Posted on 10/05/2012 10:48:18 AM PDT by L,TOWM
Mitt Romney for the first time characterized his comments during a fundraiser that were surreptitiously filmed and caught the candidate essentially writing off 47 percent of Americans as "completely wrong."
"Clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question and answer sessions, now and then you're gonna say something that doesn't come out right," Romney said in an interview Wednesday night with Fox News' Sean Hannity. "In this case I said something that's just completely wrong."
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Actually...I knew exactly what he meant....And Madison warned of it....Read 55 Men and the Constitution
If that’s the way he honestly feels, then so be it. Rather have him be truthful than otherwise.
he is wrong for saying he was wrong.
So once again the Mass Media spin put on the statement is completely at odds with what was actually said.
Maybe he meant the 47% is really 50%.
At least he doesn’t seem a pathological liar like soetoro.
Not really an issue anymore but put some distance to it. Barry has nothing else so deny him even this
its a mere campaign housekeeping move intended to clean up and remove an obozo line of attack.
in the last few weeks of this campaign, RR wants to be totally on offense.
This is really just preparing for the next debate. You know Dopey Barack will be bringing up the 47% comment over and over and this allows Romney to deflect.
This is really just preparing for the next debate. You know Dopey Barack will be bringing up the 47% comment over and over and this allows Romney to deflect.
Yes, it was wrong.
The actual number is more like 52%.
I like what you said =)
What he said never bothered me. He was conflating several issues so understood literally, it wasn’t right. But I understood the point he was trying to make.
One point is that nearly half the country pays no income tax. If that number reaches 50% we are toast.
A second issue is that fact that so many people, and companies too, are dependent on government. That percentage is also very high, and if it reaches beyond a certain point, again, we’re toast.
A third issue is that, among the people and companies too that are dependent on government, many of them can’t conceive of a world in which they are not dependent. The likelihood is that they are never going to vote for less government. So a politician running on a platform that is based on limited government is going to have a hard time selling it. Repubs like to blab on about tax cuts but tax cuts don’t inspire anyone and most especially they don’t inspire people who see themselves as dependent. Explaining the whole notion of limited government and freedom to such people requires you to explain concepts we tend to take for granted, the connection between freedom, and happiness, freedom and prosperity. Freedom for its own sake. And still you aren’t going to reach some people.
Fourthly, there is a certain core of people who will never vote for a Repub no matter what. You’re probably wasting your time with them.
These four groups are not identical, though there is a pretty good overlap. Conflating them was rhetorical shorthand. I think most people got it.
Sensible move. True or not, his comments here were poorly presented and susceptible to being spun against him. Right now, he’s basking in the post-debate glow of his performance on Wednesday, and statements such as this for once are attracting little criticism in the MSM. Should this issue come up in a future debate now, he can simply say ‘look, I mis-spoke. I’ve already said that unequivocably, weeks ago. Let’s move on to discuss what’s important.’
Contrary to popular belief, I don’t think the general public necessary expect politicians to be infallible. Admitting a minor mistake in one’s words during one speech out of thousands can actually help to develop a reputation for honesty and straight dealing.
I doubt that he’s wrong. The number is more like 20%. He just got his numbers mixed up. He was thinking the percent that is not paying income tax is the same as those getting a free ride.
It’s not.
read #4 post....Switch it to scroll at the top....Madison at his best....from 55 Men & the Constitution
He was wrong.
While there are waaaaaay too many Americans who want nothing more than an ever increasing government handout, it is not 47%.
A large portion of that 47% is seniors, who largely support Romney. Another large portion is poor young people who don’t have much now, but aspire to great things later in life.
Better to speak to their hopes and dreams instead of appearing to just write them off as a lost cause.
And people DON’T like politicians who get caught.
Then he needs to come clean and admit Extortion-Care in Massachusetts or otherwise was wrong.
Further he needs to admit coming back with an “replaced” Extortion-Care where people are at the mercy of insurance company dictates, is also wrong.
And finally, if he took any kind of compensation as governor of Massachusetts, from Massachusetts, health care on taxpayers dime, then he has actually indicted himself of mooching off productive taxpayers, along with the rest of the GOP and Dem hypocrites mooching off their extravagant retirements, Exemptions from Extortion-Care, salaries and compensations self-hiked, free transportation, aides, recesses, campaigning while working, etc., on and on and on.
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