Posted on 09/18/2012 9:52:36 AM PDT by presidio9
No matter what Mitt Romney wanted this week to be about, it's clear that it's going to be about one thing: A campaign that is off message and in disarray.
The series of stories Monday morning that laid bare latent tensions within the Romney campaign, and in particular, displeasure with the one of the GOP candidate's trusted advisers, Stuart Stevens, turnout out to be just the beginning.
But it was the late-day hidden camera dump by Mother Jones' David Corn and video researcher James Carter that turned out to be the day's real atomic bomb. The leaked videos showed a series of candid moments from a May Romney fundraiser at which the presidential candidate said, among other things, that no matter what" he does, 47 percent of the population is going to vote for Obama because they are "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."
In the video, Romney is also shown saying, "My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Even so, voters are clearly waiting for the debates to make a final judgment on Romney. At least that was the take away from a focus group of suburban swing voters from Northern Virginia voters conducted last night in Fairfax, Virginia by Peter Hart for the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Despite being inundated with campaign ads,
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The media is going all-out in shaping sheep’s opinions.
If Mitt truly believes this and wants to win, then he needs to say this publicly and often...it’s the truth!
Google News has it as virtually every headline. It’s another “death blow” to the campaign. Just like Romney’s statements on Libya that don’t seem to have changed the race one iota.
Of course, it is what they do.
Rush making a good argument that this video was to be an October Surprise, but was released early to attempt to offset the horrible news for Obama this week.
The tape was made in May and was a “Twitter sensation” three weeks ago...they’ve been sitting on it and their hand was forced.
Google News has it as virtually every headline. It’s another “death blow” to the campaign. Just like Romney’s statements on Libya that don’t seem to have changed the race one iota.
Imagine referring to James Carter without saying who he is? David Corn is a weirdo in my opinion.
On the video, big friggin deal. I know the 47% is a wrong figure, but 53% would be a majority, wouldn’t it now?
I see ABC Pravda News is at it again. I want EVERYONE to see this video because people who view it will see that Romney was RIGHT..Obama voters are freeloaders. Anyone that watched the DNC Convention could see that..Waaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaa I want my free birth control, free abortion, free health care, free house, free food, free gas..meanwhile, those same freeloaders who want “Free” stuff will be the first in line this Friday to get the new iPhone 5..you can take that to the bank! So which is it America, do you want to live in freedom or tyranny..the choice is yours
“Disarray” — Big Media’s Word of the Week, applied to the wrong person because Big Media has eyes only for their god Hussein.
FU Big Media and your worthless POS god Hussein — FU!
The nightmare was four bodies coming home in caskets from Libya.
Btw didn’t they say it was evil when Monica taped Bill secretly with Linda Tripp’s help?
Oh I remember that was a demoncrat.
Mitt Romney, just come out every day and say darn right, this election is about opportunity vs government entitlement! ( I know he won’t say damn).
Try this - Google: "off message and in disarray".
Look how many variations there are - not all the same story, but the same narrative from multiple sources. In reality, there's really only one source: the Chicago White House.
Sad to say, the embassy attacks and ongoing violence are fading from the news. It seems that the media wants to talk about what is wrong with Romney’s campaign instead.
I laughed because what he said is true. Channel 5 in Los Angeles followed up with the study results where he got his numbers - and they didn’t say they were wrong!
BTW did anybody notice the Wisconsin recall vote result was 53.1% to 46.3% ??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUWFwY4OhaA&feature=share
It's Michelle Bachmann at at Values Voter Summit 2012 telling us that obama & hillary signed away our freedom of speech rights to a muslim group! She explains why they went after our ambassador & why we really need to vote obama out of office.
The media will never tell us that obama & hillary signed away our freedom of speech rights to the muslims. The media will run cover for them.
Everyone needs to watch this video
If this is all they have, they are truly desparate.
I imagine they think they can recover their credibility after they get their commie buffoon re-elected. Which is even funnier.
Chris Matthews won a pair of Obama “Foward” emblazoned logo kneepads last week.
So many worthy candidates this week. I wonder who it should go to?
If he stands by his 47% statements and his statements, from the same funfundraiser, regarding the Palestinians not really being interested in peace, I will vote for him.
keep believing that, Dumocrats. Might as well stay home on election day.
Yep! It is hard to disagree with Fact! Unless you are a entitled Lib.
