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ksoze

(2,068 posts)
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:48 PM Sep 2012

The video could be the best thing to happen. To Romney.

He serves up nice raw red meat to his supporters who are down in the dumps right now and helps better ensure their turnout. The red blogs are cheering him for speaking his mind and finally growing a set - he may gain some disenfranchised votes. The votes he alienates were never his anyway - his calculation may have been to fully shore up his wavering base and hope (and fix) for low turnout from the other side. A stretch, but since these tapes have been floating around the net for a while i various forms, maybe they helped them come to life?

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BumRushDaShow

(129,121 posts)
3. He did the same after insulting the NAACP
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:52 PM
Sep 2012

but all it will do is fire up the Dems even more and the indies will wonder why he has to go into the gutter for his campaign. And that's because if they thought the way he and the RW lunatic fringe zombies thought, then they wouldn't be independents.

renie408

(9,854 posts)
4. Ya know, I just read that one of the things that is going to come out of those tapes
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:53 PM
Sep 2012

is that Romney said that American workers should be more like Chinese workers.

And I am just not thinking that is going to go over big for him. Also, we need to just help keep on hammering on the fact that he is talking about my mother and the guy down the street who was injured in Afghanistan. We need to wallpaper Facebook with this shit. If enough people get hit from enough sides with this information, it WILL click for them.

aletier_v

(1,773 posts)
5. Romney's support at Freerepublic was relatively weak
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:55 PM
Sep 2012

And a few of them glumly wrote him off tonight.

I don't see that this video helps him at all.

DearAbby

(12,461 posts)
6. He called that elderly woman
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:56 PM
Sep 2012

sitting in a wheel chair at the local Nursing home...a moocher. Someone's mother, grandmother. He called veterans who depend on the government for healthcare...lazy. The student wanting to go to school, using government handout. It was the part about "PEOPLE NEEDING TO LEARN HOW TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN LIVES." that was heartless. Anyone who depends on the government, for help to maintain a quality of life are moochers. A Large portion of that 47% are elderly, disabled, the very poor. are they all moochers?

This is a game changer. Romney told us there are two Americas...only one matters.

Spazito

(50,372 posts)
7. He can't win with just his rabid righwing nutjobs...
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:57 PM
Sep 2012

and he has insulted, demeaned and treated with contempt everyone else, EVERYONE else. This is one more nail in his election coffin, imo, and he has more than a few nails already.

XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
8. He insulted almost the entire country
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 08:59 PM
Sep 2012

*People who don't pay taxes who vote for Obama,

*People who DO pay taxes who vote for Obama,

*People who haven't paid taxes or who are planning to not pay taxes who are Obama voters,

*People who don't pay taxes who are republicans, and

*People who haven't paid taxes or who are planning to not pay taxes who are republicans (i.e. students or people nearing retirement).

He just ripped on most of the people in the country.

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
9. Right, because
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:00 PM
Sep 2012

"The votes he alienates were never his anyway "

...the bloc of undecided voters are all wingnuts?

Geez. Mitt's still in the race because people find every angle to claim his destructive despicable bullshit is good for his campaign.

Racist, ignorant comments...score!

Oh brother.

Can anyone point to an election won solely on the wingnut vote?





 

morningfog

(18,115 posts)
10. lol. There was no calculation here. He doesn't want this out there. Watch him flail when asked
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:02 PM
Sep 2012

to address it.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
12. I don't think he wants to win
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:06 PM
Sep 2012

His own kids have sabotaged him with anecdotes like "dog on the roof", "tripping pregnant daughter-in-law to win race" and "shoving kid's face in butter".

He's an asshole, plain and simple. If he is banking on assholes winning, he definitely has some backing, but the "I'm not an asshole" contingent is going to hand his ass to him.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
11. Romney sired five sons
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:03 PM
Sep 2012

His "balls to the wall" is rated at talcum powder in the hardness scale.

Proof that materials don't ensure outcome, when you have an inept person working with them.

Michelangelo creates David, Romney ends up creating Dudley Dursley.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
13. You might be sureprised
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:08 PM
Sep 2012

by how many people in the demographic he trashed have voted for republicans. This not only helps Obama, it helps dow ticket elections as well. Speaking from experience with such voters in MO.

Indpndnt

(2,391 posts)
14. Nope. I know someone who finally threw up their hands today over this latest insult.
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 09:10 PM
Sep 2012

He won't be voting for Willard, although he had planned to hold his nose and do so. He's a senior citizen on SS, Medicare, and Medicaid. You know, part of that 47% after a lifetime of work and paying taxes. He's done with Willard. He's LIVID!

Those are the people who will turn on Willard over these tapes - those who were going to hold their noses or those who were truly on the fence. Anyone who finds this to be red meat for them was already voting for him. He's done. Fork time.

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