Mitt says 47% of voters dependent on government and he doesn't care about them.

[Diego]

What was he thinking?

Everyone knows the professional victims are only about 12.6%

[Underseige]

I told Mitt to go to bed at 10.

[Byng]

He got the 47% from the fact that apparently 47% of American's don't pay any federal income taxes. He just assumes that that 47% consists of nothing but leeches and bums who are victims and completely dependent on government and will automatically vote for Obama. This was a very candid look at what kind of man Romney really is and alot of people aren't going to like it one bit!

I mean this SOB just insulted my parents for Christ's sake. My parents both worked virtually their entire lives and are now retired. They are part of that 47% and according to Romney they are nothing but leeches who just depend on the government and don't wanna take care of themselves

Exactly! A large percentage of the 47% Romney is saying do not pay taxes and don't contribute are retires that paid taxes and contributed all of their working lives but are now retired. Romney just pissed off the one demographic that he could have locked up to vote for him.

[Underseige]

Exactly! A large percentage of the 47% Romney is saying do not pay taxes and don't contribute are retires that paid taxes and contributed all of their working lives but are now retired. Romney just pissed off the one demographic that he could have locked up to vote for him.

Florida, Nevada, and Ohio are definitely in Obama's camp now

[regularguy]

I wonder what portion of the 47% who he claims are leeches and victims are the conservative working-class white males who are supposedly Romney's base?

He sure isn't going to win with only rich people voting for him.

[OldBay]

So Mitt is an intelligent, hard-working man who doesn't like lazy welfare bums. Sounds like a winner to me.

I've seen absolutely no evidence of even average intelligence or hard work from this spoiled brat.

http://news.yahoo.com/romneys-charac...053402865.html

[Jack Dublin]

I wonder what portion of the 47% who he claims are leeches and victims are the conservative working-class white males who are supposedly Romney's base?

He sure isn't going to win with only rich people voting for him.

Mitt even offended the folks on unemployment who are mad at Obama for the economy. Unemployment insurance, that Obama extended, would qualify one as a leech too, right?

[Byng]

You can stick a fork in Romney now, he is done!

[Jack Dublin]

And I thought the GOP was against "class warfare"? This is the most crude form of class warfare. I think Mitt "The Nowhere Man" Romney is rather a crude fellow.

[demopublican]

Mitt even offended the folks on unemployment who are mad at Obama for the economy. Unemployment insurance, that Obama extended, would qualify one as a leech too, right?

Hell yes. When unemployment pays better than work what do you get?
Lots of people on unemployment and illegal aliens.

[Calamari]

And I thought the GOP was against "class warfare"? This is the most crude form of class warfare. I think Mitt "The Nowhere Man" Romney is rather a crude fellow.

He's a real piece of mitt.

[Jack Dublin]

The media keeps bringing up Obama's "clinging to God and guns" audio tape. The big difference is that many Americans do cling to God and guns, especially in hard times, as Obama pointed out and they are proud of it and hold it against Obama because they think he doesn't cling to God and guns. Not many are going to embrace Mitt's statement.

[Wizard777]

No many are retired after working all their lives, receive SS and need this as well as MC to live. Tell this to those in Nursing Homes. No way can you spin this as a good remark. Mitt has just said "I will not raise taxes" The end

But Romney just wants to help Americans. He want to get get Grandpa out of the Nursing Home and get him a real job. That way Grandpa doesn't have to be dependent on the government after spending his life paying into Social Security.

[Byng]

Where are all of our posters from the right, tonight?

[soulflower]

Mitt knows he stepped in it

Many of those 47% who don't pay Federal income taxes pay Payroll taxes, State income taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes...

[ODENTON]

Mitt knows he stepped in it

Many of those 47% who don't pay Federal income taxes pay Payroll taxes, State income taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes...

guess Mitt didn't realize that most of the old white retired people vote Republican. I mean (did) vote republican since Mitt said they are free loaders.



Watching his press conference was depressing. He looked tousled.

[Wizard777]

They were hauling out the big guns to defend Romney's latest blunder. The Chairman of the GOP, what's his name, Rinse Penis was all over the talk shows trying to convince people that Romney's right. It's the rest of the world that's wrong.

[The Shadow]

GALLUP: 67% OF DEMS SAY GOVT -- SHOULD DO MORE!

8,786,049: Yet Another Record for Americans Collecting Disability...

16 People Working For Each Person Collecting..

[gps29070]

what's funny, is probably half the republican base also doesn't pay taxes and lives off the government but still will vote for Romney anyways..... Just look at a poverty map of the US, then look at an electoral vote of the US.

[Joy in Mudville]

Wow...

Just a stunning development. I notice that Shadow is still frantically posting his headlines but, really, it's over.

The silver lining here is that maybe, just maybe, the Powells' and the Bloomberg's and the Rice's and the Hagel's and Lieberman's will get together and form a third party that presents conservatives with an alternative to the wingnuts running the GOP