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Thus, when Romney essentially proclaimed that the 47% of Americans who receive government assistance were a lost cause, the statement confirmed, to the others, the narrative that he does not care for people.
1 posted on 11/23/2012 2:11:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Anyone that believes any government agent or any politician ‘cares about you’ is too stupid to live, much less vote.


2 posted on 11/23/2012 2:14:32 PM PST by Monty22002
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The “47%” remark made me feel more confidant in him.


3 posted on 11/23/2012 2:15:34 PM PST by albie
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The “cares about people” is a typical liberal voter. It's all about feelings. They really believe the government should “care” about them and in literal terms the government should take care of them. The real world must be a scary place for them.
6 posted on 11/23/2012 2:19:07 PM PST by pepperdog ( I still get a thrill up my leg when spell check doesn't recognize the name/word Obama!)
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Persona Definition: The aspect of someone’s character that is presented to or perceived by others.

I understand the gist of the article. When this guy was pushed in front of us as the only alternative to obama, there was something about him I just did not like (asside from the fact Romney is a RINO), and I realized it was his persona.

So I agree many viewed his persona as uncaring.

But I see persona as more emotional than logical and got over it, realized of the two choices, Romney would be the better of the two for the country.

Libs allow emotion to trump logic, so of course they would not vote for him.


8 posted on 11/23/2012 2:23:17 PM PST by redfreedom (The spineless RINO's have made themselves irrelevent and lost the country for us.)
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I think this article is probably true. A lot of voters want their government to "care about them" and a lot of voters think Obama is just the guy for that role.

1) I do not want my government to take care of me. It bothers me that 47% of the people want to mooch off of 53% of the people. Romney was correct when he tried to explain that a workable society creates conditions where people can successfully take care of themselves.

2) In terms of personality, I think Romney really does care about people. His personal history has genuine examples of this. He is a caring man -- which is part of the reason why he wants government to back off. On the other hand, I sincerely believe that Obama has a damaged soul and does not care about anyone but himself. But he seems able to hide this from weak-minded fools pretty well.

9 posted on 11/23/2012 2:24:09 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Global Warming is a religion, and I don't want to be taxed to pay for a faith that is not mine.)
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I disagree. It was the LACK of phrases that cost Romney (and the what is left of the nation) the election.

The premier phrases would have been "liar" and "tell us what really happened in Ben Ghazi"

There are a thousand others, but I don't want to use up bandwidth. The majority of thinking people know.

11 posted on 11/23/2012 2:28:27 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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Mitt Romney is a good man. I never questioned that he ‘cared for people’ However, I also realized that he didn’t assume that the government was the only viable way of ‘caring’. Unfortunately, as usual, the leftmedia was able to portray Romney as an uncaring plutocrat that was ‘insensitive’ to the ‘needs’ of people. With our society collectively becoming more and more dependent on government handouts and essentially feminized with ‘feelings’ being one of the predominate motivators of whom one votes for, even a ‘moderate’ Republican such as Mitt Romney was doomed to lose to the lying fraud, Obama. Now, we’ll reap what the majority have sowed with their votes - and it won’t be pretty.


14 posted on 11/23/2012 2:36:00 PM PST by Jim Scott (Obama must be defeated)
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Those for whom empathy was the most important candidate quality clearly ...

That this is a quality that so many people think is an important qualification for office is a sign of how infantile and neurotic our society has become.

15 posted on 11/23/2012 2:42:01 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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What if we told you that the election was decided by a phrase?


“Even if they catch us, the Republicans are too damned spineless to do anything about our election fraud.”


18 posted on 11/23/2012 2:44:24 PM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (If there is a war on women, the Kennedys are the Spec Ops troops.)
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This may very well be true.

There are those of us who view empathy and more importantly sympathy as a vice...not a virtue.

from http://patriotaction.net/profiles/blogs/the-indolent-class-a

The Indolent class relies upon assistance from many sources for all their needs. Government, private sector, friends, and relatives may all contribute. The Indolent conducts their life with assistance from others factored in to all they do.

The Indolent is additionally freed from the outcomes of their choices and behaviors. Somebody else will fix what they break. Somebody else will feed the mouths they create.

Indolents are never to blame for creating their misfortunes.

Indolents are freed from the Cause and Effect relationships of life.

The question becomes - How can anyone learn from experience when they are purposely excluded from responsibility? What motivation will curb their appetites when nothing stands to impede their appetites?

