The Republican challenger speaks an uncomfortable truth — that it's hard enough to beat an incumbent president without almost half the electorate feeling dependent on him for some kind of government benefit.
The conveniently timed release of a video taped in May and leaked by Mother Jones in September has the usual suspects in the mainstream media chattering that Mitt Romney's candidacy for president is now doomed.
Even if it is true, you just can't say that 47% of Americans are dependent on government and that they're hard to reach politically because of that.
In one clip, Romney describes how his campaign would not try to appeal to "47% of the people" who will vote for President Obama "no matter what."
They are, he says, "dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them."
No doubt there are people who are dependent on government due to circumstances beyond their control. But it's been a main thrust of this administration to make as many people dependent on government as possible — witness ObamaCare — and its motives haven't always been pure.
This is the administration from which comes a steady drumbeat of class warfare, that rails against the evil "1%" while seeking to redistribute the...
The conveniently timed release of a video taped in May and leaked by Mother Jones in September has the usual suspects in the mainstream media chattering that Mitt Romney's candidacy for president is now doomed.
Even if it is true, you just can't say that 47% of Americans are dependent on government and that they're hard to reach politically because of that.
In one clip, Romney describes how his campaign would not try to appeal to "47% of the people" who will vote for President Obama "no matter what."
They are, he says, "dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them."
No doubt there are people who are dependent on government due to circumstances beyond their control. But it's been a main thrust of this administration to make as many people dependent on government as possible — witness ObamaCare — and its motives haven't always been pure.
This is the administration from which comes a steady drumbeat of class warfare, that rails against the evil "1%" while seeking to redistribute the...
The Republican challenger speaks an uncomfortable truth — that it's hard enough to beat an incumbent president without almost half the electorate feeling dependent on him for some kind of government benefit.
The conveniently timed release of a video taped in May and leaked by Mother Jones in September has the usual suspects in the mainstream media chattering that Mitt Romney's candidacy for president is now doomed.
Even if it is true, you just can't say that 47% of Americans are dependent on government and that they're hard to reach politically because of that.
In one clip, Romney describes how his campaign would not try to appeal to "47% of the people" who will vote for President Obama "no matter what."
They are, he says, "dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them."
No doubt there are people who are dependent on government due to circumstances beyond their control. But it's been a main thrust of this administration to make as many people dependent on government as possible — witness ObamaCare — and its motives haven't always been pure.
This is the administration from which comes a steady drumbeat of class warfare, that rails against the evil "1%" while seeking to redistribute their wealth, that supports the mob action of Occupy Wall Street, attacks those preaching personal responsibility as asking people to "fend for themselves" and tells the people who roll up their sleeves rather than hold out their hands, well, "you didn't build that."
Romney did not dispute that many Americans need and deserve the benefits they get. He merely recognized the fact that it's hard to run against an administration that says electing Romney would place those benefits in jeopardy, an administration that raids Medicare of $700 billion to fund ObamaCare while its supporters run ads showing a Paul Ryan look-alike pushing granny over a cliff.
(more)The conveniently timed release of a video taped in May and leaked by Mother Jones in September has the usual suspects in the mainstream media chattering that Mitt Romney's candidacy for president is now doomed.
Even if it is true, you just can't say that 47% of Americans are dependent on government and that they're hard to reach politically because of that.
In one clip, Romney describes how his campaign would not try to appeal to "47% of the people" who will vote for President Obama "no matter what."
They are, he says, "dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them."
No doubt there are people who are dependent on government due to circumstances beyond their control. But it's been a main thrust of this administration to make as many people dependent on government as possible — witness ObamaCare — and its motives haven't always been pure.
This is the administration from which comes a steady drumbeat of class warfare, that rails against the evil "1%" while seeking to redistribute their wealth, that supports the mob action of Occupy Wall Street, attacks those preaching personal responsibility as asking people to "fend for themselves" and tells the people who roll up their sleeves rather than hold out their hands, well, "you didn't build that."
