Romney and the 47%

During the Presidential campaign, Mitt Romney spoke before a group of wealthy contributors in Florida and made reference to the fact that 47% of Americans were on the dole and therefore would never vote for a Republican for President. This reference would have been fine had it remained with his private audience, but one of the wait staff had set his cell phone to video recording, and this was captured and released to the public.

The guy who recorded the message recently came forward and appeared on a number of the liberal media shows on MSNBC,  He said that he kept annonymous at first because "at the time he shot the video, he was living paycheck to paycheck without a car or health insurance, so it was a serious risk to his livelihood to make the video public."

But - and this is the part I wanted to make a point of today, there is a difference between Democrats and Republicans and this too had a profound effect on the guy's willingness to release the video. 

    " Ironically, it was another politician's desire to connect with catering staff at a previous event that made the Romney 47 percent video possible. After a previous event the bartender had worked, former President Bill Clinton made a point of going into the kitchen and talking to the waiters, bartenders, and busboys. Like Bill Clinton always does. So...

    When the bartender learned he would be working at Romney's fundraiser, his first thought was to bring his camera, in case he had a chance to get a photo with the presidential candidate.

    Romney, of course, did not speak to any of the staff, bussers or waiters. He was late to the event, and rushed out. He told his dinner guests that the event was off the record, but never bothered to repeat the admonition to the people working there.

And there was the bartender, with his camera. How inconvenient for Mitt Romney, whose candidacy was seriously damaged by someone too unimportant for him to even shake hands with. But how convenient for voters who got to hear what Romney really thought of them.

Quotes and information reported here taken from Daily Kos.

And at last the truth is known - Romeny Taxes

Harry Reid was right:

Bloomberg finally cracked the story...
Using a tax shelter called a CRUT (charitable remainder unitrust) that was held by the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Mitt Romney was able to pay zero taxes (legally) every single year from 1996 to 2009. Why did he stop in 2009? Because he would make public his 2010 tax return, that is why.

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Ah ha ha ha ha....

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Presidential candidate Mitt Romney believes that magic underwear will protect him from evil ... and then there's this...

“You can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous.”

—	Mitt Romney lamenting the fact that windows don’t open on airplanes. Romney, it turns out, was joking.

And there are people who are REALLY going to vote this ignoramus?

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“This is the most inauthentic candidacy I’ve ever seen, I must say. We used to talk about the woodenness of Al Gore. I mean, Al Gore looks like a stand-up comedian compared to this guy.”

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Modern American politics is replete with what may be called “Asterisk Republicans.” These are conservatives who adhere to the GOP’s ideological orthodoxy* until such time as someone they care about is personally impacted by it. Dick Cheney’s support for same-sex unions, Fred Thompson’s stand for the right of families to make end of life decisions for their loved ones and Orrin Hatch’s conversion on stem cell research are just some of the examples the GOP’s “for me, not thee” approach.

That’s what makes Mitt Romney’s gymnastic reversal on the reproductive rights of American women so unique – and all the more shocking. After all, years before Romney’s statement last week that Roe v. Wade constituted “one of the darkest moments in Supreme Court history,” he told Massachusetts voters he would “sustain and support it.” As it turns it out, Romney no longer mentions the "dear, close family relative" whose death from an illegal abortion once inspired his formerly "unwavering" pro-choice position.

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