Did Mitt Romney just blow the election?
Comments caught on video reveal that the GOP candidate thinks half of Americans are losers. This is an utter disaster for his campaign.
By Josh Barro
You can mark my prediction now: A secret recording from a closed-door Mitt Romney fundraiser, released Monday by David Corn at Mother Jones, has killed Mitt Romney's campaign for president.
On the tape, Romney explains that his electoral strategy involves writing off nearly half the country as unmoveable Obama voters. As Romney explains, 47 percent of Americans "believe that they are victims." He laments: "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
So what's the upshot? "My job is not to worry about those people," he says. He also notes, describing President Obama's base, "These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax."
This is an utter disaster for Romney.
Romney already has trouble relating to the public and convincing people he cares about them. Now, he's been caught on video saying that nearly half the country consists of hopeless losers.
Romney has been vigorously denying President Obama's claims that his tax plan would raise taxes on the middle class. Now, he's been caught on video suggesting that low- and middle-income Americans are undertaxed.
That one is especially problematic, given the speculation about what's on his unreleased pre-2010 tax returns.
Corn tells us there are more embarrassing moments on segments of the video he hasn't released yet. Romney jokes that he'd be more likely to win the election if he were Hispanic. He makes some awkward comments about whether he was born with a "silver spoon" in his mouth.
But those are survivable. The really disastrous thing is the clip about "victims," and the combination of contempt and pity that Romney shows for anyone who isn't going to vote for him.
Romney is the most opaque presidential nominee since Nixon, and people have been reduced to guessing what his true feelings are. This video provides an answer: He feels that you're a loser. It's not an answer that wins elections.
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The media has kissed Obama's feet all along. The media will win the election for Obama--he doesn't have to do a thing. We'll see how the next four years go with Obama in power--in the words of Nikita Khruschev, "Americans will not die by the hand of a nuclear disaster; they will spend themselves to death."
So, you agree that only liberals have the right to speak their minds. Well, you're wrong - I support Romney and HIS right to free speech - the same right given to the 47% of whom he spoke and hopefully, you and me ------- all I can say using my right to speak my mind is this: if the present President is re-elected, I won't just cry like I did in 2008, I'll take to my bed and call in sick for a week. At least.
Pull your capital, stop working (officially), get out to small towns/rural areas, and thereby cutoff the progressive bloodsuckers ability to screw you anymore. Life and civilization always goes on. Just in a more realistic and sustainable way.
So say the Honey Boo-Boo crowd. Let me give you some raw meat! George Bush is a crook and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law! Taken from Crawford and transported to the land where Valerie Plame had operatives who were murdered because he didn't like her husband TELLING THE TRUTH about no WMD's & making the WAR in IRAQ a false WAR - for all the soldiers who died or were maimed there HANG HIM HIGH, HANG HIM LOW!!
For the hard to undersatnd who caused it crowd THE MAN YOU VOTED IN WHO SNORTED coke & DRANK LIKE A fish out of water, who's daughter's gave Lindsey a run for her money and used religion like a kleenex to get LOBBYIST TO HELP PEOPLE LIKE U CONTINUE TO BE PEOPLE LIKE YOU!
You hypercritical bunch of BIGOTED COCONUTS NEED JESUS IN THE WORST WAY, but then again YOU'D (NO PROPBABLY TO IT!) MURDER HIM AGAIN - AFTER CALLING HIM A SLACKER!!!
Unless you all believe in the peyote picking principals of Mormanism - a cult up there with Scientology!! I am just saying things cause I can - U KNW LIKE YOU!!!!
85% of Bush Tax Cuts Went to Middle Class, Not the Rich
Bush tax cuts: $544.3 billion…The bulk of that cost - $463 billion - is for the extension of cuts for families making less than $250,000, including two years of relief for 2010 and 2011 for the middle class from the Alternative Minimum Tax.
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You libs are so clueless. There is nothing controversial about this, period. You twist it and take it out of context to fit your own hysteria. Obama would say exactly the same thing about the "other 47%" if he were talking to his top supporters. It would be the same if he were talking about blacks. 97% of blacks are going to vote for Obama, so Romney is not going to spend a lot of time and energy trying to change the vote of black people. Is it controversial to say that? Hell, no. It is called smart campaigning. He is saying that his campaign is targeted at the undecided 6-10%. DUH!!!! So is Obama's campaign.
Funny, this article doesn't want to talk about the utter contempt and disgust Obama showed for all businessmen and businesswomen in this country with his disastrous "you didn't build that" speech. If that speech didn't cost Obama the election (which it may well have), then this one didn't do it for Romney, either.
And the final point, the fact that OBama got elected at all in 2008 proves that this country is indeed full of about 47% losers, because they voted for that incompetent, arrogant socialist!
Figure it out, idiot liberals.
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