Romney did not dispute that many Americans need and deserve the benefits they get. He merely recognized the fact that it's hard to run against an administration that says electing Romney would place those benefits in jeopardy, an administration that raids Medicare of $700 billion to fund ObamaCare while its supporters run ads showing a Paul Ryan look-alike pushing granny over a cliff.
Fact is he can do nothing to convince many in the 47% to vote for him....
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Top points on the math though.
• No, I wasn’t voting for him anyway (what I would’ve chosen).
• Yes, I wasn’t going to vote for him before, but now I am.
The national debt can be likened unto a massive tractor-double-trailer truck speeding down an Interstate highway at 70mph, and heading the wrong way. Do you think that it’s possible to simply slam the truck into reverse and instantly, without any transition, go 70mph the other direction (the right way), without first slowing down, stopping, turning around, and coming back up to speed in the proper direction? Even if that were physically possible, it would be disastrous, killing the driver and destroying whatever cargo the truck was carrying through sheer G-forces! The truck itself would self-destruct if that could even be done (which it can’t), and even if iit didn’t, it’d be going against the traffic and subject to a head-o...
The national debt can be likened unto a massive tractor-double-trailer truck speeding down an Interstate highway at 70mph, and heading the wrong way. Do you think that it’s possible to simply slam the truck into reverse and instantly, without any transition, go 70mph the other direction (the right way), without first slowing down, stopping, turning around, and coming back up to speed in the proper direction? Even if that were physically possible, it would be disastrous, killing the driver and destroying whatever cargo the truck was carrying through sheer G-forces! The truck itself would self-destruct if that could even be done (which it can’t), and even if iit didn’t, it’d be going against the traffic and subject to a head-on collision!
No, once the driver realizes that he’s going the wrong way, first he has to find an interchange (not an “Exit Only” one), then slow down into the lane leading to the off ramp, then take the off ramp (slowing down further), then crossing over the overpass or under the underpass (at which point the truck’s basically going 0mph relative to the Interstate), then get back onto the on ramp of the other direction, then get into the merging and slowly accelerate back up to speed. This takes time. It cannot be done instantaneously without causing far more harm than good, if it were even possible.
Though, in this case, we got Grover Norquist and the GOP Congress who traitorously signed his seditious pledge, who are doing all they can to keep the truck barreling down the highway the wrong way, and even speed it up further. They’re in the passenger seat, fighting him for control of the steering wheel and both pedals.
GWB forced the issue. Every western country is facing the same thing, they all blame Bush. Why can't you see the truth. He even claimed the responsibility, as well as admitting to drink.
If western governments as well as the US had not spent and created this debt you would probably not be able to make your comments as you would be out of work and have no money for power or internet connection, as well as no gas for the auto. So be thankful that the debt has saved you and now the hard bit. paying for it. But you are not alone in that, everyone is paying back and that makes for very slow progress. But don't blame Obama, he has done what every country that still has a working economy did he spent and spent some more. Those that followed the right wing way of doing nothing are having major problems and America can be thankful it is not one of them. Don't forget the great depression was extended by refusal to spend by governments. When they eventually started to spend big the economies improved very quickly.
Not many moderates I know of have been endorsed by the communist party
Obama 2012
And the 'Yes' voters had better put down their well-used Kool-Aid cups and open their eyes before we wake up one morning and there's a uniform at the door with a portrait of the Dear Leader to be hung in our living rooms.
Obama will go to great lengths to ensure his victory. It is our duty to make sure that'll never happen.
Just like with Akin. In his case, the problem isn’t that he made a “gaffe” (he didn’t), The problem is that he said publicly what the GOP normally only says and thinks privately.
Unlike Akin, Romney made these remarks at a private event. It was never intended to be public. He was saying exactly what his fellow Republican higher-ups actually believe. If they had disagreed, one or more of them would’ve come forward by now (remember, this video was recorded months ago).