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October 05, 2012 05:39 PM UTC

Are They Going To Let Romney Etch-a-Sketch "47%" Away?

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  • by: Colorado Pols

CBS News–fuggedaboutit!

Mitt Romney, trying to distance himself from perhaps his most damaging campaign moment, said Thursday that his infamous “47 percent” remarks were “completely wrong.”

“Clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you are going to say something that doesn’t come out right. In this case I said something that’s just completely wrong,” Romney told Sean Hannity on Fox News. “And I absolutely believe, however, that my life has shown that I care about 100 percent. And that has been demonstrated throughout my life. And this whole campaign is about the 100 percent. When I become president it will be about helping the 100 percent.”

A leaked videotape last month revealed Romney telling wealthy donors at a Boca Raton, Fla. fundraiser that 47 percent of the country, President Obama’s supporters, don’t pay income taxes; consider themselves victims; feel entitled to government handouts, and will never be persuaded to take personal responsibility for their lives…

Following what’s broadly considered a Mitt Romney victory in this week’s debate at the University of Denver, it makes perfect sense that Romney would try to deal with his severely damaging remarks about 47% of Americans who “believe they are victims” before that afterglow fades. Of course it’s the moment to do this. Romney’s heretofore response on the questions raised by that video, that his point was “inelegantly stated” but essentially correct, had completely failed to quell the resentment over what he plainly said. Recorded in secret, before the friendliest of audiences, these remarks have been firmly planted in the national consciousness as reflective of how Mitt Romney really feels–regardless of what he says in public. Absent something even more dramatic, this video could well have been the beginning of the end of the race.

And folks, it still may be. Romney’s debate performance was not so commanding that it allows him to simply erase an issue that dominated the headlines in the weeks prior, that Romney had explicitly defended after its exposure, and was never even addressed in the debate that has supposedly given him all this newfound space to morph back into “Moderate Mitt.” In addition, post-debate fact checking has done much to undermine Romney’s oratorical victory.

Like we hinted above, if we were giving Romney advice, we can’t say we’d tell him not to try this. Resolving this seriously damaging incident on Romney’s terms would be a big help, and would underscore the folly of President Barack Obama’s failure to attack Romney in the forum where it would have been most appropriate–Wednesday’s debate on economic policy.

But it’s also exactly what you would expect from a guy who will say anything to win.

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36 thoughts on “Are They Going To Let Romney Etch-a-Sketch “47%” Away?”

  1. The only mistake was letting the hired help hear what they really believe. What Romney says now doesn’t change things ; the rich already know he’s one of them, and the cat’s out of the bag: we plebians know the same thing.

  2. “Clint Eastwood’s Chair could have done a better job than Obama at the debate”

    See it’s called a debate.  Were the facts inaccurate the President had the opportunity to point this out in real time and rebut them.  Noticed polls today in Florida and Virginia now put Romney ahead and only down one in Ohio.

    It was a bad night and hopefully the new unemployment numbers will help

    1. Are you Scott Tipton’s nephew or something? I can’t imagine how else you’d get a job with his campaign, since you’re clearly the dumbest fucking guy on the blog.

  3. have been saying “wrong” things about half the population for a long, long time. They say it “off the cuff” because they can, because they wrote the lines, because they perpetuate this class warfare.

    In any case, it is about more than being “wrong” about a number. It is about long held world views that have influenced policy decisions and directions

  4. I’m not going to bother looking for the video of this interview. But Hannity was one of the FNC talking heads who fully supported Romney and completely endorsed these remarks when the video came out, yet the chances he challenged Mitt even the slightest on this about-face are nil. Our own A-BOT can also be counted on to never mention it again, despite his strong “hell yeah” kind of remark he gave at the time.

  6. bullshit. His whole “business” was about taking, about “harvesting” all the resources and assets of a business after getting $ from loans and taking those businesses into bankruptcy, laying off many thousands after lowering their pay for the last months of their employment.

    As someone who was actually in business as long as he claims he was I am offended that he calls himself a business person. He has been nothing but a parasite attaching himself to a host and killing it to benefit himself and his investors

  7. opinions are not right or wrong.  They can be based on falsehoods, but they’re not right or wrong.

    Wrong, no.

    Revealing and disturbing, yes.

  8. Pols is off the mark on this remark.

    The damage is already done.  It is like having something on the front page of the paper and then the retraction buried deep inside later.  Romney can’t walk back his statements at this point without further damaging his credibility.

    Now he’s brought it up like his tax returns and Obama didn’t have to lift a finger.

    I don’t see that as folly at all.

    1. A megalomaniac and pathological liar is my take. The man is driven by some deep-seated sickness regarding something he has to prove to his father. They make creepy movies about guys like that.

  11. He admits what he said was wrong, and Pols looks for a way to attack.

    You are a bunch of ridiculous bitter partisans. I can’t wait until you’re forced to admit President Romney is helping this country get back on its feet.

        1. I understand. I was born a Cubs fan. We got nothing but losing and more losing.

          But, thankfully, I learned a thing or two about winning elections. And we’re gonna win.

    4. You just blindly parrot whatever your masters tell you and flip-flop along with them.  The ultimate follower with no original thought of his own. What a pathetic toadie you are.

    6. “President Romney.”

      Why don’t YOU admit that what YOU said was wrong? Remember when YOU wrote this?

      You know what?

      DAMN RIGHT. Mitt is saying what needs to be said. We have an enormous dependent class in this country, and as Mitt has said before, there is already a safety net for them. We won’t pull out of the funk we’re in by focusing all of our energies on the people who are failing.

      The best course for America, and that INCLUDES the 47% who pay no federal income tax, is to focus our energy on success and encouraging success. Mitt believes that the best way forward is neither cutting programs or raising taxes, but by GROWING THE ECONOMY. Economic growth gives the Republicans our success while providing more for the dependent class, too. Democrats should fight Mitt, but not too much, because you and all of your precious programs will be better off under a Romney administration.

      Then, only ONE DAY LATER, you say this:

      These are not the same groups

      When Romney says that 47% of the people pay no taxes, and 47% of the people are a lock for Obama, these are not necessarily the same groups of people. The fact is there are millions of voters who don’t pay any income tax, so a promise to reduce their income tax burden doesn’t mean anything to them. It’s also true that most of the country has made up its mind, and there’s only a small number of undecided voters left. Neither of these are racist or arrogant. They’re just facts.

      And now, you say

      He admits what he said was wrong…

      To summarize, YOU, A-BOT, thought his comments were DAMN RIGHT, but that he wasn’t talking about the same groups of people even when he was, and he’s wrong.

      You flip flop as hard as Willard. No wonder you’re his boy.

      1. I wanted to post the Gopher talking out of both sides of his mouth simultaneously, but I couldn’t bear to read over his stuff a second time to prove it.

        Thanks for doing the burdensome chore of researching his nonsense.

    7. after doubling down on it for weeks.

      Read all your party buddies blasting the ‘moocher class’ that is half of America.  On every editorial page in the letters across the nation.  Fool.  

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