How to take a GREAT speech line and stomp it into the ground until dead 101!
Romney himself said it was not well put.
Now YOU are stomping on Paul Ryan for saying same.
The “47% who don’t pay taxes will vote Obama no matter what and see themselves as victims and entitled” is the part that is mistakenly put.
The principle is correct...too many are dependent on government and that is where Obama wants them and his policies reveal that and cause that.
I agree with Romney/Ryan on that part.
I disagree that everyone - equalling the 47% who don’t pay income taxes - who receives something from the government, is as Romney appeared to be describing.
He needs to flesh out who he means. He can’t mean government retirees, or those receiving medicare, social security retirement, unemployment if indeed they have tried and tried and could not find work or working but too poor to pay taxes etc...but the enemy within is now in full throttle to convince Americans that is exactly what he meant.
A caller to C-Span (I couldn’t stand to hear the rest of the callers, it was all so vile and filled with lies based on the full-video-release perceptions) said if Romney is elected, it’s over, we’re done, he will take my medicare, he will take everything. C-Span had just got through airing the entire thing.
The principle that Romney enunciated was great.
He got lost in the weeds some on the details he claimed, and he lost some of the truth in what he was trying to say.
Both he and Ryan are admitting it.
But I knew it when I first heard his exact wording...I knew what he meant, but something was OFF.