Secretly filmed video of Mitt reveals ungarded views

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Secretly filmed video of Mitt Romney, apparently at fundraiser, reveals unguarded views

notageek · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:12 am Post subject:

So, it's bad for Romney?

Wait, a BBC article is on it.

tylerwylie · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:08 am Post subject:

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BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

The Democrats are desperate to create a gaffe for Romney. They sneaked somebody into a fundraising dinner, to try and catch him saying something like Obama did (referring to the rednecks of Pennsylvania clinging to the bibles and guns).

This is no gaffe, it's a fact. It's not embarrassing to anybody. The only people who would be offended by it are those people who, in fact, have already decided to vote for Obama.

It's a non-event, other than to fapping zealots.
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Muso · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:21 am Post subject:

Why is the truth controversial?
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petrjanda · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:31 am Post subject:

Coming from a guy who is supposedly trying to win enough hearts and minds of the american people to make him the president, I find it ridiculous. I also find it even more ridiculous to think that the 47% of americans who will vote Obama do it because they feel like victims and "pay no taxes". How about those people who will simply not vote for Romney because he's no better than Obama?
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shrndegruv · l33t Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 658

I agree with his sentiment, but the fact of the matter is he said "pay no taxes" when in reality should have said "pay no **income** taxes**. So his number is flat out wrong (and he knows it).

His sentiment that people feel entitled to things is right on though. Try to take anything away from anybody and you get a bunch of bellyaching. Everyone wants someone to do something, they themselves just dont want to do anything.

I'm guessing that Romney is correct that many will vote for Obama simply because he will give them more things.

I really wish the Republicans had more modern moral/social bearings....
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jonnevers · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:22 pm Post subject:

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aidanjt · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:21 pm Post subject:

nomilieu · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Posts: 24

While I'm sure there are many people feeling so entitled, it's still odd to talk shit about poor workers not paying income taxes.
If you make so little that you get a tax credit, what are you going to do: not claim it?

(Perhaps I'm merely not the target of the statement, although I am impoverished by US standards.)

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jonnevers · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:38 pm Post subject:

aidanjt · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:45 pm Post subject:

Darth Marley · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 105

If you pay people to not work, they tend to not work.

Look at the history of "temporary unemployment benefits" being extended.

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pjp · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 11:38 pm Post subject:

"Clinging to guns & religion = Obama is an elitist."

"Lazy victims who contribute nothing = Romney is just telling the truth."

:lol:

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mcgruff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 137

This whole shambles is going to be cited for decades to come as a prime example of how to f*ck up a presidential campaign.
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pjp · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:38 am Post subject:

He probably didn't say lazy. I haven't heard it that many times, but I do think it was implied. He's not even wrong, but it isn't the way to go about discussing it.

Not everyone comes from a family with the advantages he had. Not everyone is exposed to the skills he learned to lead him where he was in the private sector (not referring to education, etc). So someone who may think they are a victim doesn't benefit by him (or others) denigrating them. Discussing solutions might go a long way. And just a reminder, I don't really disagree with him.

I must have retyped the word trying to make it fit. Can't seem to blame it on any of the Mtn. Dew keys.
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BoneKracker · Veteran Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 1488 Location: U.S.A.

It will be cited for decades as "Propaganda and the Press: Catalysts of the New American Authoritarianism" (in a book banned from shelves in the U.S. and not reviewed by the New York Times).
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dmitchell · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:45 am Post subject:

"I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing." - Mencken
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