Romney Tells Wealthy Donors That 47% Of Americans Are Lazy Moochers

[PoliticalTiger]

It’s only September, but Mitt Romney has already written off almost half the country’s voters. A hidden-camera recording obtained by Mother Jones captures Romney at a private fundraiser telling donors that, “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.” Watch it:




http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/0...ow-income/

[Born_A_Truman]

FUCK HIM!

[Born_A_Truman]

Josh Cook ‏@Josh_OFA
"It’s hard to serve as president for all Americans when you’ve disdainfully written off half the nation." - @Messina2012

My comment ^^ was short and not so sweet, but this is what I really meant.

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Not really. I meant what I said.

[Treestar]

That is such a stupid straw man of theirs. No one on welfare wants to stay on it, no one thinks the government should support them, and 47% are not on welfare. Assholes are just trying to get poor or lower middle class people to vote for them.

Entitled to health care! He thinks people who can't afford it aren't "entitled" to it. Well his family money made sure he was "entitled" to it.

He sounds very hateful in that clip.

He's saying he's going for the independents, when I had gotten the idea from what I'd been reading that he'd given up on that and he's going for getting out the base.

[azmouse]

"It's shocking that a candidate for President of the United States would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the American people view themselves as 'victims,' entitled to handouts, and are unwilling to take 'personal responsibility' for their lives," Jim Messina, Obama for America Campaign Manager, said in a statement released late Monday afternoon. "It's hard to serve as president for all Americans when you've disdainfully written off half the nation."


Proud member of the 47% who will absolutely vote for Obama here!

[pappy]

I have known many hard working men and women who don't pay any income tax. There are so many reasons for that I cannot list them all but none of them were lazy or had money stashed away in the Caymen Islands.

Right now my former governor Ted Strickland is lambasting him saying that Romney has disqualified himself for the Presidency.

[Born_A_Truman]

Military families are "depend" on the government. Hope they know they are "written off" too.

[PoliticalTiger]

(09-17-2012 06:14 PM)Born_A_Truman Wrote:  Military families are "depend" on the government. Hope they know they are "written off" too.

Military families, children, the poor, seniors, the disabled....Romney has basically called them all scum! As you said earlier, and I agree, FUCK HIM!

[pappy]

(09-17-2012 06:25 PM)PoliticalTiger Wrote:  

(09-17-2012 06:14 PM)Born_A_Truman Wrote:  Military families are "depend" on the government. Hope they know they are "written off" too.

Military families, children, the poor, seniors, the disabled....Romney has basically called them all scum! As you said earlier, and I agree, FUCK HIM!

I am SCUM hear me roar
In numbers too great to ignore

[There Is No Spoon]

Can you believe people who live in the richest country in the world think they are entitled to FOOD?

I don't even know how to respond to such an inhumane statement by a little richie-rich snot-face. Why would any caring religious person in this country vote for such a craven political party?

[janedrake]

Question for Romney: Who feels more entitled - CEOs whose failures have to be rescued by taxpayers and who get golden parachutes of tens of millions of dollars - or the guy who's pulling double shifts at Walmart and still isn't making enough to feed his family, so he has to apply for food stamps.

Romney continues to be a disgrace.

[Born_A_Truman]

Willard Mitty & Ann 11/7/12

[jaxx]

Rotten Willard gets outed again. I hope he realizes that most of those he writes off are white....his people. This is about as nasty as it gets against the American people. Rich bastard who wouldn't know poverty unless his horse got sick.

[jaxx]

Romney stands by his remarks in leaked video
Posted by Philip Rucker on September 17, 2012 at 10:13 pm

“It’s not elegantly stated…I’m speaking off the cuff in response to a question,” Romney told reporters Monday night.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/elec...ked-video/

We need to post the video from Lawrence as soon as it's up.....he just said Willard gave part of his concession speech with his answers in his little presser.

[janedrake]

(09-17-2012 08:31 PM)jaxx Wrote:  Romney stands by his remarks in leaked video
Posted by Philip Rucker on September 17, 2012 at 10:13 pm

“It’s not elegantly stated…I’m speaking off the cuff in response to a question,” Romney told reporters Monday night.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/elec...ked-video/

We need to post the video from Lawrence as soon as it's up.....he just said Willard gave part of his concession speech with his answers in his little presser.

That's no excuse, Romney. Do you understand that the President has to daily give "off-the-cuff" remarks?

My favorite part of the "walkback" - Romney's hair was ruffled and he looked genuinely anxious.

[There Is No Spoon]

(09-17-2012 08:51 PM)janedrake Wrote:  ...

My favorite part of the "walkback" - Romney's hair was ruffled and he looked genuinely anxious.

I'm so cynical that my first thought was that one of his staff carefully "messed up" his hair to make him look more "genuine".

[pappy]

Oh sorry that was not elegantly stated.

[janedrake]

Yeah, I hear you, TINS - but look at the eyes -- the con-man-fast-talkin' -- Romney is a lousy actor -- my money's on he truly didn't know this was coming.

[jaxx]

[Born_A_Truman]

Future fundraising attendees will be strip-searched.

He looked like he was sweating bullets big time.

[Brewman_Jax]

I see that he's using the "personal responsibility" hammer to beat up on "those people", as usual.

What's wrong, Willard? Aren't the people that actually pay taxes entitled to the benefits of those taxes? Or is it that only the top 1% are entitled to anything only because they're rich?

[Born_A_Truman]

[NJMaverick]

this is the entire GOP

[pappy]

From TPM

Quote:Conservative commentator Mary Matalin hailed Mitt Romney's "47 percent" line on CNN as good news for Republicans.

"There are makers and takers, there are producers and there are parasites," she said. "Americans can distinguish between those who have produced and paid in through no fault of their own and because of Obama's horrible polcies who cannot get a job or are underemployed. That's what the campaign is about."

[janedrake]

But Mitt Romney stashing his cash overseas, stuffing $100M into an IRA, taking a medical deduction on a horse, and paying half the typical middle-class tax rate on his hundreds of millions of dollars is not being a "parasite"?

Plus, "Obama's policies"are the only reason the country is recovering in the first place. Matalin is RIDICULOUS.