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Did The 47% Video of Mitt Romney Kill His Chances of Winning?

Did the 47% video save President Obama from losing?


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He still said that 47% of the voting public were "dependent victims." Whether that's policy or not...well, you can debate that. But he basically started by insulting half the country no matter how you cut it.

Every politician has done the same.
 
I know a SHSU professor in Texas that is a tree-hugger. She makes Rachel Maddow look like Rush Limbaugh. She is a real sweetheart who would give the shirt off he back but she is a bit too liberal for my tastes. Anyways, she had one of her neighbor's shoot her "Vote for Obama," yard sign with a shotgun, not once but twice. Once, she witnessed him get out of his truck, walk into her yard and blast it point blank. She called the cops but was left un-assisted. They suggested that she remove her Obama sign to avoid further trouble.

Okay, I shouldn't laugh - but I'll admit it, I did laugh.

You should come to NH. Since the Libertarians moved her in droves a few years ago, every town has at least 5 speed limit signs with a half dozen bullet holes in them. We're trying to compete with our neighbor to the west, Vermont, where every town has at least a half dozen Planned Parenthood offices.
 
Okay, I shouldn't laugh - but I'll admit it, I did laugh.

You should come to NH. Since the Libertarians moved her in droves a few years ago, every town has at least 5 speed limit signs with a half dozen bullet holes in them. We're trying to compete with our neighbor to the west, Vermont, where every town has at least a half dozen Planned Parenthood offices.

I laughed too. But just a little. ;)
 
I believe he was right in saying he wasn't worried about that 47% because he wasn't going to get those votes anyway. But people want to make more of it than there is. Or did, we are talking 6 years ago.

So in other words, when you referred to the 47% as "non-workers" in post #44.....you didn't really mean it......riiiiiiight.......
 
I believe he was right in saying he wasn't worried about that 47% because he wasn't going to get those votes anyway. But people want to make more of it than there is. Or did, we are talking 6 years ago.

2 years ago. But that's what the thread is about.
 
Correct - people on public assistance isn't the reason for the financial condition of the goverment - politicians who pander to them and encourage dependence upon public assistance is the main reason for the financial condition of the government. When you have politicians ignoring fixes to the economy and doing the hard lifting and instead playing up increases in unemployment eligibility, increases in food stamp distribution, resisting fixes to the social safety net and instead giving taxpayers a "holiday" from their commitment to those programs, you create a society that becomes increasingly unwilling to do what's necessary to get the country back on sustainable financial ground.

Greetings, CJ. :2wave:

My main concern has always been what happens when they have no choice but to be responsible for themselves and they honestly don't know how? Schools aren't teaching Home Ec and other programs like that any more, it seems, and few know how to even bake bread to stay alive. That is the only reason I volunteer to teach people how to can and dry foods for future use, and CJ, the classes are getting so large that it might become impossible to help everyone that wants to learn, unless more people volunteer. Math and Engineering are important, but it doesn't feed hungry little kids when there aren't enough jobs to earn money, and the Moms I teach are so happy to learn that some have cried. Even the poor worry about the future, and what it might be like for them and their families when government isn't there to help them. We've been very fortunate so far, but our $17 trillion dollar...and climbing...debt will one day catch up with us, I fear, because a rise in interest rates will take money away from those that need help. Sad...
 
So in other words, when you referred to the 47% as "non-workers" in post #44.....you didn't really mean it......riiiiiiight.......

I said he did, and it was taken out of context and used as a faux insult belly hooed by the left.
 
Greetings, CJ. :2wave:

My main concern has always been what happens when they have no choice but to be responsible for themselves and they honestly don't know how? Schools aren't teaching Home Ec and other programs like that any more, it seems, and few know how to even bake bread to stay alive. That is the only reason I volunteer to teach people how to can and dry foods for future use, and CJ, the classes are getting so large that it might become impossible to help everyone that wants to learn, unless more people volunteer. Math and Engineering are important, but it doesn't feed hungry little kids when there aren't enough jobs to earn money, and the Moms I teach are so happy to learn that some have cried. Even the poor worry about the future, and what it might be like for them and their families when government isn't there to help them. We've been very fortunate so far, but our $17 trillion dollar...and climbing...debt will one day catch up with us, I fear, because a rise in interest rates will take money away from those that need help. Sad...

Good afternoon Lady P - hope all is well

You're right, of course. But the political class is confident that pushing the problem down the road will let them carry on until they retire and it becomes someone else's problem, namely your childrens' problem. My generation - the baby boomers - is the most selfish and self-centered generation ever to live and I'm ashamed to be part of it.
 
I was listening to a liberal radio talk show host and he made a statement that I'm not sure I believe. He said President Obama was losing until the video surfaced. What do you say?

I wouldn't say that was a single game changer but it didn't help. I personally think the get out the democrat vote efforts by republican officials in swing states by making it just a tad more difficult for democrats to vote did more to hurt Romney and especially fired up minority voters.

