That wasn’t a very smart thing to say at a fundraiser.
It sounds like he is apologizing for being about to lose.
Would you give money to a candidate that admits 47% of the vote is going to his opponent no matter what!?
What are the odds that Romney can get 94% or the remaining 53%? Pretty low.
Romney should have figured out how to reach some of the 47%, but instead he wrote them off. If he showed them a path to get the economy going and get them off of the public dole, he’d have a chance to reach some of those people. But instead he writes them off.
Salient point. Romney is following by throwing thoroughly chewed red meat to conservatives instead of leading by making a case to those 47% on why their choices hold them back and weaken the nation, then proposing specific ways to break their bonds of economic slavery brought on by buying into the leftist meme of class envy and entitlement.