POPCORN MOMENT.
MITT'S CAMPAIGN CONTINUES TO IMPLODE WITH GAFFES.
HOWEVER HE HAS REALLY PUT HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH WITH THE COMMENTS CAUGHT ON THE VIDEO ABOVE.
ROMNEY NEEDS TO HAVE SEVERAL SEATS.
HE IS DELUSIONAL WHEN IT COMES TO THE PLIGHT OF HARD WORKING MIDDLE CLASS AND STRUGGLING AMERICANS.
Deets below:
Via The Guardian:
Mitt Romney was caught up in a fresh and damaging secret video controversy on Monday night, only hours after his campaign team tacitly admitted it was struggling and was going to have revise its campaign strategy.
The video, showing Romney at a closed-doors fundraising event, captures him dismissing 47% of the nation as government-dependent. "My job is not to worry about those people," he says. He adds: "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
The release of the video, on the liberal Mother Jones website, came at an awkward moment for the Romney campaign amid reports of internal strife and bickering among his campaign managers.
The Republican presidential candidate is also running behind Barack Obama in the polls, albeit only by 3%, after a lacklustre Republican convention in August.
His campaign team announced on Monday morning that it would recalibrate its strategy and that, instead of focusing on criticising Obama, it will begin to set out "specifics" about what policies Romney will pursue if he wins the White House.
But only hours later the new strategy was overtaken by the recording of Romney posted on the Mother Jones site. It has the potential to alienate a lot of independent voters who will cringe at a potential president being so dismissive of the poor.
The Obama campaign team described it as "shocking".
The Romney campaign did not deny that the video is authentic and insisted only that the candidate cares about all Americans. "Mitt Romney wants to help all Americans struggling in the Obama economy," said spokeswoman Gail Gitcho.
In the video, Romney said:
"There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. "All right, there are 47% 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 healthcare, to food, to housing, to you-name-it," he said. He added: "These are people who pay no income tax."
Apart from offending a large part of the population, the comment is also inaccurate. The 47% are not people who pay no income tax and encompasses sections of the population who have earned their entitlements.
