The overwhelming majority of voters who back President Barack Obama do so because they are "dependent on government" and "believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing," Mitt Romney told a closed-door gathering of about 30 major donors earlier this year, according to video of the event that has surfaced on the Internet. ***Wow. The attack ads practically write themselves. For example, does Mitt consider permanently disabled Iraq War veterans -- or retirees living in Florida -- as part of this freeloading group of "victims" that he despises so much? As Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said yesterday: "It’s hard to serve as president for all Americans when you’ve disdainfully written off half the nation."
"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."
I think the only issue now is how big of an effect this complete collapse of Romney's Campaign will have downstream. Any chance of Republicans gaining control of the Senate has probably evaporated, though, so expect to see the right-winged SuperPacs start investing very heavily in the campaigns of vulnerable GOP House candidates.
Republicans will be wondering aloud for decades how they let a prick like Mitt Romney win the 2012 GOP nomination. The really hilarious part of all this is that folks like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Rick Santorum will no doubt be praising Romney later today for talking the way he did on the tape.
One thing is for certain: Republicans will no longer be able to complain after Obama's reelection that Mitt was simply "too moderate" to win. The tape clearly demonstrates that their nominee is in fact the severely conservative person he claims to be.
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This was freakin' awesome, glad you posted it as I was moments away from mailing it to you as a suggestion for your next post ; )
Funny thing is, he's right! And, thank God, he's going to be the next President. It's great to hear him say what's on his mind. Now run along... gubmint tit suckers.
Sorry Anonymous, but I think this will be the final straw for a lot of undecided voters. He'll probably even lose folks who were planning on voting for him prior to this. To use a toilet analogy, Romney's campaign was already in the shitter, and this latest gaffe can be best described as the flushing of said shitter.
Mitt can certainly kiss Florida goodbye. There are a lot of people down there who have worked all their lives and now depend on Social Secuity and Medicare, and the Republican nominee for president basically called all of those folks "moochers." Christ, Romney actually said: "My job is is not to worry about those people."
It's over, Man. Sorry. Better luck in 2016.
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