Romney speaks the truth (sparks outrage)

[Ol'Skool Classic]

Look, its a tough pill to swallow but Romney was dead on.

Read this little column by Dick Morris.

There is no sin greater in a presidential race than telling the truth. Romney is being excoriated for accurately describing the situation in America today. Here are the stats:
*49% of all Americans pay no fed income tax
*47% receive a check from the government of which more than half are means tested welfare checks (Medicaid, welfare, food stamps, etc.)
*36% of all Americans of working age are either not working or looking for work.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/18/mitt-romney-gets-it-right/#ixzz26v1Zv8pu

Personally, I just dont see what he said was so bad. I think there is a lot of false outrage over this.

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And you're the same dude who asked just the other day what have you ever posted that could be considered as suspect, so of course you would be the ONLY individual here who would think this is not off the rails and an out of touch with reality viewpoint...

 

[Blacktiger2005]

Romney has to realize one truth, he cannot fight the press who are stacked against him. I for one will not vote for him or Obama. I will throw away my vote by writing in Johnson.

 

[Iggy]

yeah after sleeping on it I've come to the opinion that he probably shouldnt have said that (even though its basically true). Therre are folks out there that arent voting for Romney no matter what so why pander to them?

BUt he probably should of kept it to himself and understand that the left wing media is gonna run with it and blow it out of proportion.

 

[Ol'Skool Classic]

yeah after sleeping on it I've come to the opinion that he probably shouldnt have said that (even though its basically true). Therre are folks out there that arent voting for Romney no matter what so why pander to them?

BUt he probably should of kept it to himself and understand that the left wing media is gonna run with it and blow it out of proportion.

Umm hmm. His comments didn't get blown out of proportion. Just like you, he said what he believes to be true because he lives in an out of touch bubble. Unfortunately for both him and you the rest of us who actually live in and function in reality rather than a bubble know the truth far better than either of you.

 

[The Dark King]

Payroll taxes ARE a federal income tax. Are you dense, Iggy???

Dick Morris has made a career out of deliberating confusing the simple minded with subtle lies. He should never be your source for ANYTHING.

Besides the real outrage towards Romney is that if you are a working family with at least 2 kids who earns less than $26,400 (which fits the profile of many families in most Red states), or are a senior citizen who's living off social security, basically if you're ass is POOR, Romney doesn't think it's worth his time to pursue your vote.

Romney thinks the elderly or the working poor walk around thinking they're victims, or believe the government should take care of them while they do nothing.

Romney just lost Florida and Ohio IMO. The presidential election for the most part is already over.

Romney's challenge this election cycle was proving to average Americans that he could relate to their struggles and offer a hope and vision to improve their lives and strengthen the economy.

You don't do that by INSULTING half the U.S. adult population by calling them freeloaders.

Someone forgot to remind Romney that all those working class poor White folk down South are his voting base, and he essentially told them all to go fuck themselves.lol

It aint over till its over. Reagan 1980 fam

 

[The Dark King]

Romney has to realize one truth, he cannot fight the press who are stacked against him. I for one will not vote for him or Obama. I will throw away my vote by writing in Johnson.

How is the press stacked against him? Elaborate

 

[Blacktiger2005]

How is the press stacked against him? Elaborate

Romney has conservative Fox News in his pocket. Obama has liberal ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS in his pocket. 1 to 5. Obama will win with this advantage to get his message out. Nothing wrong with this. Obama has the key to success. Romney has lost. Obama has won.

 

[Frederick]

LOL @ dumb motherfuckers like Iggy. The people that Romney are demonizing are the working poor (60% of the people who pay no federal income tax still pay payroll tax), members of the military, the elderly and the destitute. The fact is that many of the people that he's demonizing would be voting for him too.

The states highlighted in red on this chart show the heaviest distribution of people who don't pay federal income tax.

Surprise, surprise. Those are all red states, in other words, Romney voters. Plenty of the people who don't pay federal income tax are in fact poor and working class whites who vote Republican religiously not just shiftless negroes and hispanics like Romney and the rest of the Republican propagandists.

Seriously, motherfuckers like Iggy are proof that rank and file Republicans don't know shit about shit. Most of the exemptions that the workers who don't pay federal income tax use to avoid paying said tax, such as the Earned Income Tax credit, were instituted by Saint Reagan in his much publicized Tax Reform of 1986. That's right motherfucker, by saying that Romney's comments were "genius," you're pissing all over the legacy of your false Conservative deity.

I won't even get into the fact that while these people don't pay the federal income tax, they still payroll taxes, sales taxes, sin taxes, property taxes etc., which are all regressive. Nor will I venture into the fact that it's farcical for a guy like Romney, who doesn't pay federal income taxes himself, and has done everything to try to cheat the tax code for his entire adult life to turn around and complain about people not paying taxes.

I'll just end this point by saying that it's laughable for somebody who identifies himself as a black man to run around thumping his chest after hearing some thinly, and mean thinly, veiled race baiting bullshit get spouted by a bunch of rich white Republican donors closed doors. I don't know if that negro is afflicted by Stockholm Syndrome or just garden variety insanity and self-loathing, but the shit is fucked up.

 

[Frederick]

Romney has conservative Fox News in his pocket. Obama has liberal ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS in his pocket. 1 to 5. Obama will win with this advantage to get his message out. Nothing wrong with this. Obama has the key to success. Romney has lost. Obama has won.

The Liberal media is myth spouted know nothing parrots. In reality, the majority of them are a bunch of corporatist whores who say whatever they're told to by the multinational conglomerates that own their networks.

 

[z]

The Liberal media is myth spouted know nothing parrots. In reality, the majority of them are a bunch corporatist whores who say whatever they're told to by the multinational conglomerates that own their networks.

