I suspect that Mitt's comments will resonate favorably with many voters...
Not if we on this side let it.....
You know better than this, ken5050. Simply ludicrous to even remotely compare this to a “macaca” moment. =.=
Allen's big mistake was apologizing. He should have instead attacked the Post for making stuff up -- the second he apologized, he was toast.
No, this is a small-ball political issue. I think a lot of people will like the comment.
Elections are about fundamentals. The economy still sucks, and Obama now has foreign policy challenges.
Romney can still win.
The good news is that people too lazy to work are often too lazy to vote.....
47% is a number. Most of the Left don't even know what a number is.
This is EXACTLY right, and THE strategy. You don't play on the MSM's field according to their narrative, rules and "values." You stand by your [correct] statements and rub them in their face. Doing otherwise only strengthens the state-run Dem media, and makes you look weak - like a flip-flopper.
If he lets it become that moment, it could be. He has a golden opportunity (as Rush is explaining) and has in essence forced himself to step up his attack on the DNC machine, but IMO he better get on it. 0bamas’ latest speeches are by far the stupidest instances of projection yet, but this is a concept that is hard to explain to drones.
And even if this doesn't stick and Mitt refuses to apologize to the 47% welfare animals, the Puppetmaster-controlled Media will twist whatever words Mitt says next and try to make macaca out of them. Repeat as necessary until the damage proves fatal.
More like Romney’s “clinging to guns” moment.
I know it played favorable to me.
What he said should be obvious to everyone.
There are a lot of people hearing this 47% for the first time. The media carping on it means even more will hear it. And they’ll be stunned and angry, and wonder why they never heard this before.
Focus on 0bama’s track record. Forget about the noise from the 0bama shills in the media. They are just following the DNC script to demonize their opponent. Won’t work. 0bama has a horrible economic and foreign policy record, not to mention that he has turned NASA into Muslim outreach, the auto bailout was a UAW bailout to the tune of about $26 billion, the stimuli were more union payouts, “green energy” doesn’t work and shouldn’t get taxpayer billions. Forget about class warfare as that is in the Dem playbook. Republicans don’t see class, especially when looking at 0bama. Fight on the record and the economy.
The MSM sure are trying!
Every so-called gaffe can be turned to a candidate’s advantage if he has good enough speechwriters.
Instead of apologizing or offering weak defenses for poorly chosen words, which only push a candidate’s foot further into his mouth, good speechwriters can exploit a candidate’s post-gaffe moment in the spotlight to get his message across more strongly than ever and to many more people.
Mitt Romney should be using his current moment of maximum media exposure to warn prospective voters that a 47-percent government-dependency rate, if unchecked, will lead to Greek-like bankruptcy with no country large enough to bail us out. So we must have a new president or face catastrophe.
But are Mitt and his speechwriters sounding such warnings? No. To paraphrase America’s leading school reformer of the moment who’s standing his ground in Chicago, Never let a macaca moment go to waste. Unfortunately, Mitt doesn’t get it.
That occurred during the convention with the words: "Repeal and replace..."
That might have cost an additional percentage of the "base" to say "WTF" and decide to stay at home.
Probably there was already a substantial percent that had already decided to stay home and live with the consequences.
Make no mistake, the amerikan serfs (the 47%) have already decided that "red is better than dead"....Moreover, it's beginning to look like it will be the moslem shade of "red"...
First, let me vent. Mitt should resign over these over the top comments. I mean the RNC should even hold the money they were going to give him. And if Mitt ends up dead do not go looking for Karl Rove. Sound familiar?
Ok.. Mitt should keep talking, make the statement, let the press get after him and then go on TV and make a statement almost every day, looking Presidential, upstaging Obama and at the same time getting his ideas out there.