High-Frequency Stock Market Trading is Impacting the Average Investor Mitt Romney is still dealing with the fallout from that now-infamous fundraiser in May in which he tried out his best Thurston Howell imitation in front of a crowd of rich people. He's been clobbered for his performance by Democrats and late-night talk show hosts, of course. Conservatives, however, seem split about the remarks. Some are not only rallying around Romney in his time of need, but also defending the remarks themselves. "Romney sounded remarkably like . . . a real conservative," wrote Michael Walsh of National Review. He ought to own it. On Fox News, Bill O'Reilly agreed: "If I'm Governor Romney, I run with this all day long." But others have harshly criticized Romney - and not just because it's politically unwise to seemingly write off half the electorate. In fact, numerous conservatives have been arguing that Romney's remarks implicitly reject one of the fundamental tenets of the conservative agenda: that carefully targeted tax breaks and deductions can work economic and social miracles, a favorite claim of Republicans from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush.