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That F***ing Liar Romney. He Meant His 47% Comment!

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While running for President, Mitt Romney made the famous “47%” comment in which it sounded like he viewed nearly half the population—those who receive government benefits—as basically loafers, freeloaders, and other and ne’er do wells. He later said that what he said was poorly worded and didn’t really reflect his beliefs (though a reading of the statement in context tended to show that they did).

Now that the election is over, Romney has been caught in another moment of candor in a conference call to financial backers saying things that are, at the very least, congruent with the least flattering interpretation of his 47% comments.

The following is excerpted from Mitt Romney: Obama Won With ‘Gifts’ To Blacks, Hispanics, Young Voters found at HuffingtonPost.com.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is telling top donors that President Barack Obama won re-election because of the “gifts” he had already provided to blacks, Hispanics and young voters and because of the president’s effort to paint Romney as anti-immigrant….

(skipping ahead)

Among the “gifts” Romney cited were free health care “in perpetuity,” which he said was highly motivational to black and Hispanic voters as well as for voters making $25,000 to $35,000 a year.

Romney also said the administration’s promise to offer what he called “amnesty” to the children of illegal immigrants – what he termed “the so-called DREAM Act kids” – helped send Hispanics to the polls for Obama.

Young voters, Romney said, were motivated by the administration’s plan for partial forgiveness of college loan interest and being able to remain on their parents’ health insurance plans. Young women had an additional incentive to vote for Obama because of free contraception coverage under the president’s health care plan, he said.



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