Mr. Irrelevant Doubles Down on 47% Comments

And the Republicans wonder why minorities are running away from their party. If Obama gets elected and serves his constituency with policies that help them to achieve some measure of success in their lives, the Right sees them as getting "free stuff".
When the Republicans get elected, they handout huge tax breaks to their wealthy donors, large corporate subsidies, tax loopholes benefiting specific wealthy donors, and these aren't considered give always. Elections have winners and losers. In the most recent election, the people won not the wealthy class. Sorry, your handouts will have to wait until at least the next election.


BY DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — 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.

"The president's campaign, if you will, focused on giving targeted groups a big gift," Romney said in a call to donors on Wednesday. "He made a big effort on small things."

Romney said his campaign, in contrast, had been about "big issues for the whole country." He said he faced problems as a candidate because he was "getting beat up" by the Obama campaign and that the debates allowed him to come back.

In the call, Romney didn't acknowledge any major missteps, such as his "47 percent" remarks widely viewed as denigrating nearly half of Americans, his lack of support for the auto bailout, his call for illegal immigrants to "self-deport," or his change in position on abortion, gun control and other issues. He also didn't address the success or failure of the campaign's strategy of focusing on the economy in the face of some improvement in employment and economic growth during the months leading up to Election Day.

Obama won the popular vote by about 3.5 million votes, or 3 percent, and won the Electoral College by a wide margin, 332-206 electoral votes. Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks showed that Obama led Romney by 11 percentage points among women and won better than 7 of 10 Hispanic voters and more than 9 of 10 black voters.

Romney called his loss to Obama a disappointing result that he and his team had not expected, but he said he believed his team had run a superb campaign. He said he was trying to turn his thoughts to the future, "but, frankly, we're still so troubled by the past, it's hard to put together our plans for the future."


Romney's finance team organized the call to donors. The Los Angeles Times first reported Romney's remarks.

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.

"I'm very sorry that we didn't win," he told donors. "I know that you expected to win. We expected to win. We were disappointed; we hadn't anticipated it."

Romney said he and his team were discussing how his donor group could remain connected and have an influence on the direction of the Republican Party and even the selection of a future nominee – "which, by the way, will not be me."

 

You can't beat Santa Claus.

 

You can't be the Grinch that stole everything either.

 

Please tell me no one here is naive enough to think that the 2 partys don't give gifts, in the form of legislation, to shore up their electorates. Blacks, Hispanics, young people, old rich guys, whatever. It is not politically smart for Romney to point it out but the election is over and he ain;t running again.

 

Gingrich, Bachmann 2016!

 

I think Anthony Weiner is going to make a comeback and rise to the occasion. VOTE FOR A. WEINER will be his battle cry:

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For VP, the rising star in the Dem party is none other than, yes you know who it is, that Kennedy-wannabe Rod Blagojovech. He will probably be out of jail in time for the primaries, but he won't be able to sit down since he was someone's bitch inside the pen.

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They could be mentored by that old grandfather of the Democratic Party, Jimmy Carter. Yes, that guy who had useless ideas while he was president and now just wanders around aimlessly looking for his keys. Or, for that matter, Peanut Farmer Jimmy could run again, too! That might upset the Weiner. Carter is clueless when you're talking about "weiner". He thinks it has something to do with the "lust in his heart" and a bottle of Viagra. Go take a nap, Jimmy.

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Carter is clueless when it comes to "weiner" because unlike most members of the Republican party he doesn't have the "weiner" of big business in his ass and mouth all the time.

 

Anything they can do to try and change the subject eh. That fits perfectly with the definition of brain dead ideologues that refuse to intelligently discuss topics so they have to talk about something that doesn't challenge their warped ideologies. I am continually reminded of the people that kept supporting the Third Reich as Berlin was falling all around them. Yeah, they were very loyal, loyal to stupidity.

 

The very definition of a conservative.