BREAKING SECRET VIDEO: Mitt Romney says 47% that support Obama are "Dependent" and "Victims"

[thecentristword]

Unbelievable - actually quite believable.

Mitt 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 the 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…These are people who pay no income tax.

Check out the video ->http://thecentristword.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/mitt-romney-47-of-americans-think-they-are-victims-and-are-dependent/

[Floyd_Gondolli]

1. Ouch. That's going to leave a mark

I think this could be the straw that broke the camel's back.

Oh who are we kidding. That happened in Tampa. But still, it's very very bad.

[thecentristword]

4. I totally agree

I follow politics every day - when I listened to this my jaw dropped.

Born a multimillionaire and he despises the poor - unfu**ing believable.

I think this video is going to be played a few hundred million times.

[Generic Brad]

2. I was stunned this was not satire

It's the real deal. If it wasn't obvious to anyone before, it is clear now. He has absolutely no clue how people live.

We have no right to health care? Food? Housing? What a greedy, mean spirited bastard! I thought he was supposed to be a right to lifer? Does that only apply to people who are not actually alive?

[Brigid]

3. I think I've finally figured out what's really wrong with Mitty.

It isn't Asperger's. It isn't Alzheimer's. It isn't even garden-variety sociopathy. He simply made a wrong turn and thinks this is the 19th century.

[ladjf]

5. That statement will cost Romney votes. nt

[TroyD]

6. David Corn Will be on Hardball at 7:00

Will be on Hardball at 7:00--> EXCLUSIVE SECRET VIDEO: Romney Dismisses All Obama Voters as Moochers and Victims

https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/247822527764787201

[thecentristword]

7. Cool - I'll be watching.

[progressivebydesign]

9. apparently he also joked that he'd win if he was "hispanic."

released on the day he went to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce meeting to speak. brilliant.

[progressivebydesign]

8. America: Explained by Romney.

47% of Americans are on welfare.

52% is "middle class" making 200k-250k

1% are hard working, worthy, lovely, people, who belong to his country club.

[thecentristword]

10. NBC News just played this video

And Chuck Todd spent 5 minutes saying that it was no big deal. I am so sick of Chuck Todd's opinions.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

21. but I bet

Chuckie thought the Obama "bitter clingers" leak was something worth rehashing for 6 months straight in 2008.

[LeftishBrit]

11. 'Dependent' is the current RW codeword for 'poor'

Unfortunately, it's spreading to the UK as well. It makes poverty sound like an addiction that people can overcome by being deprived of help. And another excuse for kicking people when they're down, and punishing them for being in need. Very Dickensian. Oliver Twist asked for MORE! - how dependent and entitled of him!

And the use of 'victims' as though it's a crime to be a victim, rather than to be a victimizer: another example of RW harshness and bullying.

'who believe the 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.'

This is a nasty attitude, especially from someone who seeks to run the government. If someone applied for a job and told their potential employers that they were at fault in believing that the employee had a responsibility to do the job, and in thinking that they were entitled to good service - well, I don't think they'd get the job! But somehow a political candidate can get away with what's essentially the same thing.

[TroyD]

12. UPDATE: Romney stands by comments dismissing 47% of Americans as "dependent" and lazy

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/17/863411/romney-stands-by-claim-that-47-of-americans-are-dependent-on-government/

[thecentristword]

22. Sickening - 47% still pay SS Tax, Property Tax, Sales Tax, Death Tax, etc. etc.

[DCBob]

13. This goes well with his previous remark "I'm Not Concerned About The Very Poor" back in Feb.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/mitt-romney-very-poor_n_1246557.html

[TroyD]

14. Jim Messina statement:

“It's shocking that a candidate for President of the United States would go behind closed doors and declare to a group of wealthy donors that half the American people view themselves as ‘victims,’ entitled to handouts, and are unwilling to take ‘personal responsibility’ for their lives. It’s hard to serve as president for all Americans when you’ve disdainfully written off half the nation.”


http://www.barackobama.com/press/release/statement-on-romneys-behind-closed-doors-remarks

[thecentristword]

15. Excellent - I think this one has legs

[Floyd_Gondolli]

19. The legs of elephants....muuwhahahahaha!

[EdwardKingSolomon]

16. A Disgrace that is Representative of the Entire Wealty Elite of this Nation.

The time shall soon come, when the hard working man can no longer feed his family, his children deprived the opportunity to higher education, the social order stagnate, and an era of American Aristocracy takes reign; however, this reign will be short-lived, as history will repeat itself once again:



Bring forward the wicked and cruel, and let the Guillotine bestow its wisdom upon them, and judge them fairly.

[mgarr]

17. It won't be just 47%

It is going to be more than that 47% of Americans who vote against you, Mr. Romney.
We don't want to see you anywhere NEAR the White House.
You are not only cynical and vacant, you are frightening.

[mvd]

18. This guy is extremely mean spirited

I am telling you, a Romney Presidency would make the Bush years look easy.

[Arneoker]

20. The problem I see is that there will be a lot of white, working class voters

who will say, "Right on!" Because Romney couldn't possibly be talking about them! No, he's was talking about...ahem, those "other people"! But of course Romney was talking about many of them, as well as the others!

But don't call Mitt divisive or anything, because he meant to keep his true feelings about these people, many of them who will still vote for him, a secret.

The trick will be to convince many of these people that if they are receiving anything like or SS, Medicare, or just don't pay Federal income taxes (of course they are paying other taxes) because they work hard earning low wages so that they can stay in their own place in the trailer park (just the truth, I'm not making fun of anyone, except possibly the self-entitled super-rich), that Romney is talking about them, and saying that the government gives them too good a deal.

[hrmjustin]

23. I heard that there is more to come. Thanks Mitt.n/t

[Retrograde]

24. He sounded different in the clip Rachel Maddow showed

No hesitations, no pandering - he sounded sincere, like he believed what he was saying. Scary.

[thecentristword]

25. I totally noticed the same thing. He was smooth and confident - not jerky like normal.

[thecentristword]

26. So just to be clear - IF YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA IN 2008 - ROMNEY DOESN"T WANT YOUR VOTE.

Cause you are a lazy, welfare, bum.

[ahtohg]

27. WOW, There is no way to walk this one back.

Calling 47% of the country lazy, dependent?!? Think of themselves as victims.

He is screwed.