Romney to Business Crowd: Obama Sees You As an "Evil"
Source: Mother Jones
Ever since I revealed Mitt Romney's 47 percent rant, tips and tapes have come through the transomincluding this and this. And another source who asked not to be identified just sent me an audio recording of a private Mitt Romney fundraiser from earlier this year. At this event, Romney didn't decry half of the nation, but he and Ann Romney each expressed disdain for President Barack Obama, with the Republican presidential candidate asserting that Obama considers businesspeople "a necessary evil" and his wife suggesting that the president was not a "grown-up."
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Romney's pitch to this well-heeled O.C. crowd was heavy on celebrating entrepreneurs. He claimed that Obama and his supporters were opposed to success, declaring, "Heaven help us if we have people who try to divide America between those that have succeeded and those that haven't." And Romney, who possesses not one but two graduate degrees from Harvard, blasted Obama's economic policies for being crafted by Ivy League experts:
What they have in their mind is a vision of America dominated by government, by individuals they respect, people like themselves: highly educated, spent a lot of time in the faculty club at Harvard, and they believe they can guide the economy better than can individuals all pursuing their own dream. It does make sense, after all, that smart people, bureaucrats can sit down and do a better job deciding which type of energy company to invest in, which type of technology to invest in, what kind of health care you should have, who's your providerall these smart people could do a better job. It makes all the sense in the world as opposed to saying individuals all doing whatever the heck they want, some without education, can go off and build businesses and succeed or fail. And yet that of course, that latter model, is the only one in the history of the world that's ever worked to lift people out of poverty and create permanent prosperity.
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I'm convinced that if this president is reelected, the war on business and economic freedom will continue. I don't think the president likes you very much. If you're in business, I think he looks at you as a necessary eviland maybe not so necessary. I love you, all right? I love, I love business. I love people who employ other people, who have dreams and ideas, and are willing to start enterprises, and put people to workall good things grow from successful enterprises. Businessesgood jobs come from good businesses.
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Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/romney-fundraiser-obama-business-evil
Audio at the link, including Ann Romney saying that "the ship's going over the waterfall, it's almost there... This is a frightening world, and we need a grown-up, and we need someone that understands the economy. So I'm glad Mitt is grown up to you all."
This was recorded March 27 at a fundraiser in Irvine, California, a thousand-dollar-a-plate outdoor luncheon that David Corn says "drew much of Orange County's Republican elite."
Overseas
(12,121 posts)caveat_imperator
(193 posts)Just a helpful suggestion rethugs and vulture capitalists.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)employ more people than our big businesses each year.
Such weirdness from both of them. He almost reminds me of Peter Pan or something. What does this mean:
From Romney:
I love you, all right? I love, I love business.
From Ann:
So I'm glad
Mitt is grown up to you all.
Could you ever imagine President and Mrs. Obama making such divisive comments to a group? I can almost hear these two sneering.
think_critically
(118 posts)His wife is so snarky, annoying, and hateful its not even funny. Kind of ironic that she refers to the first
black president as being a child i.e. not a grown up. I wish they would play this on every black radio station
in America. I truly despise these people.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)on the world stage as Obama.
I was in London protesting W's butt when he managed to piss off the Queen and ruin her Buckingham palace garden with his stupid helicopter. Rmoney continued the Repuke tradition with his ignorant comments in the UK this past year. Ugh.
By contrast, Obama is a superstar everywhere but here, apparently.
Money doesn't buy class, Mittens & Ann.
oldbanjo
(690 posts)should be to the IRS and have them find out how he has 100 million in an IRA account and prosecute the SOB.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)a socialist and anti business, he's not good at it. Corporate profits are at record highs. The stock market doubled and 32 trillion before tax dollars are hidden in the Cayman Islands.
What the fuck are these douche nozzles talking about?
Brigid
(17,621 posts)You *are* evil.
reflection
(6,286 posts)"Heaven help us if we have people who try to divide America between those that have succeeded and those that haven't."
"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 not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
november3rd
(1,113 posts)I always knew you had to be driven by some abnormal psychological force to brave the tempests of a contemporary Presidential campaign, but this mendacity borders on psychotic.
sebastianj333
(99 posts)Wall Street has made more money under President Obama than any President in history...people are so ignorant.
and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)Vidar
(18,335 posts)Galraedia
(5,026 posts)"When I heard the head of Coca-Cola say that the business environment in America is less hospitable than the business environment in China, I knew we had a problem. I want to make sure that America has the most attractive business conditions in the world...Whether it's energy or regulation or tax policy or labor policy or legal policy or health care policyI want America to be the best place for business." ~ Mitt Romney
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)He wants to make sure that big business and the elites who own them bear no burden or responsibility.
Perhaps some day soon, people will come to the realization that a tiny minority of the human population cannot have a moral imperative to own and control all of the world's material and financial resources.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)...and that's my base!"
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)People like this getting on the podium claiming they love you is Amway mind control shit.