CBS News–fuggedaboutit!
Mitt Romney, trying to distance himself from perhaps his most damaging campaign moment, said Thursday that his infamous “47 percent” remarks were “completely wrong.”
“Clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you are going to say something that doesn’t come out right. In this case I said something that’s just completely wrong,” Romney told Sean Hannity on Fox News. “And I absolutely believe, however, that my life has shown that I care about 100 percent. And that has been demonstrated throughout my life. And this whole campaign is about the 100 percent. When I become president it will be about helping the 100 percent.”
A leaked videotape last month revealed Romney telling wealthy donors at a Boca Raton, Fla. fundraiser that 47 percent of the country, President Obama’s supporters, don’t pay income taxes; consider themselves victims; feel entitled to government handouts, and will never be persuaded to take personal responsibility for their lives…
Following what’s broadly considered a Mitt Romney victory in this week’s debate at the University of Denver, it makes perfect sense that Romney would try to deal with his severely damaging remarks about 47% of Americans who “believe they are victims” before that afterglow fades. Of course it’s the moment to do this. Romney’s heretofore response on the questions raised by that video, that his point was “inelegantly stated” but essentially correct, had completely failed to quell the resentment over what he plainly said. Recorded in secret, before the friendliest of audiences, these remarks have been firmly planted in the national consciousness as reflective of how Mitt Romney really feels–regardless of what he says in public. Absent something even more dramatic, this video could well have been the beginning of the end of the race.
And folks, it still may be. Romney’s debate performance was not so commanding that it allows him to simply erase an issue that dominated the headlines in the weeks prior, that Romney had explicitly defended after its exposure, and was never even addressed in the debate that has supposedly given him all this newfound space to morph back into “Moderate Mitt.” In addition, post-debate fact checking has done much to undermine Romney’s oratorical victory.
Like we hinted above, if we were giving Romney advice, we can’t say we’d tell him not to try this. Resolving this seriously damaging incident on Romney’s terms would be a big help, and would underscore the folly of President Barack Obama’s failure to attack Romney in the forum where it would have been most appropriate–Wednesday’s debate on economic policy.
But it’s also exactly what you would expect from a guy who will say anything to win.
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The only mistake was letting the hired help hear what they really believe. What Romney says now doesn’t change things ; the rich already know he’s one of them, and the cat’s out of the bag: we plebians know the same thing.
“Clint Eastwood’s Chair could have done a better job than Obama at the debate”
See it’s called a debate. Were the facts inaccurate the President had the opportunity to point this out in real time and rebut them. Noticed polls today in Florida and Virginia now put Romney ahead and only down one in Ohio.
It was a bad night and hopefully the new unemployment numbers will help
Are you Scott Tipton’s nephew or something? I can’t imagine how else you’d get a job with his campaign, since you’re clearly the dumbest fucking guy on the blog.
h/t sxp !
have been saying “wrong” things about half the population for a long, long time. They say it “off the cuff” because they can, because they wrote the lines, because they perpetuate this class warfare.
In any case, it is about more than being “wrong” about a number. It is about long held world views that have influenced policy decisions and directions
I’m not going to bother looking for the video of this interview. But Hannity was one of the FNC talking heads who fully supported Romney and completely endorsed these remarks when the video came out, yet the chances he challenged Mitt even the slightest on this about-face are nil. Our own A-BOT can also be counted on to never mention it again, despite his strong “hell yeah” kind of remark he gave at the time.
http://www.motherjones.com/moj…
to those apparently long-forgotten and simpler times, . . .
the halcyon days of this past October the Second . . .
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
. . .
bullshit. His whole “business” was about taking, about “harvesting” all the resources and assets of a business after getting $ from loans and taking those businesses into bankruptcy, laying off many thousands after lowering their pay for the last months of their employment.
As someone who was actually in business as long as he claims he was I am offended that he calls himself a business person. He has been nothing but a parasite attaching himself to a host and killing it to benefit himself and his investors
opinions are not right or wrong. They can be based on falsehoods, but they’re not right or wrong.
Wrong, no.
Revealing and disturbing, yes.
Pols is off the mark on this remark.
The damage is already done. It is like having something on the front page of the paper and then the retraction buried deep inside later. Romney can’t walk back his statements at this point without further damaging his credibility.
Now he’s brought it up like his tax returns and Obama didn’t have to lift a finger.
I don’t see that as folly at all.
Just sayin’.
A megalomaniac and pathological liar is my take. The man is driven by some deep-seated sickness regarding something he has to prove to his father. They make creepy movies about guys like that.
to settle a score for daddy.
But I’m not a psychiatrist. I just play one at ColoPols.
Just sayin’. 🙂
I don’t care if he is wearing a friggin tie and does the best acting job!
http://thinkprogress.org/polit…
thats a lie every minute and a half. Thats a new zenith even for Romney.
He admits what he said was wrong, and Pols looks for a way to attack.
You are a bunch of ridiculous bitter partisans. I can’t wait until you’re forced to admit President Romney is helping this country get back on its feet.
of the Cayman Islands to do that without disallowing American deposits
he admits what he said was wrong and no one believes him.
He just didn’t mean for it to be recorded and broadcast.
http://www.motherjones.com/moj…
For Romney, a fountain of BS, keeps A-GOP working very hard in a thankless job.
I understand. I was born a Cubs fan. We got nothing but losing and more losing.
But, thankfully, I learned a thing or two about winning elections. And we’re gonna win.
Our next meet up to celebrate Nov 6th ought to be there. The first $100 is on me 😉
Been wanting to try the place ever since this story broke.
You just blindly parrot whatever your masters tell you and flip-flop along with them. The ultimate follower with no original thought of his own. What a pathetic toadie you are.
What I say to my boss in public is true.
This is how all normal humans function, correct?
“President Romney.”
Why don’t YOU admit that what YOU said was wrong? Remember when YOU wrote this?
Then, only ONE DAY LATER, you say this:
And now, you say
To summarize, YOU, A-BOT, thought his comments were DAMN RIGHT, but that he wasn’t talking about the same groups of people even when he was, and he’s wrong.
You flip flop as hard as Willard. No wonder you’re his boy.
I wanted to post the Gopher talking out of both sides of his mouth simultaneously, but I couldn’t bear to read over his stuff a second time to prove it.
Thanks for doing the burdensome chore of researching his nonsense.
His “DAMN RIGHT” BS made an impression because there is no walking back from it. I kept it in mind in case he ever tried.
after doubling down on it for weeks.
Read all your party buddies blasting the ‘moocher class’ that is half of America. On every editorial page in the letters across the nation. Fool.
Their lips start moving.
He’s a whore.
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