Mitt Romney's Latest Excuse for His 47 Percent Remarks Is a Doozy

[babylonsister]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/mitt-romney-latest-excuse-47-percent-remarks


Mitt Romney's Latest Excuse for His 47 Percent Remarks Is a Doozy
You won't believe who he's blaming now.

—By David Corn
| Tue Sep. 30, 2014 12:15 PM EDT

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Now Romney has gone further in denying responsibility for the remark, blaming the 47 percent fiasco on the fellow who tossed him the question. Here's the relevant excerpt from Leibovich's piece:

"I was talking to one of my political advisers," Romney continued, "and I said: 'If I had to do this again, I'd insist that you literally had a camera on me at all times"—essentially employing his own tracker, as opposition researchers call them. "I want to be reminded that this is not off the cuff." This, as he saw it, was what got him in trouble at that Boca Raton fund-raiser, when Romney told the crowd he was writing off the 47 percent of the electorate that supported Obama (a.k.a. "those people"; "victims" who take no "personal responsibility&quot . Romney told me that the statement came out wrong, because it was an attempt to placate a rambling supporter who was saying that Obama voters were essentially deadbeats.

"My mistake was that I was speaking in a way that reflected back to the man," Romney said. "If I had been able to see the camera, I would have remembered that I was talking to the whole world, not just the man." I had never heard Romney say that he was prompted into the "47 percent" line by a ranting supporter.

Leibovich is right; this seems to be the first time Romney has tried to place responsibility for his comment on the person who asked him the question. That supporter was not rambling. Here's what he asked: "For the last three years, all everybody's been told is, 'Don't worry, we'll take care of you.' How are you going to do it, in two months before the elections, to convince everybody you've got to take care of yourself?" That was a straightforward query, succinctly put, not rambling at all. It was Romney who took the point to the next level and proclaimed that a specific number of Americans were lazy freeloaders who could not and would not fend for themselves.

To recap: Romney has gone from side-stepping the remark, to owning the thrust of this comment (though noting it was not well articulated), to saying he was wrong, to denying he said what he said (and contending his words were distorted), to claiming he was only mirroring the rambling remarks of a big-money backer. This last explanation is certainly not fair to the 1-percenter who merely expressed his very 1-percentish opinion. Does this mean that Romney was thrown off his game by a simple question—or that he was trying to suck up to a donor?

In the two years since Romney was caught on tape, he just cannot come up with a clear explanation of an easy-to-understand short series of sentences that were responsive to the question presented. But there is one possible explanation he hasn't yet put forward: He said what he believed.

[gopiscrap]

1. Romney is a self entitled, selfish

fucking pig!

[madokie]

4. You get the prize if there was one to be gotten

rMoney is a fucking pig and nothing more or nothing less. A fucking pig of a swine

[gopiscrap]

5. Why thank you!!!

[hifiguy]

39. Brutally accurate and

as succinct as can be.

[gopiscrap]

44. Thank you

I can't stand that conceited, smug fucker.

[calimary]

57. Couldn't have put it better myself.

Nailed it, gopiscrap. THAT is the bottom line for "Super-Wealthy, Imperious, Smug, Entitled, Arrogant, Lord Bottom-Line".

[onethatcares]

2. in his heart

he thinks that is the only reason he lost.

what a dipshit.

[Lochloosa]

6. Nail meet Head.

[pinboy3niner]

3. He has only one option left that he hasn't tried yet...

Blame it on Rafalca!

[Jamaal510]

32. Or all the trees in America for not being the right height. eom

[erpowers]

7. Lack Of Personal Responsibility

This, in my opinion, is a show of a lack of personal responsibility from the man who bashes the 47% for a lack of personal responsibility. Mitt Romney refuses to take personal responsibility for his statement.

[babylonsister]

14. This is his third excuse for his remarks? Yes, you

are of course right, but I think the man isn't too bright despite whatever successes he's had. He also doesn't seem to have a moral core. He's listening to his handlers; doesn't he have any input, or is it whatever furthers the cause of Mitt?
Give me a man of conviction any day; he has none.

[Dustlawyer]

22. And by his own excuse, he is saying that he was just telling the man what he wanted to hear,

even though it was wrong, ugly, and an outrageously stupid thing to say!

