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2012 Mitt Romney on His 47% Video: "I said something just completely wrong"
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:05 AM
Mitt Romney, who previously embraced his secretly recorded statements on 47% of America being moochers, now says that he got it wrong. The reason he got it wrong? He makes an awful lot of speeches, and apparently, you just wind up saying something that runs completely against what you believe when you have to make a lot of speeches. Here's video:
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Don't worry, over the next five weeks he'll reaffirm his 47% comments, then denounce them again several more times.
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He said something completely wrong, for 45 minutes. Then he said something else completely wrong when he reaffirmed his original statement, as recently as 17 days ago.
Gee, Mr. Romney, what else are you suddenly going to notice you are completely wrong about?
Gee, Mr. Romney, what else are you suddenly going to notice you are completely wrong about?
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The Obama ads using that clip must be having an effect if he's now willing to admit that he told a lie.
He never admits that his campaign lies.
He never admits that his campaign lies.
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I loathe that car salesman as much as anyone, but his intent was most likely to discuss the 47% of voters who support democrats, and link them and democrats to those beliefs that all the donors never have to deal with in their cloistered, pampered lives.
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What Romney has tried to say is that he told the big money donors what they wanted to hear then so that they'd give him big money (remember, this was a $50,000/plate fundraiser), and now he's just telling Fox what they want to hear so the news media will stop reporting on what he actually, y'know, said.
So was he lying to the 1% back then, lying to the 1% now, lying to everybody now, or what?
The answer, in my opinion: He's lying to everybody all the time about everything. He's like that master speaker from the 80s, well-known for saying what people wanted to hear. No, not Ronald Reagan, Joe Isuzu. Young whippersnappers should Google him on their intertubes. Here's a YouTubey you can watch.
So was he lying to the 1% back then, lying to the 1% now, lying to everybody now, or what?
The answer, in my opinion: He's lying to everybody all the time about everything. He's like that master speaker from the 80s, well-known for saying what people wanted to hear. No, not Ronald Reagan, Joe Isuzu. Young whippersnappers should Google him on their intertubes. Here's a YouTubey you can watch.
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And yet it was one of very few times in Romney's career that he actually sounded sincere.
@9,
He was specifically referencing the right-wing talking point that 47 percent of Americans don't pay taxes. At best, the Democratic base makes up 40 percent of the country, with only maybe half that number calling themselves "liberal".
@9,
He was specifically referencing the right-wing talking point that 47 percent of Americans don't pay taxes. At best, the Democratic base makes up 40 percent of the country, with only maybe half that number calling themselves "liberal".
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Apparently, bishops in the Mormon faith can lie without repercussions. As long as they've got their super underwear on, they're protected.
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So first he doubled down on Cavuto's show right after the video was released, and now he's admitting that he got it wrong?
Why is he coming out now and admitting the obvious? Because polls show that his 47% comments hurt him?
This man is such a flip flopper that he makes my head spin. Etch-A-Sketch, indeed.
Why is he coming out now and admitting the obvious? Because polls show that his 47% comments hurt him?
This man is such a flip flopper that he makes my head spin. Etch-A-Sketch, indeed.
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The geeks have to stop it with the Etch-A-Sketch stuff. Most people don't even know what an Etch-A-Sketch is, much less follow the whole talking point.
#5, even if that was true, I'd need some serious magic to make it happen with this crowd. And no, it's not my point. My point is to ask when the fuck the Democratic Party and its office holders and candidates will get it through their thick fucking skulls that the Republicans play hardball.
You don't sing "Kumbaya" to a gang of thugs coming at you with machetes. Or even to one thug in a suit. And when the going gets tough, the tough don't go windsurfing like Kerry did in 2008.
Obama, will you quit trying to be Bill Cosby's "Cliff Huxtable" character?
#5, even if that was true, I'd need some serious magic to make it happen with this crowd. And no, it's not my point. My point is to ask when the fuck the Democratic Party and its office holders and candidates will get it through their thick fucking skulls that the Republicans play hardball.
You don't sing "Kumbaya" to a gang of thugs coming at you with machetes. Or even to one thug in a suit. And when the going gets tough, the tough don't go windsurfing like Kerry did in 2008.
Obama, will you quit trying to be Bill Cosby's "Cliff Huxtable" character?
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