The majority of those that Romney derides as being takers because they don't pay income taxes actually pay a higher percentage of taxes than he does: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...f-the-taker-class-and-why-it-matters/?hpid=z3
And elements on the right of course are embracing what Romney said:
What he ought to do is step up and embrace the basic division in our nation, including the fact that nearly half the country pays no income taxes. Acknowledge it — and then explain why, morally, this is not a good thing. Why having no skin in the game while at the same time demanding a say in the proceedings at the federal level is fundamentally undemocratic. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/322409/mitts-gettysburg-moment-michael-walsh#
Cool - apparently a return to something similar to the old concept that only landowners should be entitled to a vote.
What he ought to do is step up and embrace the basic division in our nation, including the fact that nearly half the country pays no income taxes. Acknowledge it — and then explain why, morally, this is not a good thing. Why having no skin in the game while at the same time demanding a say in the proceedings at the federal level is fundamentally undemocratic. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/322409/mitts-gettysburg-moment-michael-walsh#
Cool - apparently a return to something similar to the old concept that only landowners should be entitled to a vote.
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Why not change it even more? Make it so only people with magic underpants are entitled to a vote. This would force millions of Americans to convert to Mormonism just so they can vote. 
One Presidential candidate has an administration that brags about killing people with drones, and the other is out of touch with reality. Great election we have coming up. I understand Romney's speech was from May. Why would it take so long to become public?
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Good question.
Maybe because the owners of the news media are sympathetic to the GOP and tried to keep it hidden?
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I disagree. I think they intended to hold on to it and release at at a point in time that was closer to the election...so that the issue would continue to resonate in the mind of the public. Otherwise, they might have forgotten about it by election day if it had been released shortly after it was recorded.
Yup. October surprise, just in September. I've not noticed the media supporting the Republican candidate very often. The majority of journalists are registered Democrats. Except Fox fake news lol.
The media is obviously much more liberal than they are conservative. I think the New World Order would be happy with either being President, but it's safe to say they have their favorite. Obama would be the one this election and it's likely the reason they've released it so late. As one who will be voting Green Party, I'm happy to say I won't be voting for either of the jokes.
The *media* didn't have it - the video was taken by either one of the guests ($50,000 per plate), or by somebody who was a server or other worker at the event. It was given to the media only recently, but I agree with Beancounter that the timing of handing it over was probably calculated.
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Mitt Romney would have been fine if he had just said, 'I'm going to focus my campaign efforts on garnering support from independents', because that makes perfect sense. But he didn't say that. At his most candid, speaking "privately" to his peers, he demonized nearly half of the voting population, falsely accused the majority of Obama supporters as being powerless parasites, and referred to food, housing and health care as entitlements.
Forget everything Mitt Romney has ever said in public. At this $50,000-a-plate "private" fundraiser, the real Mitt Romney stood up.
Forget everything Mitt Romney has ever said in public. At this $50,000-a-plate "private" fundraiser, the real Mitt Romney stood up.
The lack of mitts own personal responsibility is what is really troubling. He can only say it could have been said "more elegantly"!
He continued to defend his animal abuse.
He chastised the president for "apologizing"
I've never wished for CEO to lead our country. He's the one who sells out to China if it's profitable, and never minds the Amercians it hurt.
He continued to defend his animal abuse.
He chastised the president for "apologizing"
I've never wished for CEO to lead our country. He's the one who sells out to China if it's profitable, and never minds the Amercians it hurt.
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Isn't the "new world order" thing some sort of conspiracy theory?
That or the Mitt Romney who wanted to pander to wealthy Republican campaign donors showed up. "Speaking privately to his peers" is misleading. It was a pitch, just to a different audience.
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A snippet of it was posted to YouTube some time ago. During a routine scan of YouTube it was discovered by a Democratic party activist (interestingly this activist was Jimmy Carter IV, the former president's grandson). Carter tracked down the person who posted the video and hooked them up with an editor at Mother Jones magazine, who negotiated the release of the full hour-length speech. Mother Jones went public with the find two or three days ago. So if the media held the footage, they held it for a matter of hours at most after receiving it. It's actually come out in two chunks, but I don't know if that was the decision of MJ or media outlets.
That's the story, but if believing it was the Trilateral Commision or the Illuminati or the Jews or our Reptilian Overlords makes people happy, who am I to let the actual chronology of events get in the way?
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As far as timing of the release goes, wouldn't it make more sense to hold an "October surprise" until October? The footage would have been more impactful if it came out AFTER the debates rather than now, especially if Romney turns in a good performance at the debates. It's not like the Romney campaign has needed any help looking bad the last week or so. With the footage coming out now he has time to attempt damage control that wouldn't be available to him in late October.
Jimmy Carter's grandson has been spending many hours scouring the internet for dirt on Romney as payback for negative remarks made by Romney about Jimmy Carter and in hopes of helping defeat Romney. He (grandson) is unemployed, but has received several job offers since the release of the tapes, which he discovered in August.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politi...+usatoday-NewsTopStories+(News+-+Top+Stories)
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It may not be strictly inaccurate, but it implies he's talking casually with his guard down rather than making a pitch.
"The private sector is fine."
"Paul Ryan is a decent man."
"We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years."
It wasn't Romney who made these comments. It was Obama. Romney gets mocked for some of the comments he's made but Obama has made plenty of comments that show he's out of touch with reality as well. Funny how some of them are completely ignored by the media, while Romney's are talked about. The media clearly has their favorites.
"Paul Ryan is a decent man."
"We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years."
It wasn't Romney who made these comments. It was Obama. Romney gets mocked for some of the comments he's made but Obama has made plenty of comments that show he's out of touch with reality as well. Funny how some of them are completely ignored by the media, while Romney's are talked about. The media clearly has their favorites.