[JoePhilly]

8. He spoke freely thinking no one else would hear it.

Yea much better!!!!

[Cha]

9. and, it's taken him this long for that R-money bunch to come up with it.. WAHWAHWAH!

[Major Hogwash]

49. Aw, c'mon'! It's only been 2½ years!!!

You know what they say . . . the 6th time is the charm!!!

I think this is the 6th excuse poor ol' Mitt has given for saying what he believed outloud.

[secondvariety]

10. Hey Mitt...

shut your pie hole.

[C Moon]

11. I still love that picture of him pumping gas after he lost. :D

[Plucketeer]

12. Mitt is living proof

that a person can be wealthy and still be a fucking LOSER!

[adirondacker]

26. Mittwit !

That should be included in the urban dictionary...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nitwit

[kairos12]

13. Rmoney has a hidden garage from which he draws an unlimited supply

of verbal vehicles designed to place blame on the great unwashed.

[delete_bush]

41. Is there room

on his car elevator for the verbal vehicles?

[tomm2thumbs]

15. maybe he should take responsibility for his mouth instead -- is that too much to ask?

oh that's right, that would be too much to ask

[babylonsister]

20. That's where personal values come in.

It appears he doesn't have any.

He's taken lessons from McCain. If they had any moral convictions, they were compromised. Not they just look like tired old men to me.

[tomm2thumbs]

34. bingoz! likes to sweep things under the rug

or order his help to do it, more likely

[malaise]

16. But Rmoney is a quintessential

1%er - what a dumbass

[JHB]

17. The Mitt Method still applies...

Then there's the aspect where Quality is not exactly Job 1:


But dodging uncomfortable questions is par for horse disco:

[KurtNYC]

37. This ad was the best response:

(love the cookies bit btw)

[hibbing]

18. Drive away please

Take your hair and get one of your cars out of your car elevator and just go away, oh yeah, and don't forget to bring your binders of women and do that spray tan thing on your face...hehe

Peace

[Marie Marie]

25. Agreed! As long as he doesn't strap his dog to the roof of that Caddy.

[trusty elf]

48. ........

[IMG][/IMG]

[calimary]

58. And don't forget to take she-who-would-be-Empress with you.

Get her outta MY field of vision, for sure!

[DreamGypsy]

19. Mittens didn't mean to say it, but he meant what he said...

Too long in the wasteland, too long in the wasteland, must have gone to Mitt's head.

Well, I hadn't intended
to bend the rules
but whiskey don't make liars
it just makes fools
so I didn't mean to say it
but I meant what I said.

Apologies to James McMurtry:

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

21. To the bottom line,"he said what he believed".

If you go back to where Ted Kennedy summed up Romney than further wrote into how to beat Romney ,one quote from the senator pretty much nailed it. Kennedy wrote into Romney's short comings one of which is "Romney will say anything to get elected.Of course that means he is a lier and a habitual.Now than a habitual lier cannot remember the long long trail of lies ,it is not as if they write all those lies down in a little black book of lies so that they don't trip themselves up somewhere down the line, no,what they do is tell lies over the top of lies and create more lies to cover for lies they cannot defend.

What it comes down to is Ted Kennedy knew Romney's short comings,he knew Romney will say anything to get what he wants. He wanted the presidency.

The trick to beating Romney is simple, you pick and choose carefully what lies you call him out on ,where and when. In other words, the hard part about it in a campaign situation is sitting in the massive lake of lies with Romney ,waiting for just the bite,like fishing.

The guy that got caught that one wasn't even there looking for the great catch! He just happened to catch it ,the rest is history.

Didn't Jimmy Carter's grandson have a hand in that one too ? ! Getting it to go viral I mean.

Do you really think a habitual lier can confess to having been caught in a sea of lies?

[OldRedneck]

23. No surprise here

Remember -- it's only us 47% who are responsible for our words and actions. If you're in the 1%, it's ALWAYS someone else's fault.

Next thing we know, Mitt will claim it was the gardener who tied his dog to the car roof.

[bhikkhu]

24. Ron Paul does the same thing - panders to whatever audience is on front of him

then backtracks and revises or denies it when there is a different audience is in front of him, and offended. Its a characteristic of weak character, lack of self-knowledge, lack of convictions.

