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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 1933026" data-attributes="member: 1132">You'll not get any argument from me that Romney is a flopper, he is. Everyone knows he is and anyone who says different is deluding themselves. However, if you take the entire quote in context, his apologies are really about deflecting the media machine's depiction of him as a soulless automaton. Face facts, Obama has been heavily preaching the government nanny state WILL take care of everyone. He's also been demonizing the rich quite heavily, particularly because they've refused to reinvest in U.S. growth while he's been threatening to tax the hell out of it and breathe down their backs with further regulations across the board. The rich aren't buying what he's selling and he's pissed about it. He never tried to work with them and it's been 100% his way or the highway.   Now add some context to that statement. It isn't about the entire populace. If Obama had 47% of the entire population voting for him, there wouldn't be a race. No one would go up against those odds with any realistic expectation of winning. It's the 47% of potential voters he's talking about, which is a much different number. He's absolutely correct. They don't pay any taxes. They get all kinds of benefits from those who do pay taxes, and they got them from liberals like Obama. Yes, they will vote for Obama. So when he says it's not his job to worry about those people, it's his job as a candidate he's talking about, not his job as President. Read the critical part analytically:If you consider this quote within the framework of his job as a candidate (you know, the job he's doing in that room to raise funds for his candidacy), he's 100% correct. He's never getting their votes so he can't worry about them. He has to focus on those undecideds in the middle to make his campaign work. I think he has too many chickens counted before they hatch on the Republican side. Many of us are not happy that he's "our" candidate and the ONLY thing that will bring many to the polls is how bloody awful Obama is. He's counting on the evil specter that is Obama to get him the "base" votes he also needs, rather than actually being a good candidate for them. So yes, he's backing away from his remarks. They've been misconstrued in the media to mean he won't care about 47% of the country when he's in office, when his sizable record of philanthropy would indicate otherwise. It's the one thing he really hasn't flopped on.</blockquote>

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