Spot on.

PREACH!!!

 

[GQ Brotha]

The states highlighted in red on this chart show the heaviest distribution of people who don't pay federal income tax.

Surprise, surprise. Those are all red states, in other words, Romney voters. Plenty of the people who don't pay federal income tax are in fact poor and working class whites who vote Republican religiously not just shiftless negroes and hispanics like Romney and the rest of the Republican propagandists.

The map says it all.

Its not just Shaquesha in the Housing Projects in Chicago, Detroit and Oakland with 5 baby daddies, collecting section 8 and food stamps on the taxpayers dime.

The 47% also includes a lot of dead set Romney voters as well from Red State America chilling in their double wide.

 

[GQ Brotha]

Romney has to realize one truth, he cannot fight the press who are stacked against him. I for one will not vote for him or Obama. I will throw away my vote by writing in Johnson.

The Liberal media is myth spouted know nothing parrots. In reality, the majority of them are a bunch of corporatist whores who say whatever they're told to by the multinational conglomerates that own their networks.

Spot on.

PREACH!!!

 

[demattha28]

gotta love a dude saying "they" don't pay any taxes; when he won't release his taxes.

 

[Soulthinker]

True,it is just the pure hypocrisy of the Right. Sad they are so hateful that they will not vote for their REAL interests.

 

[Ol'Skool Classic]

Romney has conservative Fox News in his pocket. Obama has liberal ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS in his pocket. 1 to 5. Obama will win with this advantage to get his message out. Nothing wrong with this. Obama has the key to success. Romney has lost. Obama has won.

You forgot about all those right wing talking heads on the radio like Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and others like them. Makes the media representation about even with them thrown in IMO.

 

[GQ Brotha]

Romney has conservative Fox News in his pocket. Obama has liberal ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS in his pocket. 1 to 5. Obama will win with this advantage to get his message out. Nothing wrong with this. Obama has the key to success. Romney has lost. Obama has won.

You forgot about all those right wing talking heads on the radio like Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and others like them. Makes the media representation about even with them thrown in IMO.

Anyone listening to any of those formats and folks for actual critical news would be better served believing in the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot were given birth to by Martians who came to Earth and dropped them off.

 

[Ol'Skool Classic]

Anyone listening to any of those formats and folks for actual critical news would be better served believing in the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot were given birth to by Martians who came to Earth and dropped them off.

Explains why you have a segment of the population out there that believe Obama is a Muslim and was born in Kenya. Not that most of them needed certain media outlets to put that kind of logic in their heads to begin with.

 

[Jase]

Romney pissed off a lot of people. And comments like that are rich (pun intended) coming from a guy who won't release his tax returns, whose company tried to exploit every tax loophole it could find, and hides his wealth in offshore bank accounts.

Fred said it best, people such as the seniors, people living below the poverty line, veterans, etc make up the majority of those who don't pay income tax. More specifically white males who only achieved high school degrees. And more of then live in red states than anywhere. Not to mention thousands of millionaires. And just because you don't pay income tax doesn't mean you pay NO taxes.

The only ones defending Romney's comments are die hard conservatives who would probably have a stroke if they actually tried having a fact based thought on their own. And even then there are plenty of conservatives who have come down on him.

Romney's unfavorables are rising, Obama is out-polling him in pretty much every battle state, including Virginia. His overseas trip was a disaster and an embarrassment, the Republican National convention could have put a meth head to sleep, his Libya response was so juvenile and opportunistic even the media seemed disgusted, and these recently released video comments did him no favors. Not to mention the fact people in general, including conservatives, can't stand Mitt Romney. They just hate Obama.

At this point the only strategy Republicans have left is riling up their base with dog whistles and coded language, class warfare, trying to suppress the vote in whatever swing state they feel they can getaway with, rely on their billionaire benefactors, and exploiting the ignorance of their increasingly moronic base.

The funny thing is they're most likely still going to lose.

 

[The Dark King]

Romney pissed off a lot of people. And comments like that are rich (pun intended) coming from a guy who won't release his tax returns, whose company tried to exploit every tax loophole it could find, and hides his wealth in offshore bank accounts.

Fred said it best, people such as the seniors, people living below the poverty line, veterans, etc make up the majority of those who don't pay income tax. More specifically white males who only achieved high school degrees. And more of then live in red states than anywhere. Not to mention thousands of millionaires. And just because you don't pay income tax doesn't mean you pay NO taxes.

The only ones defending Romney's comments are die hard conservatives who would probably have a stroke if they actually tried having a fact based thought on their own. And even then there are plenty of conservatives who have come down on him.

Romney's unfavorables are rising, Obama is out-polling him in pretty much every battle state, including Virginia. His overseas trip was a disaster and an embarrassment, the Republican National convention could have put a meth head to sleep, his Libya response was so juvenile and opportunistic even the media seemed disgusted, and these recently released video comments did him no favors. Not to mention the fact people in general, including conservatives, can't stand Mitt Romney. They just hate Obama.

At this point the only strategy Republicans have left is riling up their base with dog whistles and coded language, class warfare, trying to suppress the vote in whatever swing state they feel they can getaway with, rely on their billionaire benefactors, and exploiting the ignorance of their increasingly moronic base.

The funny thing is they're most likely still going to lose.

Ronald Reagan 1980 homie. Don't under estimate him or the stupidity of this country

 

[Jase]

Ronald Reagan 1980 homie. Don't under estimate him or the stupidity of this country

After Bush got re-elected in 2004 I'll never underestimate how many idiots we have in this country. But Ronald Reagan of 1980 would be seen as a liberal by 2012 Republicans and conservatives, if he were alive and running for election today, no matter how much they love worshiping him.