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  • Poll: '47 percent' gets more traction than 'You didn't build that'

    10/03/2012 10:45:08 AM PDT · by Evil Slayer · 51 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/03/12 | Justin Sink
    A new poll finds that Mitt Romney's secretly recorded comments about the "47 percent" of Americans who do not pay taxes did more to turn voters off than President Obama's "You didn't build that" remark at a campaign rally in Virginia. According to a survey released Tuesday night by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal, 45 percent of voters said Romney's comments at a private fundraiser gave them a negative impression of the candidate. Alternatively, 23 percent said the comment gave them a more positive review of the candidate. “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote...
  • Mitt Romney and the Politics of Virtue

    10/03/2012 10:06:07 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 2 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 3, 2012 | Marvin Folkertsma
    When Mitt Romney blurted out his now notorious 47-percent lament, liberal gaffe-o-meters went ballistic, acting as though he were an American Ebenezer Scrooge who had just shoved Tiny Tim Cratchit into a ditch and then burned down a crutch factory. As several observers have noted, this amorphous statistic includes myriads of worthy beneficiaries indeed, such as veterans, social security recipients, the physically or mentally disabled, the deserving poor, and those utterly unable to take care of themselves in a society where the federal government has assumed tasks that once were the preserve of families, churches, voluntary organizations, and state or...
  • Obama and Romney's Dueling Secret Videos (pic)

    10/03/2012 9:45:33 AM PDT · by The Looking Spoon
    The Looking Spoon ^ | 10-3-12 | The Looking Spoon
    I'm sure we've all seen the video by now...here's my nutshell of it.
  • Liberal Exploitation Of Who They Perceive To Be Victims Knows No Bounds (pic)

    10/02/2012 10:02:50 AM PDT · by The Looking Spoon · 3 replies
    The Looking Spoon ^ | 10-2-12 | The Looking Spoon
    First it was Julia, now National Review has an excellent piece on the latest female exploited by the Obama Campaign. Read it here.
  • The One Word Answer To The Next Time Obama Says He'll Be President For All Americans

    09/28/2012 1:44:40 PM PDT · by The Looking Spoon · 6 replies
    The Looking Spoon ^ | 9-28-12 | The Looking Spoon
  • Addicts in America

    09/26/2012 10:45:50 AM PDT · by arthurus · 7 replies
    Right Side News ^ | 26 September 2012 | Daniel Greenfield
    Anyone who hasn't worked with addicts doesn't know how charming and persuasive they can be. The addict is the distilled ego focused on a single burning need. All the cleverness and intelligence of the human being, the attributes that we would ordinarily use to work, create, befriend and empathize, become tools for protecting the addiction and the supply ... becomes a death sentence. A death of the soul followed by the death of the body. While I sat there, trying to ignore the noises, the shrieks of pain, the pleas for help and the mumbles, the Republican Convention was beginning...
  • The Obama Press Votes Early

    09/25/2012 5:07:56 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 7 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 25, 2012 | Mona Charen
    "Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring." --Ann RomneyMrs. Romney's exasperation with conservative critics is understandable. The mainstream press has been like a school of piranhas swarming around her husband. To receive fire from her own side as well -- even constructive advice -- may seem too much to bear. Mitt Romney is facing perhaps the most corrupt and tendentious coverage in presidential history, as members of the fourth estate eschew any semblance of integrity in their attempt to skew interpretations in favor of their pinup, Mr. Obama. The examples would fill volumes....
  • The Ghosts of Jimmy Carter

    09/23/2012 2:46:52 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 4 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 23, 2012 | Jeff Carter
    One of the more piquant details in the tale of Mitt Romney's damning "47 percent" video is that it was unearthed online by James Earl Carter IV, a grandson and namesake of the 39th president. The self-described "oppo researcher [and] political junkie" told NBC News that he tracked down the person who recorded Romney's remarks at a May fundraiser, then put him in touch with Mother Jones, the left-wing magazine that publicized the video last Monday. Carter's "research assistance" was credited in a terse endnote, but the reaction from his grandfather was more effusive: "James," the former president emailed, "This...
  • Media Bias and the 47 Percent

    09/21/2012 5:43:22 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 24 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 21, 2012 | Linda Chavez
    The narrative of the Romney campaign as portrayed by most major media last week has been one of a tone-deaf, elitist candidate. In a presidential race as tight as this one -- the Gallup daily tracking poll Thursday showed the candidates tied at 47 percent -- the media potentially can tip the balance for or against a candidate in a decisive way. Most outlets ran with the stories suggesting Romney was describing 47 percent of American voters as government-dependent slackers who pay no taxes. In fact, Romney suggested nothing of the sort. The videotape of Romney's remarks received publicity after...
  • No Apologies Needed, Mitt

    09/21/2012 5:21:21 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 6 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 21, 2012 | Pat Buchanan
    Mitt Romney has conceded that his thoughts, expressed at that Boca Raton, Fla., fundraiser, were "not elegantly" stated. Those mocking him might concede he has tabled one of the mega-issues of our time. Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits? "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," said Mitt, "the 47 percent who ... are dependent upon government, who believe that they are...
  • Mitt Video an Opportunity, Not a Scandal

    09/21/2012 4:23:38 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 6 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 21, 2012 | David Limbaugh
    So what about the Democrats' would-be tempest about Mitt Romney's alleged 47 percent gaffe? Is there any "there" there? Mitt's statement was made at a private fundraiser, where he was trying to explain that his message of reducing taxes would obviously not resonate with the 47 percent of Americans who are not paying income taxes. It's purely logical; you aren't going to entice those who aren't paying taxes with promises of lower taxes. The statement was hardly shocking or unique. For years, we've heard the axiom that once the body politic of any nation freely votes itself money from the...
  • Shocking! A US Presidential candidate tells some home truths!

