Romney on 47% comments: I was 'completely wrong'

rocket88 said:

"Paulbots" "Randroids" (kinda like that one).

You can't say "Romneybot" because someone might think you're talking about Mitt himself.

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I thought up one of my own and it's even seasonal: Romney Zombie. That's trademarked BTW.

AdamT said:

It just establishes, once again, that Romney will say absolutely anything to get elected. To the extent that anything he says is credible (not much) I would think the statement he made when he thought no one was listening is more likely his real opinion, as opposed to the opinion he offered after affirming the earlier opinion, given after his comments hurt his standing in the race.

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Kettle, black....

You gotta to be joking if you think Obama deals in anything that is even remotely fact based.. Obama is a complete moron as we all saw.. and we see the economy and the lies..

didnt Erkle Obama say he was going to cut the deficit in half?... shall I continue?

Travis007 said:

Kettle, black....

You gotta to be joking if you think Obama deals in anything that is even remotely fact based.

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Whereas romney is aware of the fact that he supports all the positions he's against.

AliHajiSheik said:

Do you really believe that Romney would meet with the leaders of the House and Senate every week?

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If "House" and "Senate" referred to the name of hedge funds or private equity firms, he would definitely meet with those leaders.

tessaesque said:

I believe he'd attempt to involve all parties in creating and passing legislation, something I also believe Obama has failed miserably at accomplishing.

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Yes, probably.

PeteEU said:

Yea etch-sketch Romney continues. Soon he will be 100% for Obamacare again.

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He already is Romney Care is equvilant to Obamacare. Not exactly but close enough. And he has already stated he supports his own plan.

MaggieD said:

I think it was a stupid thing to say. I can't imagine why he said it. It's pretty common knowledge (even by your article) that he was referring to the 47% (actually, according to your article, it's 46%) of American taxpayers who pay no Federal income tax. But it's still completely wrong. I'm interested to see your link where he originally said, according to you, that he "stands by his comments."

I don't think it's going to effect anyone's decision, but it's certainly a great "gotcha" for the media and those who wouldn't vote for him come hell or high water.

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He said it because he is Slinky Romney and will say anything he wants whenever he wants and expect people not to notice./

Dr_Patrick said:

I'm just curious how Romney supporters feel about this considering he said earlier that he stands by his comments and they, for the most part, agreed with his assessment. Does this waver your support of him at all?

I personally think it's a preemptive measure for the next debate because Obama will most likely bring it up.

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Romney's stupidity in saying this is equaled only by the stupidity of his reaction to it. If I were a Romney supporter, I'd be alarmed that my desired candidate is a walking PR disaster.

He should never have said it where he did. Everything he said at the high-value dinner where it was taped should have been carefully scripted. The attendees certainly did not need him to reassure them, he has nothing but contempt for the Other 98%.

But........

Once he did stick his foot in his mouth, "that was supposed to be a private dinner" was a colossal error. It admits he says one thing to the public and another behind closed doors. Worse, it co-opts the most heinous interpretation of his remarks as if they got him dead to rights.

Now he's trying to step off. YIKES! He should STFU, and when Obama uses it in a debate, have a few zingers to deflect it.

Romney's campaign may as well be run by the Keystone Kops, and if you are a Romneyophile, you should be alarmed that this signal's he would fail majorly as a president, if elected. You guys appear to me to have your own little Jimmy Carter here.

AliHajiSheik said:

Do you really believe that Romney would meet with the leaders of the House and Senate every week?

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Heaven forbid this happens but if it did he would meet with leaders all right all the ones that agree with him

I posted this elsewhere. I think Romney is going to keep his "plan" off the presses so he can deny whatever he wants claim its out of context or the product of the "liberal press" including Fox and Lamebaugh. He may think that he can then say whatever and no one will remember what he really said or he can just deny it. Plausible denialbility. Too bad there is a bigger video and audio trail out there to easily come back and bite him.

American said:

Imagine Obama making such an admission of error. Hmmm, NOT!

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Except that he was saying what he really thought with the original comment. The admission of "error" was only because of the political consequences.

solletica said:

Whereas romney is aware of the fact that he supports all the positions he's against.

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yea whatever... your post was very deep lol

wolfman24 said:

Heaven forbid this happens but if it did he would meet with leaders all right all the ones that agree with him

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yes maybe Romney can give the ole Obama line " I won so its time for the Dems to get in the back of the bus"..

Travis007 said:

yea whatever... your post was very deep lol

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It's about romney, so it doesn't need to be deep .

Pinkie said:

Romney's stupidity in saying this is equaled only by the stupidity of his reaction to it. If I were a Romney supporter, I'd be alarmed that my desired candidate is a walking PR disaster.

