Presidential candidate Mitt Romney grabbed headlines on Monday when a series of undercover videos from a private fundraiser surfaced online.
Released from the magazine Mother Jones, the clips show Romney speaking to the group — reported to be about 30 individuals — at a Boca Raton home some times admittedly off the cuff, on topics such as his own campaign, the Middle East, his strategy in seeking to unseat the incumbent, and the clip that has caught more attention than any other: his views on his opponent's supporters.
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney says in one clip. "All right — there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing."
The Republican candidate's numbers come from a Tax Policy Center report, which stated in June 2011 that 46.4 percent of Americans paid no income tax.
Romney addressed the video Monday night, according to the Huffington Post, calling for the full, unedited video to be released. While he didn't deny the comments, he did say the comments were an indication of his campaign's message to draw voters in the middle — not those who will likely already be supporting Democratic President Barack Obama.
According to the New York Times' transcript from Romney's comments Monday night: "I recognize that among those that pay no tax, approximately 47 percent of Americans, I’m not likely to be highly successful with the message of lowering taxes."
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I dread to think what could happen if Romney is president. He was mocked by the Mayor of London who stood before thousands calling Romney's name and laughing at Romney's criticism of the Brit's ability to run the Olympics. Who asked Romney to comment? Next he went to Israel, where Netanyahu had little or nothing to say to Romney. Netanyahu sees Romney as an opportunist with no knowledge of Middle Eastern history and certainly no interest in Israel's future saying, "We just kick (the problem) down the road and hope it resolves itself", in the now famous video tapes. Worst of all are Romney's offenses against Americans who do not rise to the Country Club level who he has decided he will "serve". To hell with the rest of us, if you take his words literally. Romney, like Altschuler, is running to please his ego. Romney, like Altschuler, is singularly less qualified than the other candidate. Romney, like Altschuler, will serve the richie rich at the expense of the rest of us. Romney, like Altschuler, is not fit to serve.
America cannot afford a return to the Bush-Cheney policies that bankrupted American families. For every job Americans lost, Randy Altschuler profited by sending it to Pakistan. With that money, his ads are paid. His house is bought. His kids are fed. Now Randy wants to buy a seat in the House of Representatives. Americans say: NOT FOR SALE
true, re: NY. It has too many educated/well-traveled people (or welfare recipients according to cynics) to ever support the Republican party of today. Pls, Republicans, take the party back from the tea party.... in this cheapened era of Fox Noise programming. It's the party's fault Mitt is not being Mitt...they traded in a moderate governor for a loose canon presidential candidate. The party wisely chose Mitt over Gingrich and Santorum, but then made him take on all their qualities.
http://www.randomuseless.info/gasprice/gasprice.html I can't afford more Bush-Cheney shenanigans and "pay backs" to oil barons. What do Altschuler and Romney have up their sleeves? I don't trust them.
"You won't have Nixon to kick around any more", Tricky Dick said, waving his fingers with tears in his eyes. He turned out to be the biggest liar of them all. Runner up to Nixon is probably Altschuler, who can't open his mouth without lying about Tim Bishop. He'll move back to New Jersey after losing this election.
I can tell you this, there is a concerted effort on the part of the media to make mush for brain poison consumers such as yourself think that its over. There is very little evidence that it is working, except for a few partisan marks such as yourself!
But Romney did more than back down from those 47% remarks; he also softened his tone on health care, immigration, and gay rights....flip-flopping like the fish that he is. "Now and then the president says I’m the grandfather of Obamacare. I don’t think he meant that as a compliment, but I’ll take it,” he said, going on to praise the Massachusetts law. More flip-flop, more pandering. Romney also "clarified" his earlier remarks on self-deportation. "I said I'm not in favor of a deportation, a mass deportation effort rounding up 12 million people and kicking them out of the country," he said. "I believe people make their own choices as to whether they want to go home, and that's what I mean by self-deportation. God forgive Mitt...he's a bad liar! And he added this about gay marriage: “I would like to have the term marriage continue to be associated with a relationship between one man and one woman, and that certainly doesn’t prevent two people of the same gender living in a loving relationship together having gay domestic partnership, if you will.” Stay tuned..."As Mitt Turns" will be right back.
