With Rich Donors, a More Candid Romney Emerges (NYT)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/us/politics/with-donors-a-more-candid-romney-emerges.html

With Rich Donors, a More Candid Romney Emerges
By MICHAEL BARBARO and ASHLEY PARKER

LAS VEGAS — In Chicago, Mitt Romney regaled wealthy donors with a boyhood memory of volunteering to clean up a litter-strewn football field, the kind of humanizing tale he typically avoids on the campaign trail.

In Palm Beach, Fla., he walked contributors through a list of the federal agencies he planned to shut down or combine, a level of specificity he had not offered to voters.

At a fund-raiser in Wilson, Wyo., he heaped praise on former Vice President Dick Cheney, aligning himself with an unpopular Republican presidency in a way he is loath to do in public.

With their unvarnished tone and political candor, Mr. Romney’s secretly recorded comments to donors in Boca Raton, Fla. — in which he said 47 percent of Americans are dependent on government handouts and do not pay income taxes — seemed jarring and unusual to those who have digested a year’s worth of his public statements. They suggest the possibility of two Romneys: the careful candidate behind the lectern at a rally, and the blunt man behind closed doors with Republican contributors. ...

[Viva_Daddy]

1. "I am shocked...shocked I say...to hear that there is gambling going on...."

[Laurajr]

2. he talks fluently no stuttering or searching for words or repeating

when talking with the rich he is eloquent but full of bull shit anyway

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. This guy is nervous around the lower classes.