Plus in an era of downsizing, compensation cuts and outsourcing jobs to the third world while CEOs got 7 figure bonuses and golden parachutes, Romney simply came across as having his heart on the side of corporate America and the culture of corporate greed while pandering to average income workers who wake up every day worried about their financial security. Meanwhile, despite missteps Obama came across as having his heart with average people trying to put food on the table, send their kids to college, not have the credit card companies arbitrarily raise interest rates on the credit cards or banks sock it to them with penalties for accidentally spending to much with their debit cards when the banks KNEW they didn't have enough in the accounts but authorized the transaction anyway just so they could wipe out their next paycheck when the bills start to bounce.

Hurricane Sandy also hurt Romney a little as well because it took the news off of Benghazi right before election day, while Obama did a decent job at responding to the disaster, something Christie even felt compelled to truthfully acknowledge.
 
Good afternoon Lady P - hope all is well

You're right, of course. But the political class is confident that pushing the problem down the road will let them carry on until they retire and it becomes someone else's problem, namely your childrens' problem. My generation - the baby boomers - is the most selfish and self-centered generation ever to live and I'm ashamed to be part of it.

Many of the baby boomers had parents that suffered during the Great Depression, and it was probably the parents' desire that their children would never have to do without the many things they did, so they gave them as much as they could. Did this spoil them? Maybe, but it was a natural reaction to try and make their children's lives as comfortable as they could, I guess. I do worry that many, but certainly not all, boomers don't seem to have the same concern for their children and grandchildren, though - look at the debt load they are leaving for their descendants, and yet unborn children, to grapple with. :eek:

I worked outside a little today - it was a beautiful day, and I'm ready for a lot more to come finally! :thumbs:
 
2 years ago. But that's what the thread is about.

I know, but it was an off the cuff comment. Not like when Clinton pointed his finger at us and said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Then got busted and out pokered by an intern.
 
No. Doubt that anyone who voted for Obama did so because of that comment and doubt that it motivated anyone to vote. Other issues.
 
You are. You're turning a brief rant regarding the campaign into a hatred of poor people by a mean old cold hearted businessman. You're turning him into the Scrooge just because he painted his political enemies in a bad light. If we did that every time a politician complained about the votes they cannot get, every politician ever would be the Scrooge.

You're making a mountain of a molehill, as a result of and to serve political bias.
yea
quit using mitt's actual words against him, as if he actually made those comments [/sarcasm for those who need it]
 
I wouldn't say that was a single game changer but it didn't help. I personally think the get out the democrat vote efforts by republican officials in swing states by making it just a tad more difficult for democrats to vote did more to hurt Romney and especially fired up minority voters.

Plus in an era of downsizing, compensation cuts and outsourcing jobs to the third world while CEOs got 7 figure bonuses and golden parachutes, Romney simply came across as having his heart on the side of corporate America and the culture of corporate greed while pandering to average income workers who wake up every day worried about their financial security. Meanwhile, despite missteps Obama came across as having his heart with average people trying to put food on the table, send their kids to college, not have the credit card companies arbitrarily raise interest rates on the credit cards or banks sock it to them with penalties for accidentally spending to much with their debit cards when the banks KNEW they didn't have enough in the accounts but authorized the transaction anyway just so they could wipe out their next paycheck when the bills start to bounce.

Hurricane Sandy also hurt Romney a little as well because it took the news off of Benghazi right before election day, while Obama did a decent job at responding to the disaster, something Christie even felt compelled to truthfully acknowledge.


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nailed it
 
What did it for me was his binders full of women. What a cruel, cruel man to take a bunch of women, zap them with his special republican miniaturizing ray gun and stuff them all into a bunch of binders.

I think I recal reading in a psychology magazine that people who start off with this sort of behavior often escaslate to more heinous acts,so I didn't vote for him.
 
I know, but it was an off the cuff comment. Not like when Clinton pointed his finger at us and said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Then got busted and out pokered by an intern.

I don't know, usually off the cuff comments don't go on for a full paragraph.

Just be glad Clinton pointed his finger at you. If it had been Weiner....[shudders]
 
What did it for me was his binders full of women. What a cruel, cruel man to take a bunch of women, zap them with his special republican miniaturizing ray gun and stuff them all into a bunch of binders.

I think I recal reading in a psychology magazine that people who start off with this sort of behavior often escaslate to more heinous acts,so I didn't vote for him.

I thought it was a special Mormon ray gun. It only works if you're wearing the magic underwear.
 
I was listening to a liberal radio talk show host and he made a statement that I'm not sure I believe. He said President Obama was losing until the video surfaced. What do you say?

I don't know if that is true, but the comment certainly didn't help and likely put the final nail in the coffin. Obama was beatable had there been a viable candidate running against him.
 
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