http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/mitt-romney-47-percent-denial
First, Romney blamed his initial botched response to the video—his bungled, impromptu press conference the night Mother Jones released the video—on a misperception of what was on the video:
[Romney] was in California and said at first he couldn't get a look at the video. His advisers were pushing him to respond as quickly as he could. "As I understood it, and as they described it to me, not having heard it, it was saying, 'Look, the Democrats have 47 percent, we’ve got 45 percent, my job is to get the people in the middle, and I've got to get the people in the middle,'" he said."And I thought, 'Well, that’s a reasonable thing.'... It's not a topic I talk about in public, but there's nothing wrong with it. They've got a bloc of voters, we've got a bloc of voters, I've got to get the ones in the middle. And I thought that that would be how it would be perceived—as a candidate talking about the process of focusing on the people in the middle who can either vote Republican or Democrat.As it turned out, down the road, it became perceived as being something very different."Whoa. He first thought the video only showed him stating the obvious? That Obama had his voters, Romney had his supporters, and the small percentage in between was up for grabs? Well, that would have hardly caused a fuss.But here's what doesn't track: When the video was posted, an article accompanied the video with a transcript of what Romney had said. Anyone with a smart phone could access the video and the transcript of his remarks, in which he stated: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 to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what… These are people who pay no income tax..."[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
there is no way after all this time and the many recast of that gaffe and his own ego that he has heard what he said a million times, he is going to lie all the way to his grave, if he is that unstable and actually believes the lie we should be thankful he is where he is and not where we would know.
Had Romney read these words, he would have known this comment went far beyond a recitation of the basic political dynamics. It was an expression of scorn for those voters supporting Obama, with Romney clearly dismissing them as lazy freeloaders who refused to "take personal responsibility."The president said he's writing off 47 percent of Americans and so forth. And that wasn't at all what was intended. That wasn't what was meant by it. That is the way it was perceived.How else could his remark have been perceived? He clearly slammed 47 percent of Americans for not taking care of themselves—and added that there wasn't much he could do about that.
did he just blame our lying ears and our faulty perception of what he said? things like this are what made him lose promoted by his mouth.
