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RandySF

(58,899 posts)
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 10:39 PM Nov 2012

Romney Supporters Ready To Blame Government Moochers If Obama Wins

FAIRFAX, Va. — If President Obama wins re-election on Tuesday, retired Army Colonel Allen Wild knows exactly who blame: “the 47 percent.” Not the leaked video of Republican nominee Mitt Romney claiming that 47 percent of Americans will vote for Obama because they are dependent on government.

“The takers,” Wild explained to TPM at a Romney rally on the final day of the campaign Monday here at George Mason University. “Those who pay no income tax.”

Wild, like many other Romney supporters who turned out see the former governor, was optimistic that Romney will be the next president. The crowd, which filled George Mason’s Patriot Center while thousands more waited in a spill-over area outside, responded to Romney’s stump speech with thunderous applause.

Romney never veered from the closing argument he’s been making in swing states throughout the nation in recent days. He warned that another four years under Obama would be disastrous and could drive the nation into the financial rocks. He pitched himself as the candidate of real change.


http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/romney-supporters-obama-47-percent-victory.php?ref=fpa

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liberalmuse

(18,672 posts)
1. I was a "government moocher" once.
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 10:42 PM
Nov 2012

I was a single mom on welfare who used housing and grants to get an education. I've been self-sufficient for many years now, and I've raised a remarkable child to boot. AND I pay more taxes that 86% of the people voting Republican.

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
12. I was a government moocher once. I got into college because academic skill and Pell Grants,
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 10:48 PM
Nov 2012

I couldn't afford to go any other way. I pay more in taxes each year that the many of the people voting for Romney earn.

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
4. McCain-Palin rallies were full of such people in 2008. The final crowds were just as big for them.
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 10:44 PM
Nov 2012

What they don't get is that hard working people vote their wallet, they will vote for Obama. Pollsters undercount those people, they will show up because they realize how important this election is.

ananda

(28,866 posts)
10. Count me in!
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 10:48 PM
Nov 2012

Even though I don't really mooch anything yet, my time is coming
when I'll be using Medicare.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
13. Hypocrisy... Colonel, you get your pension right?
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 10:49 PM
Nov 2012

And if any of it is a disability, it is TAX FREE...

Ain't that lovely?

rustydog

(9,186 posts)
15. Actually, according to Bloomberg, Romney paid no taxes at all from 1996 to 2009
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 10:58 PM
Nov 2012

So he is one of those moochers!

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