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Romney on the 47 Percent Comment: I Said Something That’s Completely Wrong

Primus54 from Ohio Wrote: Oct 05, 2012 11:44 AM
When one listens to the secret video and understands the audience to whom Romney was addressing, it becomes evident that he was referring to the strategy of how he was going to spend his campaign dollars, rightly confessing that he wasn't going to waste a lot of time or resources trying to change the minds of voters who will never vote for a GOP candidate, but rather to focus on the base, but especially independents. In context, Romney was essentially saying he didn't "care" to waste time or money trying to push a rope up a hill. The lesson? Always assume there's a snake in the grass in the audience... and don't provide ammunition that can be so easily manipulated when out of context.

 

When Mitt Romney was first given the opportunity to further explain the ’47 percent’ remark he made at a fundraiser in May he said it wasn’t ‘elegantly’ stated. Essentially, the comment represented his beliefs about government dependency in ‘Obama’s America’ or, ‘trickle-down government’ as he described during the debate. In an interview with Sean Hannity, however, Romney changed his tune:

In an interview Thursday night with Fox News, Romney was asked what he would have said had the "47 percent" comments come up during his debate in Denver on Wednesday night with President Barack...

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