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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnd now a message from sore fucking racist loser Mitt:
By Igor Volsky
Mitt Romney is attributing his loss in the 2012 election to the gifts President Obama gave to minority voters, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. Speaking to donors on Wednesday, the former Massachusetts governor praised his own campaign, but speculated that Obama won because he was very generous to his base:
Mitt Romney told his top donors Wednesday that his loss toPresident Obama was a disappointing result that neither he or his top aides had expected, but said he believed his team ran a superb campaign with no drama, and attributed his rivals victory to the gifts the administration had given to blacks, Hispanics and young voters during Obamas first term.
Obama, Romney argued, had been very generous to blacks, Hispanics and young voters. He cited as motivating factors to young voters the administrations plan for partial forgiveness of college loan interest and the extension of health coverage for students on their parents insurance plans well into their 20s. Free contraception coverage under Obamas healthcare plan, he added, gave an extra incentive to college-aged women to back the president. [...]
The Presidents campaign, he said, focused on giving targeted groups a big giftso he made a big effort on small things. Those small things, by the way, add up to trillions of dollars.
The comments echo the claims Romney made during a private high-dollar fundraiser earlier this year. In the video first published by Mother Jones, Romney argued that 47 percent of Americans are dependent upon government.
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UPDATE
The New York Times has more quotes: Our campaign, in contrast, was talking about big issues for the whole country military strategy, foreign policy, a strong economy, creating jobs and so forth, he said. And by the way, as youll hear from Neil, our strategy worked well with many people, but for those who were given a specific gift, if you will, our strategy did not work terribly well.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/11/14/1193471/romney-says-obama-only-won-because-he-gave-big-gifts-to-blacks-and-latinos/
It has been a week and one day since President Obama kicked Mitt Romney's ass!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101778182
I'm still celebrating!
chowder66
(9,067 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)and don't forget Big Bird -- that was a grand gift to Obama's base.
Maraya1969
(22,479 posts)And he is admitting that he didn't really have a health care plan.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)His fate is out of my hands, thank goodness.
msongs
(67,403 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)I hope they're somewhere laughing their asses off at this idiot.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)Raksha
(7,167 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)If there is not, don't expect it to have legs.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"If there is not, don't expect it to have legs."
...why does it need "legs"?
Mitt lost! This is purely for entertainment purposes. I proclaim it: laugh at an asshole day.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101768318
Submariner
(12,503 posts)Obama seriously fucked up Mitt's shit at that eyebrow raising moment. That scene will go down in the annals of future debates. Just beautiful.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)Mitty looked like he got caught with his hand down his pants by grandma
crunch60
(1,412 posts)Utah Olympics. I see you take lots of government "gifts", and you think that's just fine for you, because you think you are entitled. NOT!
snip:
With the ABC News revelation of the IOC committee bribery scandal, the fate of the 2002 Olympics on U.S. soil, and a predominately Mormon city in the balance, the organizing committee searched for their white horse to salvage not only the Olympics, but Salt Lake City.
When it came to the Olympics, the relationship between Mitt Romney and the LDS church was symbiotic. The LDS church needed Romney to aid in ushering in the Mormon Kingdom on earth while portraying the Mormon faith as a wholesome, mainstream religion. With his eye on the Office Of the Presidency, and just coming off his loss to Senator Edward Kennedy, Romney needed the LDS church and its vast network to finance, support and promote his political aspirations. Nowhere was this more apparent than the Salt Lake City Olympics the Greatest Show on Earth for the Mormon Church and Mitt Romney all funded in part by you, the U.S. taxpayer.
Quoting an article by David Baumann, "Romney Helped Salvage Olympics." St. Petersburg Times: Sydney Fonnesbeck, who was on the Salt Lake City Council and a friend of Welchs, said, He (Romney) just came in and gathered the money that was already (pledged)
He didnt want to give anyone else any credit. We became nobodies. A lot of us were hurt and angry. It didnt surprise any of us when he ran home and ran for governor.
Mitt didnt save the games. It was a publicity ploy from the beginning to build his platform in politics,
Mitts objection was to look as good as he could.
http://www.christiannewstoday.com/Christian_News_Report_90050069.html
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)Please! The only people he hasn't insulted are rich old Caucasians and their botoxed wives. I want to see the GOP go completely extinct in my lifetime. Please procede...
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)that he is an unlikable excuse for a human being with secret bank accounts that managed to alienate virtually every voting block in America
onethatcares
(16,167 posts)who the fark is this Mitt guy?
