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Secret Video Worsens Mitt Romney's September Nightmare (ABC News at its worst)
ABC OTUS News ^ | Sept.ember 19, 2012 | MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER

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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KEYWORDS: agitprop; clowncarmedia; inthetank4the1
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1 posted on 09/18/2012 9:52:40 AM PDT by presidio9
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The media is going all-out in shaping sheep’s opinions.


2 posted on 09/18/2012 9:54:57 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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If Mitt truly believes this and wants to win, then he needs to say this publicly and often...it’s the truth!


3 posted on 09/18/2012 9:55:41 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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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.


4 posted on 09/18/2012 9:55:59 AM PDT by Viennacon
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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.


5 posted on 09/18/2012 9:57:05 AM PDT by bigbob
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The DNC-MSM are making up 'templates' in concert with the radical leftist blogs (like Mother Jones), on a week-by-week basis. Get used to it, this is will be their game-plan until election day. Each day they can keep the talk away from the traitor Obama, and instead on Romney, is a victory for them
6 posted on 09/18/2012 9:57:23 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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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.


7 posted on 09/18/2012 9:57:44 AM PDT by Viennacon
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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?


8 posted on 09/18/2012 9:57:51 AM PDT by Andrei Bulba (No Obama, no way!)
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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


9 posted on 09/18/2012 9:58:31 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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“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!


10 posted on 09/18/2012 9:59:29 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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The nightmare was four bodies coming home in caskets from Libya.


11 posted on 09/18/2012 9:59:55 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (I'm starting a business. Who's going to build it for me?)
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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).


12 posted on 09/18/2012 10:04:40 AM PDT by Andrei Bulba (No Obama, no way!)
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What we are witnessing is a coordinated campaign by the Democrats and their news media sycophants.

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.

13 posted on 09/18/2012 10:04:40 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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14 posted on 09/18/2012 10:04:59 AM PDT by Obadiah (The Hunger Games -- Obama's vision for America)
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To: Rennes Templar

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.


15 posted on 09/18/2012 10:05:38 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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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!


16 posted on 09/18/2012 10:06:52 AM PDT by InsensitiveConservative
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BTW did anybody notice the Wisconsin recall vote result was 53.1% to 46.3% ??


17 posted on 09/18/2012 10:07:06 AM PDT by pfflier
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Where is the media on this video?

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


18 posted on 09/18/2012 10:07:38 AM PDT by GloriaJane (Pro Choice = Pro Death - Pro Life = Pro LIFE!)
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If this is all they have, they are truly desparate.


19 posted on 09/18/2012 10:07:52 AM PDT by CityCenter
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For ABC there is no bottom. They really are showing America their *ss this year.

I imagine they think they can recover their credibility after they get their commie buffoon re-elected. Which is even funnier.

20 posted on 09/18/2012 10:08:25 AM PDT by skeeter
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