[lob1]

27. I think the most heinous part of that speech was basically ignored by

everyone. Remember when he was talking about visiting a Chinese manufacturer? Those workers were basically slave labor living in slave labor conditions and he thought that was a great business model. Mr. Hair is the lowest kind of scumbag on many, many levels.

[Kalidurga]

31. I actually thought that was the most horrific part of what was said.

of course Mitt would be the one to complain that slaves don't pay taxes.

[Aristus]

28. MITT!

...stop talking!...

[Jamaal510]

33. If I had his money,

I definitely would. At this point, he just looks like a bigheaded jackass.

[spanone]

29. he's a lying fool who thinks he's entitled...he's not.

[tea and oranges]

30. He's Running

Or thinking seriously about running. Why else would he bother to explain himself to the great unwashed unless they have something he wants - their votes.

[hughee99]

35. He's not running. What he says is as relevant as the shit that comes out of Palin's mouth. n/t

[davidpdx]

36. Maybe he's trying to justify it so that he can run again?

It makes me wonder what he's up to. I know he's said he won't, but you never know.

[Javaman]

38. the only way to get through the romney knot is to cut through the bullshit. nt

[rtracey]

40. STOP

Stop giving this guy air space.....let him ramble, but why do the democrats need to even bother with him, I say just stop giving him airtime. It's not news, it's not earthshaking. He is not bi-partisan. He is only going to bad mouth the president. He wouldn't have let ISIS get this far. He wouldn't have allowed Russia to invade Ukraine......BS BS BS BS.....so lets total STOP...

[CTyankee]

43. seriously! this guy doesn't have a clue. It's kinda embarrassing when you think about it....

I guess we let him ramble on and make a damn fool out of himself AGAIN and then just win the election...what a maroon...

[hifiguy]

42. Hey, Mittwit, google Molly Ivins' First Rule Of Holes

and have one of your lackeys/minions explain it to you. Hint - stop digging.

[zipplewrath]

45. Two possible explanations

There are actually two possible explanations and neither of them really "favor" Romney.

1) He said what he believed in an uncharacteristically clear way. It's been said that the modern definition of a political "gaff" is to get caught accidentally saying what you really believe.

2) He was "saying anything" to get elected. Many on the conservative side always believe that about him and it dogged him through the primaries.

[Cha]

46. First and foremost everyone has to remember what an inveterate Liar, mitt romney is.. poor mitt..

witt.. now he's telling himself he was brought down by a supporter.

[Major Hogwash]

50. "Why did he have to ask me that question!!"

Oh, boo-hoo-hoo-hooo.
I'm so sad now.

That guy didn't need to ask me any questions!
Oh, boo-hoo-hoo.

I wish I was never asked any questions!
Boo-hoo-hoo!

I had it, in the palm of my hand!
Boo-hoo-hoo!

I wonder if President Obama will invite me to come to the White House and sit in the chair behind his desk in the Oval Office now.
Boo-hoo-hoo!

We had even picked out new curtains for the Oval Office!
Boo-hoo-hoo!

Boo-hoo-hoo!

[Cha]

53. "It's all his fault!!111>>>>>>>>>>>>" LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[SmittynMo]

47. Rmoney has been

and always will be, an incompetent idiot. Thank God he and his moronic sidekick didn't get the job.

[neeksgeek]

51. The fact that he's still trying to "explain" this remark, tells me all I need to know. n/t

[SummerSnow]

52. All he has to do when asked about that comment is say, "Benghazi"

[czarjak]

54. The sad part...

There's lemmings that would do it all over again. The same ones that miss W.

[cheapdate]

55. Cowardly, lying fuck.

He meant exactly what he said. Low-income Americans are lazy, shiftless, grifters.

[TeamPooka]

56. Mitt will have new excuses for that every 4 years until he dies. nt

[JHB]

61. So you think he'll slow down on his excuse-making? ;)

So far he's averaging a new one every 10 months. Maybe fewer months, depending on how you count variants of the excuses.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

59. I know someone who met him and it's true...

Mitt's face is a perfectly smooth surface that's like a plastic without a single pore or visible hair follicle.

As if he had them removed.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

60. They thought Divine Right of Kings applied to American elections.

He is in another world.