Romney opens mouth, inserts foot
Mitt Romney – Caricature (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)
The Associated Press: Romney: Nearly half believe they are victims.
Could things possibly get any worse for Mitt Romney‘s presidential campaign?
The day after Ambassador Stevens was killed at the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, Romney criticized President Obama’s response to the protests in the Muslim world. Recent polls show that only 26% of Americans approved of Romney’s comments, and he even drew criticism from many fellow Republicans.
And that may have been one of Mitt’s good days given the most recent news.
The Associated Press reported that a hidden-camera video of Romney addressing wealthy donors just surfaced. Since no one says it better than the candidate himself, here’s a little excerpt:
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what, There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that 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,” Romney said. “47 percent of Americans pay no income tax… my job is not to care about those people.”
As soon as he heard about the video, Romney immediately called a press conference, agreed the comments were “not elegantly stated” and predictably claimed they were taken out of context. Could he be telling the truth?
I doubt it.
Romney seems more interested in the needs of the wealthy than the needs of average Americans. To him, we are “victims” who depend on the government for everything and never pay our taxes. Even if these comments were taken out of context, they still hurt the people who are struggling out there in a weak economy. The same people Romney keeps asking to support him in November, mind you.
I can give Romney the benefit of the doubt where this video is concerned, but only because he has embarrassed himself on so many other occasions. I decided a long time ago that he wasn’t the right leader for our country. I”m not saying Obama is, either, but he’s certainly the lesser of two evils.
Would I be willing to change my vote if Romney dazzled me before November? Of course.
But the odds of him embarrassing himself again before Election Day are so much better.
Posted on September 18, 2012, in Perspectives and tagged Barack Obama, Benghazi, commentary, current-events, Mitt Romney, news, opinion, perspectives, politics, Republican, United States. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
Romney is spectacularly the buffoon, is he not? He comes across as incredibly arrogant, proud, and uncaring, to me. I laugh now when I read of his latest stuff-up. But if he won I’d certainly cry. I cringe when I wonder if the friends I grew up with who are now pro-Republican, have similar values and concerns as Romney does. Eeek!
My mind settles when I start imagining what I’d like to be a compulsory experience for ALL politicians: living on the lowest of welfare, unable to get a job, no access to other money, for at least a month a year. If a politician in my country did this I would vote for them much more readily cuz they would have walked in others’ shoes.
Isn’t Romney a Mormon? Don’t they care passionately about protecting and helping the poor? Or is that just fake?
Rach.
He is a Mormon and I have no idea what he believes, Rach. And you’re right: all politicians should be forced to live as most of their constituents live. It would certainly make them more effective.
Thanks for the great comments!
You sure don’t have very good choices for Pres.,but cheer-up,We have A**H*** Harper.He hasn’t the guts to defend his own people against foreign government.
I don’t think any of us have the best choices, doglady. Politicians are politicians…
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Wow…