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Mitt Romney has had a tough week trying to explain secretly recorded remarks he
made at a fundraiser last May,
in which he said forty seven percent of americans don't pay federal income taxes
and think of themselves as victims. They see themselves as victims. He now says that
he's really for the hundred percent in America, is anybody going to buy that
given that dim vision
of half the country? He seemed to write off, he didn't say well these are
people who are in hard times but they want to get out of our times, he was
basically saying
they're forty seven percent, they're victims, they feel entitled and they're never
going to vote for me anyway so i'm not going to worry about them.
if your quote "dependent on government" which includes senior citizens
getting medicare and the like, well then I can't really now expect your vote, it just,
it was a blow. People seeing themselves as victims and
dependent on the government and all that, it's not true
and therefore
very unfortunate. One strategist who's been involved in a lot of these campaigns
said when he saw that video it was the first time he thought he was seeing the
real Romney
that's a problem in your most uh... troubled moment is the one people think
is the most authentic moment. This is a man who has said a lot of things that cause
voters out there to go woah,
he doesn't get me
at all including the forty seven percent. This is a defining moment in the campaign
who's the real Mitt Romney?
The one who said that he didn't have to worry about forty seven percent of
the people, or the one who told us at a Univision meeting
that he wanted to be the president for one hundred percent
of americans? The problem is that back in february if you remember in an interview with
CNN, he also said that he was not concerned about the very poor, so
honestly as a journalist he has to get out of that box.
He offered political analysis but policy analysis on forty seven percent of this country
including a lot of republican voters
people who receive entitlements through social security and medicare that they
paid into
he's talking about
this group of people will not take personal responsibility, it betrayed a
lack of understanding of how the government works, how america works, the american
work ethic. Do you think he needs to go beyond saying that this was inelegant,
to saying that he was flat wrong?