MSM-—Look over here, don’t pay any attention to the burning of the middle east... Romney thinks that 47% of you don’t work and don’t pay taxes, therefore,he doesn’t believe you would ever vote for him... well, let’s prove how wrong he is and vote for him... wait...
They have already announced his campaign dead.
So he’s dead again?
HaHa, they did a focus group last night and STILL can’t get the “swing voters” to decide on anything!
Jimmy Carter’s grandson obviously is a deluded leftist like grandpop. Failed former prez grandkidacy.
What exactly is Mitt’s plan? He’s too smart for this campaign. What’s the strategy here? To lose? I can’t figure this out. I feel like her is MIA.
Speaking of Rove power and manipulation (on another thread) , someone needs to ask Rove if this is what he had in mind with Romney.
FU State Run Media!! You are our enemies!!
Don't cha just hate it when a politician actually tells the truth?
“If Mitt truly believes this and wants to win, then he needs to say this publicly and often...it’s the truth!”
Right on. Mitt Romney must not backtrack on this. Lefties can´t take the truth.
The more I hear from Mitt Romney the more I like him.
Being European I can´t sadly vote for him.
Get hussein obama out in November.
That is so bias and making the news. Just REPORT THE DAMN STORY and leave it up to the people whether or not it’s a DEATH BLOW. Bullshit media. Sickening.
They know none of this is going to turn independents into Obama voters - all they have left is to attempt to depress Republican turnout.
Several month old video.
MSM is doing a coordinated story every couple of days to attack Romney. “Campaign infighting / disarray.” Now it’s the leaked video which is old but serves the purpose — get Mitt reacting instead of attacking and keep people distracted from Obama’s failed Presidency.
Of course, to do this requires a completely complicit media.
On September 12, about 30 minutes after Obama sleepwalked through his prepared-but-somehow-still-wandering-and-incomplete, Ann Compton breathlessly described to millions of ABC Radio listeners how Obama had “in sorrow and anger” condemned the attack.
If Obama shot a Girl scout in the head, ABC would say she died as a complication of a procedure to remove lice and would have lived if Obamacare had been fully implemented already. If Romney saved a Girl scout from drowning and walked on water to get to her, ABC would open their broadcast with a story about how Romney’s dirty shoes pollute our waterways.
Come in over the Mexican border. Then you’ll get automatic voting rights.
There is a giant picture of Romney on the cover of the liberal Pittsburgh, PA paper here. On my Facebook page, many of my liberal friends are going ballistic over these Romney comments. I HOPE this (and the Palestinian comments) helps Romney as much as I think it will.
Ooops, let’s take another run at that.
On September 12, about 30 minutes after Obama sleepwalked through his prepared-but-somehow-still-wandering-and-incomplete statement on the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans with less emotion than he’s had about Final Four picks, Ann Compton breathlessly described to millions of ABC Radio listeners how Obama had “in sorrow and anger” condemned the attack.
If Obama shot a Girl scout in the head, ABC would say she died as a complication of a procedure to remove lice and would have lived if Obamacare had been fully implemented already. If Romney saved a Girl scout from drowning and walked on water to get to her, ABC would open their broadcast with a story about how Romney’s dirty shoes pollute our waterways.
Glad to see you're re-thinking that, but if you remember what you learned in third grade you would realize that in a two party system any failure to vote for the least undesirable candidate is mathematically equivalent to a vote for the most undesirable candidate.
Meanwhile, if you Do work, and you DO pay taxes, you only did that with the government's help.
Yawn.
It helps Romney unlike what the MSM says.
Actually, it was over at the moment he questioned whether the city of London was prepared for the Olympic games.
Never mind the fact that as a former Olympic games chairman, he was uniquely qualified to have an opinion on the subject.
Don’t apologize for telling the TRUTH!
Election over.
Good lord, he speaks the truth and the left is wetting their panties in excitement thinking Romney hurt his campaign. This is a clear view of how warped the left is that they think the truth is harmful.
Yes Romney is not very likable, but look at what Obama said;
‘’If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it’s possible that I’m a little too awesome.’’
Now which one is more likable than the other?
the Journ-o-list memo went out last night. All the leftists are using the same words.
Is ABC even still on the air?
What channel? Does anyone watch them?
What are their ratings? say..compared to someone good?
If you want to piss off a Conservative, tell him a lie.
If you want to piss off a Liberal, tell him the truth.
Both Obama and Romney know that position is correct but only Romney has the honesty and wisdom to tell the truth.
The wisdom is in the words, "they should take".
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