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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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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agitprop; clowncarmedia; inthetank4the1
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To: presidio9
I am awarding my “Media Kneepad Award Of The Week” again this week.

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?

21 posted on 09/18/2012 10:09:16 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Encourage all of your Democrat friends to get out and vote on November 7th, the stakes are high.)
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To: presidio9
I've maintained throughout this election cycle that I will not vote for Mitt Romney.

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.

22 posted on 09/18/2012 10:09:23 AM PDT by Washi (The secret ingredient in a Chick-Fil-A sandwich is liberal outrage. Delicious.)
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To: presidio9

keep believing that, Dumocrats. Might as well stay home on election day.


23 posted on 09/18/2012 10:09:32 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Yep! It is hard to disagree with Fact! Unless you are a entitled Lib.


24 posted on 09/18/2012 10:10:15 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: presidio9

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...


25 posted on 09/18/2012 10:10:32 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: presidio9

They have already announced his campaign dead.

So he’s dead again?


26 posted on 09/18/2012 10:10:37 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: presidio9

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.


27 posted on 09/18/2012 10:10:37 AM PDT by Andrei Bulba (No Obama, no way!)
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To: riri

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.


28 posted on 09/18/2012 10:10:51 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: presidio9; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; Gilbo_3; wiggen; muawiyah
Romney : “My job is not to worry about those people..” (the 47% who pay no FITs)

Speaking of Rove power and manipulation (on another thread) , someone needs to ask Rove if this is what he had in mind with Romney.

29 posted on 09/18/2012 10:10:57 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Romney is still a liberal. Just watch him. (Obama-ney Care ))
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To: presidio9

FU State Run Media!! You are our enemies!!


30 posted on 09/18/2012 10:11:05 AM PDT by Batman11 (We came for the chicken sandwiches and a Sweet Tea Party broke out!)
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To: presidio9
"My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Don't cha just hate it when a politician actually tells the truth?

31 posted on 09/18/2012 10:11:38 AM PDT by mojito
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To: Timber Rattler

“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.


32 posted on 09/18/2012 10:11:58 AM PDT by Christian1
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To: Viennacon

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.


33 posted on 09/18/2012 10:14:01 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: presidio9
The MSM's September meme: "You're voting for Romney? Look at what an ASS he is! You had better just stay home."

They know none of this is going to turn independents into Obama voters - all they have left is to attempt to depress Republican turnout.

34 posted on 09/18/2012 10:14:12 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: presidio9

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.


35 posted on 09/18/2012 10:14:47 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: presidio9

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.


36 posted on 09/18/2012 10:15:39 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (I walk forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie.)
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To: Christian1

Come in over the Mexican border. Then you’ll get automatic voting rights.


37 posted on 09/18/2012 10:17:40 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: presidio9

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.


38 posted on 09/18/2012 10:18:21 AM PDT by PghBaldy (I am sick of Obama's and Hillary's apologies to muslims, especially after 11 September 2012.)
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To: presidio9

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.


39 posted on 09/18/2012 10:19:52 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (I walk forty-seven miles of barbed wire, I got a cobra snake for a necktie.)
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To: Washi
I've maintained throughout this election cycle that I will not vote for Mitt Romney.

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.

40 posted on 09/18/2012 10:22:55 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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