Maraya1969
(22,479 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)mucifer
(23,539 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)called Moochers who wouldn't take responsibility. I guess Romney was right about a large number of his voters, they have no self respect or pride.
Dubster
(427 posts)2naSalit
(86,579 posts)flip flop like a dying fish on the dock!! I know that will be the least of his legacy, but those classic shots from that second debate, now those will live on in election infamy.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)since he himself said he supported parents keeping kids on insurance "to whatever age they might like". Obamacare says up to age 26, Mitt says "whatever age they might like". Maybe until age 80? They "might like" that.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Which of your dumbass advisors didn't tell you that?
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)That's because they're illegal immigrants - self-deportation means going back to your original country on your own.
Mitt is the gift that keeps on giving, which is what they used to call syphilis.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)Or self-deport. Or being told tough luck for reproductive rights and equal pay. So they turned out and stuck it to you good.
Asshole.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)"Play the 'gifts/free stuff' angle for all it's worth"
siligut
(12,272 posts)But maybe Mitt actually believes it, after-all, he fell for the lies about Libya and how he was doing in the polls.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts).... this time.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Freedom to not pay taxes - federal, state and local; municipal bonds to be paid by communities and states to beg them to locate and which they use and then leave; subsidies on top of that.
Waivers to pollute and create economic havoc with vertical business structures; permission to outsource and after bankrupting communities, come back to buy the looted areas for a penny; Freedom to not be held accountable because they are corporations and it's propriety knowledge; freedom to steal the land, water, resources and public infrastructure to line their own pockets and that of their supporters.
I'm sure that's just half the Christmas gifts they've been giving themselves while stealing the money and future of the majority. They point their fingers at those they've robbed and say it was their fault, like every other successful psychopath.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Do us all a favor and just go away.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)he is a hateful rich spoiled brat, a scoundrel who cheats on his taxes while honestly feeling oppressed by all of us moochers waiting for our handouts, like the social security benefits we paid for. Now he is bitter rich spoiled brat.
appacom
(296 posts)Megahurtz
(7,046 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)nichomachus
(12,754 posts)I want a new iPhone. You listening, Obama? And make it snappy.
occupymybrain
(74 posts)I am so glad that Obama won because just the sight of Romney makes my stomach turn. Hey Mitt saying things like that is why you lost in the first place. They never learn do they? Thankfully we had a landslide.
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)The biggest "gift" of the campaign was Rmoney revealing his lying, flip-flopping, deceit and contempt for the electorate. No doubt, the President was vulnerable and a very solid candidate might well have eked out a victory... but Rmoney wasn't able to. None of the GOP candidates in the primaries would have--because of the Tea Party kool-aid they were forced to drink to get the nomination.
Hey, if they want to believe their own spin and ignore reality for another cycle... Great, they can choke on it!
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)and getting accountants to figure out how to use that money to avoid taxes? Those gifts?
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Romney would have given exorbitant "gifts" to his billionaire buddies.
Puglover
(16,380 posts)The throught of him laying awake at night wondering "what if" for the rest of his asshole life makes me smile.
catbyte
(34,376 posts)madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)What an ugly world of hurt it would have been if Romney and Ryan had won the election.
JI7
(89,248 posts)president or get elected to any office have to say about this.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)1. The White House
2. Class
3. A clue
Carolina
(6,960 posts)clueless and classless to the end
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)HE HAS MONEY!!!
Isn't that's what it's all about????
Whisp
(24,096 posts)I found an old doll toy in a closet and I cut it's hair and it's sitting beside the phone.
I call it Mitt
and when I walk by or am near I stick my thumb in it's eye.
PCIntern
(25,541 posts)I can visualize that now...
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)That's hilarious! I can picture it too, still laughing...!
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)I hope not, but I suspect he still will. Because he's not a small man. Like Romney. I somehow feel proud and frustrated at the same time.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)does not deserve to be in the same building as our POTUS. The man is a pox and this is one case I hope POTUS says, fuck you mitt!
RVN VET
(492 posts)What would be the point of inviting into the White House a shallow loser who, even in losing, insults POTUS and the 50+ million Americans who voted for him?
cali
(114,904 posts)that at some point last summer, shortly after her "you people" tirade princess Ann said, in front of a bunch of people and press, that she worried about smitten's mental health should he win the election... what, like she was wet dreaming about playing the Eleanor Roosevelt role or something? Like we'd accept a four year term of someone who was obviously unstable or let his little Eddie Munster mini me step into the role?? I think not! That couple is so delusional, nobody should be allowed to put a camera or microphone in front of them, unless unplugged, or repeat their swill thus allowing them to annoy us ever again. Go and visit your money and then stay there!
