Mitt Romney calls half of America freeloaders

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Originally Posted by geeker2

Zig after you see the actual words - what is so terrible about the way he answered a specific question ?


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...y-secret-video

Audience member: For the last three years, all everybody's been told is, "Don't worry, we'll take care of you." How are you going to do it, in two months before the elections, to convince everybody you've got to take care of yourself?

Romney: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, 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. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. And I mean, the president starts off with 48, 49, 48—he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. And he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that's what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the 5 to 10 percent in the center that are independents that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not, what it looks like. I mean, when you ask those people…we do all these polls—I find it amazing—we poll all these people, see where you stand on the polls, but 45 percent of the people will go with a Republican, and 48 or 4…

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i have an issue with someone saying that every voter for his opponent is on the govt teat. it's completely incorrect. and it shows his lack of understanding of the country in general, and the population in particular.

a lot of people who 'depend' on the govt are actually largely republican voters. the man was kowtowing to his audience. he already said in the past he's not worried about the poor, now he's not worried about anyone who he feels would vote for obama.
that doesn't leave very many people for him to worry about, does it?
personally, i don't think many politicians really give a damn about any of us. they only care about themselves.
i'm not anti mitt because of that speech. i won't vote for him because of his stance on things, which i've already posted about.
and i have no doubt everyone has seen my take on obama...so like i said elsewhere, i will be voting for a third party candidate.