlier this week, Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan were both feted at the Jack Kemp Foundation, and at the banquet, both attempted to distance themselves from the Republican Party's favorite talking point of 2012 -- that the problem with this America is that the freeloading, moocher "takers" outnumber the noble, job-creating "makers."

Bobo, apparently really desperate to find any glimmer of hope these days, highlighted this passage from Rubio's speech.

As he was telling this story, Rubio motioned to some of the service staff at the Kemp dinner. They stopped to listen to him. “It all starts with our people,” Rubio continued. “In the kitchens of our hotels. In the landscaping crews that work in our neighborhoods. In the late-night janitorial shifts that clean our offices. There you will find the dreams America was built on. There you will find the promise of tomorrow. Their journey is our nation’s destiny. And if they can give their children what our parents gave us, the 21st-century America will be the single greatest nation that man has ever known.”

People at the dinner say that there was a hushed silence for a second as Rubio concluded with this refrain. Then a roaring ovation swelled and filled the room.

The Republican Party has a long way to go before it revives itself as a majority party. But that speech signifies a moment in that revival. And I would say the last month has marked a moment.

Yes, Rubio's failure to label the hotel wait staff a bunch of parasites in their presence is the new "Tear Down This Wall" speech.

But here's the funny part.

The wait staff at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel are union members. And Marco Rubio is one of the most anti-labor lawmakers in Congress.

He's said unions are un-American, sponsored the RAISE Act, which was an assault on collective bargaining and he's received a perfect 100%/A+ score from one of the leading union-busting organizations on the right.

The reality is, Rubio's wants to make it harder for these workers to give their children a better future. He and his party offer them absolutely nothing. Giving them a pat on the head and not calling them leeches hardly marks a new day for the GOP, no matter what Bobo says.

Even while Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio attempt to distance themselves from the 47%/Makers-Takers stuff right-wingers really believe but forgot not to say out loud, the reliably stupid John Hawkins tweets this beauty.

The funny part, of course, is that the red states Mitt Romney won are the freeloaders and moochers -- and the Obama blue states are the ones that pay for everything.

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I can't wait to see the right-wing ragegasm about this.

"I think throughout this campaign as well, we talked about my record in Massachusetts, don't forget -- I got everybody in my state insured," Romney told NBC's Ron Allen in an interview before his rally here tonight. "One hundred percent of the kids in our state had health insurance. I don't think there's anything that shows more empathy and care about the people of this country than that kind of record."

Wingers completely freaked out the last time the Romney campaign made the slightest approving nod to Romneycare -- and this is a full-throated endorsement from the candidate himself.

And since he's arguing that there's nothing that "shows more empathy and care about the people of this country" than extending health insurance to all of its citizens, Romney just gave tacit approval to ObamaCare.

Popcorn futures are going through the roof today.

Not only is half the country lazy, entitled victims -- they're retarded lazy, entitled victims. Wow, I guess wingnuts are going all in on their contempt for their fellow Americans.

Oh, and I'm looking forward to Sarah Palin attacking Coulter for using the r-word.

Remember when Republicans were actually good at politics? Seems like decades ago.

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The Romney campaign is obviously not coordinating its messaging too well with wingnut bloggers, because even though Willard has now totally backed off his "47%" diatribe -- the likes of the Anchor Baby keep insisting how awesome calling half the country lazy, entitled moochers was.

MALKIN: If you listened to what has been released, it's not clear that it was the full video, but he says preceding these comments that everybody has been publicizing, he talks specifically about the independents, the people who are not completely, uh, in the tank and in the uh, cult of Obama who can be swayed. And I think the kind of comments that he made are going to appeal to independents, the moderates that are left in this country, because they still have the same basic values that the Republican Party tried to showcase during the convention, and that Romney has been talking about and the media is ignoring: that we are having a choice here in November between an America of makers and America of takers.

Yeah, that's all wrong.

The secretly recorded video of Mitt Romney dissecting the American electorate at a high-priced fundraiser bolsters him among Republicans but makes almost a third of independents less likely to vote for him, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.