Spazito
(50,326 posts)no longer any pretense, if there ever really was, to be otherwise.
I, too, am still celebrating and vomitus statements like those of Romney and his rabid racist supporters make me celebrate all the more.
Marr
(20,317 posts)These guys just don't get it. You can't build a platform around xenophobia and racism, and expect anyone but white racists to vote for you. And you can't win an election with the white racist vote alone anymore.
Carolina
(6,960 posts)to that platform...
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)montanto
(2,966 posts)Patiod
(11,816 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)and expected to get nothing in return?
Who said Romney's not funny?
spanone
(135,830 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)Whenever that is, it isn't soon enough!
Bake
Raine
(30,540 posts)them out except he lost.
Blue4Texas
(437 posts)Freddie
(9,265 posts)So where's my free stuff???
What a clueless jackass.
JHB
(37,159 posts)...piling up in some Indiana-Jones warehouse.
malaise
(268,968 posts)Crawl back in that car elevator - you lost big time.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)He and Allan West should have a whine and moan and make lame excuses fest.
So Obama treated average folks with dignity, how dare him.
If there were any justice in this world Romney would have to live poor for a year, see how he likes it.
Just go away Richie Rich.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)byeya
(2,842 posts)"Neener, neener, neener" Miffers rMoney
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)on False Noise.
johnq45
(33 posts)And I am still waiting for my free shit! I can't wait to get my 72 inch flat sreen TV and my Obama phone! Where's my free shit?
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)stamps so that I can celebrate in style.
Seriously, Romney is full of shit. Many of the people who voted for Obama are simply people that don't share Romney's view of the world. A lot of those people that voted for Obama are financially secure, but some aren't - that is why we have an obligation as a society, no one should go hungry and sleep in the cold.
randr
(12,412 posts)The gift of restored pride and respect for our nation.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Yeah Mitt this line of action will serve you and the repukes well ... just like it has in the past.
Idiots
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Oh, wait, did he play The Butler on Mr. Belvedere?
2Design
(9,099 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)Last edited Wed Nov 14, 2012, 09:04 PM - Edit history (1)
At least the bastard can never claim to not be a lying racist piece of shot and ever vet away with it.
CoboWowbo
(32 posts)Beating Mitt Romney.
LibraLiz1973
(8,197 posts)Barack told me that I was special. Apparently he was gifting others?
God damn Mitt Romney is a STUPID PATHETIC AND MORONIC MOTHER FUCKER. Gifts? GIFTS?
I hardly think that making sure people have health care and can collect unemployment or welfare qualifies as a GIFT. But therein lies the problem with Mitt- he didn't give a shit about 47% of the country, and to him allowing them (us) to survive was a gift. That talentless fuckwad doesn't have one ounce of humanity or compassion. Gotta love the GOP.
Fuck you Mittens. Go roam your houses (Or, domeciles that the hard workers of the world GIFTED YOU you miserable prick) and leave our country alone. YOU LOST.
EC
(12,287 posts)We'll just keep winning.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Javaman
(62,521 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Bonkers.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)for the Feds. Obama froze her wages. I'm a teacher. Obama sold my profession out to the Gate's Foundation. Both of us voted for Obama. No bribes were offered. None were required. That this pampered little Chickenhawk prick has the hubris to make such a claim is a hoot.
joeunderdog
(2,563 posts)Something offshore that you can drive your yacht to. Or maybe a huge tax break. Or maybe a loophole or two so you can bankrupt a business and put people on unemployment so that you can fund your uber-white, megalomaniacal needs.
But please, no more for black folks. Enough is enough.
Jamaal510
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murray hill farm
(3,650 posts)Ignore the loser! Then he will go away.
EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)Rocky888
(297 posts)We got one! Yeah!!!
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)Dumbass.
politicasista
(14,128 posts)SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)wanna know why you aren't President Elect Mittiot? Listen to yourself.
The gift we all got was having the President WE wanted voted back in for a second term and you have to go away.
I guess all you're left with is trolling for the office of president of the seceded states...
pansypoo53219
(20,975 posts)and fixing the debt w/ no pain?
libodem
(19,288 posts)That stinks of racism. Ewwwwww. Gross!
TomClash
(11,344 posts)that just kept on giving.
Turborama
(22,109 posts)...into thinking the rich are the have nots.
Fortunately, they failed to brainwash enough voters this election cycle.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)working white people have to pick up the tab"
The seem to still think that the winning strategy is to appeal to the aging angry white male
catbyte
(34,376 posts)Fuck him. I have never been more personally satisfied by the outcome of an election as I was when I was watching a stunned, entitled Romney come to grips with the cold hard truth of having his ass handed to him by the people he despised--us.
