Thanks. I’m putting you on ignore until that jingle is out of my head. I look forward to your comments on the 2016 elections.
Are the Obama campaign/PACs still running ads featuring the comments? Have they been updated with the ‘meant it’ / ‘inelegant’ / ‘wrong’ statements?
Romney has taken more positions than the Kama Sutra. It’s like watching a chameleon on a plaid couch.
He pretends to be wrong because he got caught, just like he pretends pretty much everything else he says. Politics aside, Mitt Romney seems like a shitty human being with his pathological lying (supposedly a lot of republican candidates in 2008 really didn’t like the guy on a visceral level). At least the dems tossed John Edwards aside when his true colors came out.
Low information voters will determine this election, so that could be good. The 90% of the country who understand their own beliefs and understand the beliefs of the two parties and candidates are probably pretty set. It is the 10% who don’t know what they themselves believe and don’t know what politicians believe who will determine the outcome. Which sadly works in Romneys favor in the debate because he came across as aggressive and confident, despite having no policy substance (people who are undecided probably don’t care about policy. If they did I doubt they’d be undecided).
47% of households owe no Federal income tax. if they do withhold taxes it is refunded when they file. This could be because they have little or no income, or because they have lots of deductions. They pay SS tax if they earn wages of course, and may pay gas taxes, sales tax, property tax, etc., but those don’t count apparently. In the alternate conservative universe you can count SS benefits as part of govt expenditures but it’s OK to ignore payroll taxes when you dismiss the 47% as moochers.
Now of course it would be different if they were wealthy people who used tax loopholes to pay no taxes, then they would be “job creators”. It’s a sin to not pay income tax just because you have no income however.
At a press conference on Sep 17 when the 47% tape first broke, Mittens said, “It’s not elegantly stated … but it’s a message which I’m going to carry.” Now Mittens says he was “completely wrong” on the 47%.
Gee Mittens, I am confused. Why didn’t you say you were wrong on Sep 17?
When you’re installing a new version of your cognitive software, it can take a while to reboot. Also, his empathy chip was trying to hide.
Forty seven percent of this country sucks teeeeeeat!
I tend to believe prepared remarks made in a private setting over prepared remarks made on the Sean Hannity show.
He was for his statement before he was against it.
Mitt Romney: Joe Isuzu with prep school polish.
That was my theory. Obama’s team had to have known that Romney’s team would already have written a clever response if it came up during the debate. Ignoring the 47% comments during the debate defused Romney’s response.
Basically, Romney was hoping that Obama would make a rookie mistake. Welcome to the big leagues, junior.
This would also explain the painful look on Obama’s face throughout the debate; he was trying to hold off bring up the 47% remark; he was doing a rope a dope move. Now that Mitt has flip flopped on his private statement to his buddies and told the world that he didn’t really mean it the President can pounce all over him. Between Mitt’s serving up a sweet waffle on the 47% comment and his dismissal of the good job report you can expect a totally different Obama in the next debate.
I listened to 5 minutes of Hannity and AM radio the day the tape came out, and their position was “it’s about time somebody called out those leeches! I hope he runs on this statement!” It’s funny that he went on Hannity to take it back, and I am curious how Hannity treated it. I’m betting his interview went more along the lines of “well gosh of course you didn’t mean it, Mitt! Evil liberal media conspiracy is out to get you!” rather than arguing his own pov about the “lazy half of the country” (quoted cuz I know I’ve heard Hannity put it that way before, even though he is talking about a huge amount of his listeners and R voters).
I read an article the day the tape came out that basically said, “the ‘mis-statements’, the bullying story, Bain’s behavior, and so on aren’t random things… they paint a picture of who Mitt really is.” I’d say the private statement is far better evidence than the Romney Apology Tour.
But you could say the same thing for every issue out there. And why not make him walk back his comments in such a public forum? I just don’t see how not mentioning the 47% would work to Obama’s advantage. Just what kind of clever response could Romney have come up with?
I don’t know. But let me ask you this- do you honestly think that Romney wouldn’t have had a canned response ready to go? By asking about the 47% quote, Obama would’ve been giving Romney a convenient talking point, one designed to do as much damage as possible. If Obama had brought it up, he would’ve been walking right into Romney’s trap.
Everyone who cares knows what he said, and what he meant. Obama bringing it up in a debate allows him to hand wave it away to the few not paying attention, which is the target market for the debate in the first place.
If Romney was prepared for anything in this debate it was turning incontrovertibly disgusting bile for half of all Americans into a general dismissal of the hard-left in particular.
Read the article. His response was:
“Well, clearly in a campaign, with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you’re going to say something that doesn’t come out right, In this case, I said something that’s just completely wrong. I absolutely believe, however, that my life has shown that I care about 100% and that’s been demonstrated throughout my life. And this whole campaign is about the 100%.”
There is is…word for word…the statement he didn’t get to make in the debate, but had probably rehearsed over and over and over again, with a very sincere smile.
Jeez, I could use a sincere smile! Where did he buy his?
So, prolly shouldn’t have stuck by those ‘completely wrong’ words in multiple press releases for weeks after that video aired.