    09/20/2012 12:23:09 AM PDT · by Jet Jaguar · 19 replies
    melaniephillips.com ^ | Sept 19, 2012 | Melanie Phillips
    Mitt Romney has made some remarks at a fund-raising dinner which have apparently shocked America and the entire western world to the core. His campaign is said to be reeling in disarray. Readers of this blog will know that I am no fan of Romney. So what did he say to create this furore? He said: ‘There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility...
  • Gov. Romney Was Correct

    09/20/2012 3:18:21 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 3 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 20, 2012 | Judge Andrew Napolitano
    As readers of this column and viewers of Fox News Channel may know, I have not hesitated to criticize Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and the governor himself. I have argued that his message is muddled and his values are unknown beyond his ardent wish to improve economic conditions through the use of free market mechanisms rather than central economic planning, a position with which I agree entirely. I have also maintained that his willingness to abandon, or not to accept, first principles has made these questions reasonable: If Romney is elected president, which Romney will show up for work...
  • Tax penalty to hit nearly 6M uninsured people (OBAMACARE)

    09/19/2012 1:13:23 PM PDT · by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost · 18 replies
    Drudge Report ^ | September 19, 2012 | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional budget analysts are now estimating that nearly 6 million Americans — most of them in the middle class — will have to pay a tax penalty for not getting health insurance once President Barack Obama's health care law is fully in place.
  • How much do Nonpayers Earn? (Average Income of the 47%)

    09/19/2012 10:31:41 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    Tax Foundation ^ | 09/19/2012 | William McBride
    September 18, 2012 By:  William McBride Lots of talk today about the half of the population that do not pay federal income taxes, based on Romney’s comment that 47 percent pay no income tax. The 47 percent number is an estimate of the share of the total population that pays no income tax, coming from the Tax Policy Center, which is in line with our estimate using IRS data, but slightly less than the 51 percent estimated by the Joint Committee on Taxation.However, the hard data from IRS tax returns indicates that about 41 percent of filers pay no...
  • Things Democrats Say In Private

    09/19/2012 11:02:37 AM PDT · by The Looking Spoon · 6 replies
    The Looking Spoon ^ | 9-19-12 | The Looking Spoon
    Inspired by #ThingsDemocratsSayInPrivate on Twitter.
  • Mitt's Missed Point: Caring About You Doesn't Mean Eternally Caring FOR You

    09/19/2012 5:12:50 AM PDT · by suspects · 19 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | September 19, 2012 | Michael Graham
    You may recall that during the GOP primaries I ran a web site called AnyoneButMitt.com. Having watched the stumbling, inept, ham-fisted campaigning of Mitt Romney the past few days, perhaps now you understand why. The comment Mitt made about not caring about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income taxes and/or who are on the dole was one of the worst, most self-destructive comments I’ve ever heard from a politician. If — as I hope — Romney goes on to defeat President Barack Obama, it may be credited to what George Washington described as the “hand of...
  • Romney's "Secret Video" and the Dem Politics of "Squirrel!"

    09/19/2012 3:50:29 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 18 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 19, 2012 | MIchelle Malkin
    Democrats need to change their party mascot from the donkey to the squirrel. They divert the media's and the electorate's short attention spans with fleeting, fuzzy objects -- like the main canine character in the animated Pixar movie "Up," who was easily distracted from his main thoughts and serious duties by every last little moving trifle. Embassy attacks? Quick, find a squirrel! Warnings ignored? Squirrel! American troops killed by long-plotting jihadis exploiting security weaknesses? Squirrel! First Amendment sabotage by White House officials in the name of political correctness? Squirrel! Chronic joblessness, high gas prices, exploding dependency? Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! As...
  • Critical audio gap in “complete” Romney tape released by Mother Jones

    09/18/2012 10:44:54 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 29 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | September 18, 2012 | Professor William A. Jacobson, esquire
    Turns out tape cuts out part of controversial Romney answer. David Corn of Mother Jones released the “complete” audio and video of the secretly recorded Mitt Romney speech at a private fundraiser. Yet the complete audio and video is not complete. There is a gap in the recording immediately after Romney’s now famous discussion of the 47% of voters who don’t pay taxes. The cut in the audio and video comes while Romney is in mid-sentence, so we actually do not have the full audio of what Romney said on the subject. The next audio/video (Part 2) picks up with...
  • US election: Jimmy Carter's [unemployed] grandson helped leak Mitt Romney video

    09/18/2012 12:33:10 PM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 50 replies
    Telegraph - UK ^ | September 18, 2012 | Raf Sanchez, Washington
    Jimmy Carter's unemployed grandson has said he helped leak damaging video footage of Mitt Romney in retaliation for the Republican's habit of maligning his grandfather on the campaign trail. .......As the story exploded, Mr Carter emailed his 87-year-old grandfather to tell him he was behind the revelation that was rocking Mr Romney's campaign. The former president replied "James: This is extraordinary. Congratulations! Papa." The younger Mr Carter was only three when his grandfather was pushed out of the White House by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election but said that he was still angered by Republicans who accused the former...