Damn I am enjoying this.
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)"Maybe he just gave the 'gift' of not being a patronizing asshole to them. That could have been it."
dem4ward
(323 posts)GET HIM MEDS STAT!
protect our future
(1,156 posts)for college-age women to vote for Obama? It certainly appears that Romney has just insinuated that we women are sluts. Not wise, Mitt, but thanks for reminding us of what Republicans think about females so we'll remember who not to vote for.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)protect our future
(1,156 posts)of Mormons didn't vote for Romney.
southern_belle
(1,647 posts)quaker bill
(8,224 posts)There is nothing you can do with that. Romney will say it was not his fault for some reason, if you argue with this one, he will just come up with another excuse. It will all be lies anyway, may as well let this one ride. The sane know better, and the Rmoney deadenders will believe whatever suits them anyway (gifts, voter fraud, Sandy, Christie, UN mind control, floridation of water...)
You don't spend trillions on birth control, besides, it isn't free, the insurance companies are paying for it, they just aren't charging separately. Using prosecutorial discrection at ICE costs nothing, it costs less than prosecution. We are saving money by not deporting kids. More people on food stamps costs something, but bottom line the republican recession put more people in a place where they qualify. The best choice is to do fewer republican things to the economy.
Ohio Joe
(21,755 posts)Holy. Fucking. Shit.
Of all the fucked up things repugs have said the last few years, this one goes directly to the top ten.
Mitt Romney is one seriously racist fuck.
speedoo
(11,229 posts)And always will be.
sendero
(28,552 posts)... Mitt, do go ahead and double-down on your 47% message. I knew it was from the heart but go ahead and confirm it for the folks who don't yet get it.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)that if Romney knew a camera was running those comments would never have been made. I am sure that Romney didn't expect his conference call comments to big donors to become public information. True to what he is, the bastard returned to form in secret.
One day, I hope the person that taped the 47% comments step forward. The nation owe that person a remarkable debt. If not for that video and the fallout from it, the nation could have elected a true bastard to lead it down a dark path from which it surely wouldn't have recovered.
mzmolly
(50,992 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)genital warts, chlamydiae, athlete's foot, bad breath, scrofula, blackheads, bedsores, flatulence, psoriasis, cold sores, yeast infection, irritable bowel syndrome, scabies, jock itch, erectile dysfunction, morbid obesity, bunions, incontinence.
All President Obama gave me was hope.
vinden
(5 posts)The biggest loser without any clues.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Figaro78
(37 posts)...so they won't be crowned king and queen of America after all. Sad, very sad.
bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)He really is who he says he is ... and it's frightening
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)They give TRILLIONS in WELFARE to their big business and MIC buddies and see nothing wrong with that at all!
I think the repigs have a major problem with the working class, people of color, women and gays getting any help at all.
The teapublican party is for rich white racists, they all make that perfectly clear and that's why AMERICA rejected them a few days ago!
Its a new day repigs, GTFO of America if you don't like it!
Raffi Ella
(4,465 posts)I swear, watching them twist in the wind is just too much fun.
Don C. Nuttin
(84 posts)What he is saying is that if he had meant any of the evanescent promises he made during the campaign, he would have been clear, consistent, and unambiguous. The fact that there were no clear, consistent, and unambiguous promises made during the campaign means that he wasn't going to be held to doing anything for anybody.
And he is proud of that.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)that this horrible man with his horrible wife won't be setting foot in the Oval Office. I think I ended up with a more favorable opinion of George Bush than this dirtbag, and I though Bush was the worst President in modern history.
I won't lie - the thought of Romney in the White House scared me to death. I'm glad we all, collectively, sent this lying asshole and his shrew of a wife packing.
BlueManFan
(256 posts)Please amend your tax return, claim the rest of your deductions so you can drop the "common man" pretense, take your millions and shove them right up your ass, buy your ticket to planet Kolub, and fuck off and never open your filthy racist mouth again. Love, Obama Supporter
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)What amazes me about Mitt Romney is his ability to keep digging himself into a rut. Just when you thought it was over and we wouldn't have to hear from him anymore.
Just go away Mitt.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)noticed how he disrespected the president in the debates. and note his pathetic excuse regarding the mormon chruch's official racist policy. yet another reason why he is unfit to be president. he's even worse than bush the junior
Setsuna1972
(332 posts)Just go play with your secret Swiss bank accounts in the Caymen islands already
Skittles
(153,159 posts)what a racist ASSHOLE