Romney seeks to limit damage from remark about firing people

[RandySF]

HUDSON, N.H. — Mitt Romney sought to limit damage Monday from a morning comment about liking to "fire people" which he said was "taken out of context."

Romney, the former head of a private equity firm that sought to turn around troubled companies, said he was only talking about President Obama's healthcare plan and that political opponents were only doing what he expected them to do with the remark.

"As you know, I was speaking about insurance companies and the need to be able to make a choice," he told reporters after his tour of the Gilchrist Metal Fabricating factory.

"You saw I was talking about insurance companies. We like to be able to get rid of insurance companies that don't give us the services we need. I don't want to live in a world in which we have ObamaCare telling us which insurance we can have to have, which doctor we can have, which hospital we have to go to," he said.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/203137-romney-seeks-to-limit-damage-from-remark-about-firing-people

[Angry Dragon]

1. 'What we have here, is a failure to communicate'

[VWolf]

2. Too late, asshat. n/t

[roguevalley]

7. apparently, on another thread he has 'loser stink' all over him. :)

[oh08dem]

3. He should just stop talking....

Every time he brings up the Affordable Health Care Act people will ask him "Didn't you do the same thing in Massachusetts?" and he'll have to find another bullshit rationale for passing it to appease the teabagger base. ....

On second thought, keep talking Mitt!

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Betcha $10,000 he can't stop talking.

[tallahasseedem]

9. NO!!!

He needs to KEEP talking!

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Does he even know how insurance works? My insurance company most definitely tells

me which doctors I can go to (if I want them to pay for the services) and which hospitals to go to.

[gratuitous]

6. And try "firing" your insurance company

Because you find out their service stinks, but when did you find out? That's right, when you made a claim for insurance benefits. So now you want to "fire" your insurance company and hire another one? One that will cover your pre-existing condition? Good fucking luck on that one, pally.

Romney's either so stupid he needs someone to remind him to breathe, or he thinks we're that stupid. Either way, it hardly qualifies him to be president.

[subterranean]

11. He's not stupid, just a liar.

Romney doesn't believe most of what he says, but he's so desperate to be president, he's willing to say anything. I think even most Republicans can see through his phony act.

[ladywnch]

8. why do I all of a sudden see Richard Geer tap dancing in the movie version of Chicago when I read

piece? He reminds of Geer tap dancing for his life in court.....


just sayin'

[subterranean]

10. More blatant lies from Romney.

"ObamaCare" does none of the things he said it does. He knows that, of course, because Romneycare was the blueprint for it.