He should never have said it where he did. Everything he said at the high-value dinner where it was taped should have been carefully scripted. The attendees certainly did not need him to reassure them, he has nothing but contempt for the Other 98%.

But........

Once he did stick his foot in his mouth, "that was supposed to be a private dinner" was a colossal error. It admits he says one thing to the public and another behind closed doors. Worse, it co-opts the most heinous interpretation of his remarks as if they got him dead to rights.

Now he's trying to step off. YIKES! He should STFU, and when Obama uses it in a debate, have a few zingers to deflect it.

Romney's campaign may as well be run by the Keystone Kops, and if you are a Romneyophile, you should be alarmed that this signal's he would fail majorly as a president, if elected. You guys appear to me to have your own little Jimmy Carter here.

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The sad thing is, if Obama tries to use it in the next debate, people are going to say "He already said he was completely wrong in saying it. What more do you want?" It was kind of a clever move for Romney to do what he did. However, it would have been even better had he not said it in the first place.

solletica said:

It's about romney, so it doesn't need to be deep .

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if you want to make convex you can comment on Erkle Obama.. that scumbag is a proven idgit..

Dr_Patrick said:

The sad thing is, if Obama tries to use it in the next debate, people are going to say "He already said he was completely wrong in saying it. What more do you want?" It was kind of a clever move for Romney to do what he did. However, it would have been even better had he not said it in the first place.

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I'm gonna have to disagree. IMO, you cannot use "clever move" and "Romney" in the same sentence.

Travis007 said:

if you want to make convex you can comment on Erkle Obama.. that scumbag is a proven idgit..

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Obama has a recurring case of Spectacular Foot In Mouth Disease, but when he isn't down with it, he's (usually) a fabulous public speaker.

This is not a morality measurement, though I will be voting (against Romney). Remember, Hitler was also a fabulous public speaker.

AdamT said:

Obama is certainly a rock of consistency in comparison to Romney.

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Like hell he is... In this very election cycle he suddenly had 2 major changes of heart... that appealed to focus group voting blocks in battleground states... changes of heart that is... :roll:

You can go through the list of supposed flip-flops from Romney and see how many of them are from things he said or did 2 decades ago, many of which aren't flip-flops but applying stands he took on one issue and applying them to a similar but different issue that came up later...

Also, for each of them, you could match them 3-to-1 with things Obama DID, not just things he said, which contradict all of his positons taken on numerous issues...

Pinkie said:

I'm gonna have to disagree. IMO, you cannot use "clever move" and "Romney" in the same sentence.

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While I don't support Romney or agree with his policies, I don't think it's wise to underestimate him. He's definitely not a stupid guy.

Pinkie said:

Obama has a recurring case of Spectacular Foot In Mouth Disease, but when he isn't down with it, he's (usually) a fabulous public speaker.

This is not a morality measurement, though I will be voting (against Romney). Remember, Hitler was also a fabulous public speaker.

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You mean you like "Obamaprompter'?... Erkle Obama is a total empty suit radical marxist scumbag...

Travis007 said:

You mean you like "Obamaprompter'?... Erkle Obama is a total empty suit radical marxist scumbag...

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Do you ever offer anything of substance to discussions? Thus far all I've seen are empty re-used insults for Obama. Yes, we get it, you don't like him.

I expect the magical Etch-a-Sketch to be working overtime, round the clock for the next month

Pinkie said:

I'm gonna have to disagree. IMO, you cannot use "clever move" and "Romney" in the same sentence.

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Kind of an odd statement, in the wake of Romney outdebating the guy you've stated you'll be voting for...

I mean I can understand why you'd think a guy who got a Baker Scholarship for finishing in the top 5% of his Harvard Business School class, while also concurrently finishing cum laude getting his JD from Harvard Law School, who then shot right up through the corporate ladder (which most people find too hard to be able to do over the entire course of their careers) to executive positions in major companies in no time, to starting up his own company that changed industry standards and earned him $250M to the point where he was able to work out a deal when he left the company that he still makes profit from deals of theirs which they make using his techniques... who then turned around a fiscal crisis in one of the oldest and most liberal states in the union as a conservative, and passed landmark legislation as not being "clever" (okay I really can't, I'm being sarcastic)...

but when Romney waited until he knew he had the last comment, and chose that as the right time to lay into Obama about his absymal record, that was clever... when the loud crashing sound went on in the background and Romney kept on speaking through it while Obama was turning around panicking, was clever...

Clearly now, in the wake of that performance, any rational mind would say "you know what, I was wrong, this guy is pretty clever, I didn't give him enough credit for that"...

So which is it? Are you a rational mind?

Travis007 said:

You mean you like "Obamaprompter'?... Erkle Obama is a total empty suit radical marxist scumbag...

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You can not like Obama and still recognize his strengths, unless you are a partisan hack.