# RomneyShamblesFollow

Laying the groundwork for Palin/Christie 2016?

Oversample! Oversample!!

Anyway, the obvious issue for Romney here isn't that millions of people are going to change their vote based on this one incident. The immediate issue is that Romney is spending his "re-launch" week on this rather than re-launching. It also acts as a reinforcement of the still widely negative image much of the country has of Romney as an out-of-touch plutocrat. Now we get Romney saying "of course" he cares about the poor and his wife on TV saying he absolutely doesn't disdain the less fortunate. That's not exactly playing offense.

But the majority of people who don't pay taxes are known republican voters. 27% of those Romney included in not paying taxes are elderly citizens who the majority of vote republican. Of the remaining 20% over half reside in the southern Red Block states and are likely republican supporters.

It has nothing to do with the taxes even, that part of the comment doesn't concern me, and I don't find it funny. What I do find funny is that Romney dismissed nearly half of the voters, saying that he doesn't care to win their vote, which in politics clearly means he doesn't care to be their president. This is supported by earlier comments where Romney stated he did not care for poor people. Whom make up a large % of people who are not paying these taxes, and again a majority of whom are actually voters who live in Red Block states.




No what is funny is Romney saying he doesn't care for half the american population. That is what is funny. He clearly doesn't care to help these people open doors into becoming tax paying citizens. In order to do that they need better jobs, more cost effective health care, support for food and shelter in some cases, support for expensive medications. All things that help people save money, and either invest it into something, or eventually becoming a home owner, or buy a new car, or send their kids to college so maybe they can have a better life.


Probably the funniest part will be seeing him trying to answer these social policy and foreign policy questions. He is a known flip flopper so it will be humorous to see how he answers. Will he cave into the 47% of America he just publicly chastised, will he flip flop on his comments about palestine, or Iran. I mean he did call them all crazy so it will be interesting to see where the Arab Voters stand.

That is what will be funny. He has to go for 270 minutes next month toeing the line released in this video, or he will be pummeled to death with flip flop attack adds, not that it matters anyway, it will take a collapse of monumental proportions to have Romney in the White House.

What's funny is all the liberals scrambling to make this about Romney being mean and away from Romney being right.

Two minor issues. He's not right, the total tax burden as a percentage of income on many of the people he's speaking of is far higher than his own. Secondly, it's not mean that comes across, it's hopelessly out of touch. It's hurting him, and badly. Pretend otherwise if you like, but this completely undermines the whole persona they spent 300 million selling. They would have been better off buying people pens that said "vote Romney!"

Yep. It was theirs to lose, and it looks like they're embracing the loss. I almost feel like it's deliberate.

Glad I'm not the only one.

I don't feel like it's deliberate so much as no one seems to be making any attempt at keeping Romney from inadvertently sabotaging his own campaign.

The difference being that Obama doesn't say that he doesn't have to care about the poor because they have a safety net.

Or that the poor in the safety net are self-entitled and self-perceived "victims" demanding that the government care for them and unwilling to take any personal responsibility for their lives.

I dunno I can only understand flip flop for so long after a while I just assume the guy is bat ****.

Write that book, Jared Diamond.

Edited, Sep 20th 2012 10:31am by Eske

That and six months to put it behind him versus six weeks.

Iir he said he was writing off the 47%. I took that to mean he was writing them off as perspective voters in the election versus writing them off as american citizens. But then yeah, he did go on to say stupid and stupider stuff.

He did. The most damaging one is too subtle to use on most voters, though. "I inherited nothing" as if Daddy's connections and the guarantee of a robust safety net in the case of any failure allowing him to risk at will was an identical circumstance to someone born into abject poverty.