Romney: 47% of Americans are losers, don't care about 'em

[katmai]

I just chalk it up to spellus being spellus.

[Queequeg]

I just chalk it up to spellus being spellus.

Multiple windows open. 

[DGuller]

Jesus Christ.  If tape of Mitt Romney comes out tomorrow where he says that 99% of Americans are vile trash that he dreads having to deal with, 40% of Americans are going to attack Obama for turning so many Americans into vile trash, and praise Mitt Romney for being so candid on hidden camera.

[CountDeMoney]

The Pennsylvania GOP manage to meld the Voter ID issue with Mittens' "47%":

Daryl Metcalfe, a Pennsylvania state House member who originally sponsored the state's voter ID law that is currently in legal limbo, said on a local radio station Wednesday morning that the state shouldn't be responsible for people who are too "lazy" to obtain the needed ID.

"Ultimately, the burden isn't on the state to make sure every individual does what they need to get their ID card. I mean, individuals have certain responsibilities in securing their ID," the Republican lawmaker told Pittsburgh radio station KDKA, in a clip circulated by the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. "They have to present the documents needed. The state doesn't have that burden. I think the individual does, and ultimately it's a great travesty of justice to violate the rights of millions to have their legally cast vote protected for the special interests of a few individuals that are too lazy to get out there and get done what they have to to get their ID card."

The host asked whether Metcalfe was convinced that no legitimate voter would be disenfranchised. Metcalfe said he was.

"As Mitt Romney said, 47 percent of the people ... are living off the public dole, living off their neighbors' hard work, and we have a lot of people out there that are too lazy to get up and get out there and get the ID they need. If individuals are too lazy, the state can't fix that. But the process is put in place to get an ID card. There's a free ID available if someone needs one."

Awesome.

[DGuller]

Sometimes I start to wonder if I'm going insane, and if what I perceive as reality is just a cruel attempt by my sick brain to torture my soul.

[mongers]

Sometimes I start to wonder if I'm going insane, and if what I perceive as reality is just a cruel attempt by my sick brain to torture my soul.

Are you sure you emigrated to the right country ?   


edit:
A key advantage of the UK general election is politicians only have three weeks within which to risk letting slip how stupid or venal they actually are.

In the US, you guys get to wade through 2+years of radio gaga/stupid stuff.

[Razgovory]

Sometimes I start to wonder if I'm going insane, and if what I perceive as reality is just a cruel attempt by my sick brain to torture my soul.

Welcome to my world, motherfucker.

[Jacob]

That may turn out to be a winner yet for Romney and the Republicans... it seems that resentment of lazy layabouts and grifters runs pretty strong and resonates a fair bit, so if the Republicans can turn to discourse into being about how lazy people need to work harder, and how the reason hardworking folks are having a difficult time is because the lazy-people-Democrat-constituency are being lazy and dragging everybody down, they'll probably do better than if the discourse is about Romney's personality, character, coolness under pressure, the war on women, or his plans (whatever it is that they actually are).

[DGuller]

Sometimes I start to wonder if I'm going insane, and if what I perceive as reality is just a cruel attempt by my sick brain to torture my soul.

Welcome to my world, motherfucker.

Hey, you're actually nuts.  I'm just wailing for dramatic effect here.

[CountDeMoney]

That may turn out to be a winner yet for Romney and the Republicans... it seems that resentment of lazy layabouts and grifters runs pretty strong and resonates a fair bit, so if the Republicans can turn to discourse into being about how lazy people need to work harder, and how the reason hardworking folks are having a difficult time is because the lazy-people-Democrat-constituency are being lazy and dragging everybody down, they'll probably do better than if the discourse is about Romney's personality, character, coolness under pressure, the war on women, or his plans (whatever it is that they actually are).

It's nothing that hasn't been bandied about for the last 30 years--the resentment demographic has been set in stone.  The needle won't move much either way.

[Ideologue]

I didn't know that was part of the program.  Since we only have one near-term bet, I don't like the idea of potentially getting my $25 in 2020 too.

Then walk away. :shrug:

I's just the first time I've seen that caveat mentioned, probably as it didn't apply to our previous wager.  I'll happily go 150:50 if you like.

[Ideologue]

i am far more offended that the 47% of our dependent population, all but enslaved to the state, do not seem to care and want to find a way out

i suspect that these people wouldve preferred the tories in 1776

Yeah, the UK of 1776 redistributed wealth like mad.

[Ideologue]

Just curious-does anyone else kind of associate themselves with the side they "look like"?  My father is medium height, big nose, broad-shouldered, (had) curly dark-brown hair, fairly thick beard with a lot of body hair.  I'm very tall, blonde, medium-width, massively long limbs, shit beard.  I feel like a Saxon, even though I'm pretty sure my dad (at least as far as phenotype is concerned) is about as purely pre-Germanic as you would get.

I don't know what this question means.  I'm gonna say no since the two people I've fucked the most have been an Asian-American and an African-American, although I guess we all have got black hair.  Politically speaking I don't know what you're asking.  Do I vote for white people?  People of average height?

[dps]

Just curious-does anyone else kind of associate themselves with the side they "look like"?  My father is medium height, big nose, broad-shouldered, (had) curly dark-brown hair, fairly thick beard with a lot of body hair.  I'm very tall, blonde, medium-width, massively long limbs, shit beard.  I feel like a Saxon, even though I'm pretty sure my dad (at least as far as phenotype is concerned) is about as purely pre-Germanic as you would get.

I don't know what this question means.  I'm gonna say no since the two people I've fucked the most have been an Asian-American and an African-American, although I guess we all have got black hair.  Politically speaking I don't know what you're asking.  Do I vote for white people?  People of average height?

Yeah, I don't get the question, either.  I mean, I'm of Irish descent, and I suppose I look the part*, but then both Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil were Irish, too, and looked it, so I can't see what distinction I'm supposed to be drawing.

*Not that an American of Irish descent looks all that noticibly different than a WASP, or an American of German, French, or Polish descent. 

[Ideologue]

I'm guessing he posted in the wrong thread but I wonder what the right one was.  Do we have a biological racism thread going?