We know the campaign is exhausted from litigating every little thing with their conservative critics, especially since it believes it’s running a more ideologically conservative campaign than any Republican in a generation. Anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-immigration, pro-wealthy. But we can't separate the lies from reality. And that's what worries Americans. Ryan, branded the Biggest Fibber in Political History, has obviously gotten to Romney and they've sold themselves to the Devil in exchange for votes from wherever the Devil can make a deal. Will the religious sector vote for such men? If they do, the pedophiles of the Catholic Church will really look like Alter Boys by comparison. At this juncture, we can say that the GOP have thrown any semblance of truthfulness to the wind. But what seeds will grow from such cavalier behavior? With little time before Election Day, Mitt's latest words are not likely to sprout in a ground parched for honesty. America has had its fill of the Bush-Cheney School of Liars. Our cupboards are bare and so, apparently, are the bones of the GOP carcass of ethics.
I'd rather the devil I know than the devil I don't. Bush and Cheney are the exception.
Christienyc@yahoo.com Go Monica!!
But now, some are learning the hard way that just earning a degree isn’t a guarantee of a good paycheck -- or any paycheck at all – when the job market is so difficult. That’s leaving many Americans saddled with high student loan debts and frustrated by low job prospects. Americans, present and future generations, cannot be tricked into believing the promises from today's Republican candidates. This week alone, we've hear Mitt Romney contradict himself again and again simply to pander for votes. Perhaps the worst news is that Romney was caught on camera plotting against a poorer economic class of Americans in favor of a richer class of Americans. For heavens sake, how dastardly can Romney be? Do they need that many more billions of dollars? Republicans this year, as with the years when Bush and Cheney lead our nation into economic despair, have shown us their insatiable appetite for personal fortunes, greater wealth and control of America's riches. The victims? America's youth; the only future America can invest in...taken away by the Robber Barons of 2012....Altschuler, Romney and Ryan. Tim Bishop needs us and we need him! Tim's not plotting against us. I can't say that about the others.
Since you seem to be so confused by basic analogy, irony or statistics, I will attempt to translate in simple sentences. Below are the 3 points of mine you attempted to restate. 1. "As governor he got things done but he's turned his back on that man" ---> this means Mitt Romney had a decent track record as governor. He openly expressed moderate positions, and he worked across the aisle. 2. The way you restated my irony comment made no sense, so I'll just remind that participation in comment sections, blogs, etc is a form of inclusion in the media. We have our freedom of speech. Compelling information gains traction. Credible information will be passed along through the range of media channels. 3. ''Romney misapplies the 47% and confuses all sorts of groups that may or may not vote for him''. What, pray tell, does that mean? ---> you can't really need me to explain this at this point? The 47% includes those in the armed forces, on social security...many who might vote for Romney. He probably wanted a different stat like those on safety net programs like unemployment (on which people are required to pay income tax). So the comment was not only mean spirited, but it was sloppy. That dinner tape reveals so much more than the 47% that reveal how little he knows. Romney has devolved into a version of himself who is not worthy of the office which President Obama currently holds.
You are delusional, I apologize and am trying to turn over a new leaf because you are so pleasant. If you think my comments on a blog is akin to the mass media's ability to communicate and set the narrative for the day based on their particular agenda, I'm obviously not picking on someone my own size and will refrain from further contradiction of your statements. At the end of the day, I feel a lot better about what Romney says when he is in private than what Obama says when he is in private. That video of Romney can mean anything you want to you. That is the beauty of perspective. Now, I have to deal with Bob Fraser who thinks I live in a hole, with Hazel who thinks I'm an ignoramous who lives in a basement while throwing rocks at passerby, then with John something, there are two of them who think I'm a complete idiot, then over to Fred-n-Freeda aka East Hampton Retiree who says I am an ignorant liar. Its going to be a long night! I remember when dissent was patriotic. My hippy days!
Tim Bishop: Outsourcer http://libertyslifeline.com/2012/07/12/tim-bishop-youve-got-some-explaining-to-do/
http://news.yahoo.com/president-obama-falsely-claims-fast-furious-program-begun-154000510--abc-news-politics.html
― Alexis de Tocqueville “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville