Alien Space Bats wrote:Sane Outcasts wrote:
Totally called it:
There we have it, Romney has decided the best course of action is not just to own up to the comments, but to say they are a reflection of his campaign message. I'm don't think he wants his message to be "I don't care about half the country", but I don't know what other message his remarks could "reflect".
He really doesn't have a choice; it's not like he can "unsay" what he said at Marc Leder's house in May - he'd break his Etch-a-Sketch trying.
Still, there may be a little wriggle room. He can say something like this:"That 47% number I gave - I meant Democrats, not people who don't pay taxes. If it seemed like I was saying that Obama's supporters were all those people out there who don't pay taxes, that wasn't what I meant. What I meant is that most Democrats don't pay taxes, while most Republicans do. Are there Republicans who don't pay taxes? Sure. The military - they're almost all Republicans, and they don't pay taxes on combat pay, nor should they. Senior citizens don't pay taxes on most of their Social Security, and that's a benefit they earned - so obviously I don't mean them, either.
"But Democrats as a group are selfish. They want government to give them free stuff, which is why they're Democrats. They tax good, hard-working Republicans and independents to get the money they need to pay for the stuff they want because they don't want to work for a living - that's what 'tax and spend' is all about. They'll never vote for me because I'm not going to giver them free stuff. They're takers, and they think they deserve to take what they need from everybody else because they think that society owes it to them, because they see themselves as victims.
"The rest of us - hard-working, self-reliant Republicans and independents - we're society's makers. Without us, society would collapse. The Democrats - the takers - they'll tax us to death and strangle society until its gone, and then sit in the ruins and cry because there's nothing left to take. We makers - we Republicans - we have to save the Nation for the next generation by defeating them. We have to stop government from giving them free stuff and make the Democrats - the takers - start working for themselves. That's going to be hard on them, make no mistake about it. They're going to scream, they're going to protest, they're going to riot, and who else knows what they'll do. But we have to stand strong, and see the change through. We have to force the takers, the Democrats, to fend for themselves, if not for their own good then so there's something left for the future, for our children. We have to tell people: 'You want a roof over your head? Earn it. You want food? Earn it. You want health care? Earn it. You want college? Work your way through, or find a way to get by without it, the way our parents and grandparents did. Nothing is free, and what we makers, we Republicans, have is not yours to take. We earned it, it's ours, and if you want something for yourself, you'll just have to go work to get it, like everybody else."
Yeah, that would make the political world explode. But it's pretty much the only course left for Mitt Romney at this point.
And then he's off to some gulch in Colorado to wait while the world burns. Him and Paul Ryan and Rand Paul and his old man and maybe a few other "makers" like Trump and Sandy Weill and that Cathy fellow who makes chicken sandwiches and Jamie Dimon. Yeah.