This is why most Indolents remain on public assistance from others all their lives. They learn from birth that others will care for them. Laws require the government intervene. Citizens and non-citizens who refuse to care for themselves, or are unable to negotiate life, receive subsidy. For some Indolents, the welfare level of income, a level classified by government as poverty, is sufficient and preferred to working. The Indolent prefers free time to do what they wish, over finding gainful employment that requires their time. Many adopt crime as a means of supplementing their incomes.

At some point the empathy/sympathy must be turned form virtue into vice. The lives of the poor are not sufficiently miserable. The poor in the USA live better than 90% of the rest of the world and yet they are somehow being oppressed by those who live middle income or wealthy lives.

19 posted on 11/23/2012 2:44:43 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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Actually, the mantra of the left has been Republicans are heartless rich white guys for .... oh.... decades now ?

Republicans are heartless ! Everyone says so !

PR campaign on news, TV, radio, print, movies, schools, colleges...

Repub machine counters that with the “we’re kinder, gentler”, “compassionate” heartless rich white guys.

So... Repub politicians usually don’t even deny the accusation.

Romney campaign was continuation of the same strategy.


21 posted on 11/23/2012 2:47:17 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves.)
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What if we told you that the election was decided by a phrase?

I's say you're full of crap........

22 posted on 11/23/2012 2:47:37 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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A "phrase" didn't sink Romney...Romney was sunk before he started....as a matter of fact, any Republican candidate was sunk right out of the starting gate.

The liberals are crowing about a great win, but this "win" started years ago...with the first issuance of a Federal government welfare check, whenever that was.

The hyphenated American class, Deadbeat-Americans was spawned on that day.

Everyone should have been able to see the handwriting on the wall when it was admitted by everybody that 47% of Americans pay NO income tax. You have to know that if the government admits to a number like that, the situation has to be much worse. And it was. We were all kind of "taken in" by the excitement of the polls and pundants like Dick Morris who was "absolutely sure" Romney would win, knowing all along that the 47% was hanging out there like a cold, wet pile of excrement.

There have been many pundants and economists throughout the last 2 or 3 hundred years that predicted essentially the same thing:

When people realize that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury, they will, and freedom will start to slip away from that moment on.

That point has been reached IMO.

We will never be able to get our country back unless we find some way to tie a valid vote to a positive contribution to our Country.

WE SIMPLY HAVE BEEN OUT BRED AND INVADED BY TOO MANY DEADBEATS LOOKING FOR A HANDOUT. Their numbers will only increase exponentially from now on and take us to the scene of the crash.

I WANT SOMEONE HERE TO SHOW ME WHERE I AM WRONG. I want to be wrong, but I see no other PEACEFUL way out of this mess...

24 posted on 11/23/2012 2:49:25 PM PST by B.O. Plenty (Give WAR a chance.......)
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How many of those 47%ers actually follow the news enough to have heard what Romney said?

The 47% don't follow politics, don't follow the news, all they know is that the Republicans are evil........That's pretty simple really.

25 posted on 11/23/2012 2:52:48 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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Yes...and Reagan spoke about hope for all!


26 posted on 11/23/2012 2:53:55 PM PST by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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Romney represented having to work and think for yourself.

Obama represented Santa Claus.

Santa Claus won.


27 posted on 11/23/2012 2:55:35 PM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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Three observations...

47% of Americans who receive government assistance are a lost cause.

Romney lost by a total margin of ~340,000 in 4 states.

Voter fraud was rampant.

31 posted on 11/23/2012 2:58:31 PM PST by FreeReign
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The pony tail guy at the town hall debate in 1992 was THE turning point of American politics...when government acting as our ‘parent’ became the focus of presidential elections.


32 posted on 11/23/2012 2:59:30 PM PST by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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I would bet that those who regularly pay NO TAXES voted for The Messiah.

When you can vote for benefiting ONLY YOURSELF and YOUR KIND, you vote DEMOCRAT.

When you want the Freedom to vote for the U.S. Constitution, and the RIGHT to Pursue Happiness, you DO NOT vote DEMOCRAT.

The 47%-Rule is in place now, and couple that with Blacks ALWAYS voting for a Black, you have no future in this country to look forward to, nor do your children and grandchildren....it's been stolen.

34 posted on 11/23/2012 3:04:01 PM PST by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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The Phrase That Lost Romney the Election:
Massive voter fraud


41 posted on 11/23/2012 3:10:20 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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