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Somebody surreptitiously taped Mitt Romney speaking freely at a private fundraiser. Mitt let his hair down and shared his innermost views on the country and the people, about how too many of us have grown dependent and stupid under the overprotective hand of Uncle Sam and liberal governance.
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"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent 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 health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax. ... [My] job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
-- Mitt Romney
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The way he sees is, a good Republican like himself has to play for the five, ten percent who are truly independent. This doesn't explain why Republicans have been as dominant in American politics and presidential elections as they have been since the 1970s. More than anything, it sounds like a loser who is spitefully licking his wounds and is making himself comfortable with the prospect of just being another also-ran in the great sweep of American history. Which would be silly. The man has hundreds of millions of dollars behind his campaign, and a good chunk of the electorate think that Obama is a muslim terrorist, and then there is this flatlining economy. Ronald Reagan would be running a lot stronger instead of sounding like - dare I say it? - a victim.
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"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent 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 health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax. ... [My] job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
-- Mitt Romney
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The way he sees is, a good Republican like himself has to play for the five, ten percent who are truly independent. This doesn't explain why Republicans have been as dominant in American politics and presidential elections as they have been since the 1970s. More than anything, it sounds like a loser who is spitefully licking his wounds and is making himself comfortable with the prospect of just being another also-ran in the great sweep of American history. Which would be silly. The man has hundreds of millions of dollars behind his campaign, and a good chunk of the electorate think that Obama is a muslim terrorist, and then there is this flatlining economy. Ronald Reagan would be running a lot stronger instead of sounding like - dare I say it? - a victim.