The survey, taken Tuesday, finds just over half of independents say the video won't make a difference in their vote. Those who say it will have an effect by 2-1, 29%-15%, say it makes them less likely rather than more likely to support the GOP presidential nominee.

Taking political advice from Michelle Malkin is like taking acting lessons from Carrot Top.

I've made the point many times before, but there's nothing "conservative" about the current crop of right-wingers in this country. They're radicals. They want to overturn, not just the Great Society, but the New Deal and the reforms of the Progressive Era. This is how you get Ben Shapiro accusing Republican presidents like Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush of harboring a "victim mentality."

It also explains why wingnuts are running around thinking they've caught Obama RED HANDED!!!!! when he said he approves of redistribution. All taxation takes money away from some people and gives it to others -- and we've had a progressive income tax in the United States since World War I.

That today's wingers believe that the very existence of the safety net is un-American and progressive taxation is tantamount communism shows you just how over the bend they've really gone.

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[H/t Heather]

Mark Steyn is one if the bigger non-American wankers Fox News employs. He may not get to vote, and he may not have to pay any American taxes, but he sure knows what poor Americans should have to do if they earn a meager ten grand a year:

STEYN: I think if you're gonna have an income tax, and if you earn more than, let's say ten thousand dollars a year, you ought to make a contribution to the federal treasury. 'Cause if you don't, then there's something wrong with the system. It's more redistributionist than Scandinavia!

For Steyn, I guess making ten grand is living high on the hog. But now that you mention it: Aren't conservatives against anyone paying any kind of tax? If so, then why doesn't he say they should not have to pay a penny?

And then there's Steyn's fright (and Neil Cavuto's too) at the very thought of living in a socialist nightmare like they have in Scandinavia. Oh, the horror. The horror.

This is as critical a election as we'll see in our lifetimes, and these heels only remind us why: When they natter on about their phony 47 percent who "don't pay taxes," they make clear that there's no room for the elderly and the poor and the needy and, most of all, the compassionate on their political boat.

For what it's worth, the minimum annual income level for paying federal taxes is about $16,000. Steyn wants to lower that to $10,000 -- and at the same time, hang on to those massive tax cuts for millionaires. Funny how that works.

Steyn: We have healthy people in their early fifties going on permanent social security disability because they’ve given up hope of finding employment. Is that America?

I'll let you guys dissect that bit of hackery.

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Remember all those right-wingers who sprang to Romney's defense after his "47%" video was leaked? He just threw them under the bus.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is disavowing his controversial remarks dismissing “the 47 percent” of Americans who don’t pay federal income taxes, saying in an interview Thursday night that the comments were “just completely wrong.”

Sucks for you, Michelle Malkin.

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And I think the kind of comments that he made are going to appeal to independents, the moderates that are left in this country, because they still have the same basic values that the Republican Party tried to showcase during the convention, and that Romney has been talking about and the media is ignoring: that we are having a choice here in November between an America of makers and America of takers.

And you, Joe Walsh.

Tea party-backed congressman Joe Walsh (R-IL), who is accused of failing to pay child support, recently said that Mitt Romney was right to insult 47 percent of Americans because “we have too many people in the wagon and not enough people pulling the wagon.”

And Bay Buchanan.

“What he was saying is the 47 percent is going to be voting – this is what it looks like – solid base of the president. Included in those people are people who are going to have a hard time reaching. There’s people who are dependent on government, some believe and feel they’re owed something by government and many of them don’t pay income tax, and my message doesn’t work for them. That’s all he was saying."

And Jim Geraghty.

Folks in the media are asking, “How could he say this?” Folks on the Right, who see a growing dependency mentality sucking away the nation’s drive, work ethic, and independence, are asking, “How could he say this only behind closed doors? “

As Erick Erickson wrote,

Conservatives Agree: Romney’s Right

Whoops.

This is what happens when you just reflexively defend everything your candidate says, no matter how offensive and stupid.

Keep it up, morans.

Heather has more.