I wonder how it will all play out now that it's been admitted by David Corn that the tape was doctored.

 Many people are willing to trade their personal freedom for the assurance that government is there to take care of them. These ARE the people who will be voting for Barack Obama.

http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/

Mitt  Romney did not just lose the election by stating the obvious.

Wow this tape was made on May 17.

I wonder what Mother Jones is so worried about that they released it this week.  Obama administration's evident foreign policy incompetence and weakness?

  I doubt that Republicans, even with Romney at the head of the ticket, will lose the South or Bible Belt Midwest.   Where the "moochers" talk will hurt him, I hope, is with the disaffected Independents who are not happy with the economy and who are barely hanging on by their toenails and don't pay federal income taxes because of tax credits aimed at the working poor.  It's the Democrats job to make sure the evidence of Romney's disdain and unconcern for them gets past the cocoon of protection that will be erected around the R candidate by Fox News, the Murdoch-owned newspapers, and other conservative media.

Because once they get a whiff of it, they're not to want Romney to be president.

Something else to ponder: his voice drips with contempt for people who don't pay federal income taxes because either they don't make enough money or they take advantage of tax credits designed to help people at their income level.   Yet MR still refuses to release his tax returns beyond the two-year period when he knew he would be running for president.  For all we know, there are years when he was one of the 47 percent. 

He now has to answer questions and produce details about his tax reform plan.....who it hits and who it benefits.   Or he's toast. 

Interpret that map of USA. Not pretty when you take it further. 

Deep South states pay the least in taxes. If R's want to cut expenditures, the cuts will affect the southern states very hard. If the R's want to increase the tax base, the middle class who are on the low end bubble, will pay taxes. When the Southern populace realize the impact of "boardening", the R's will lose congressional seats and the electorial college. 

Just click on the blue "today" in the first line in the first post.  Or go to Mother Jones.  Or Huffington Post or Talking Points Memo.  Or Slate.  Or Salon.   Or google his recent response at a press conference in S. California today in which he doubles down and has now turned it into a mainstream campaign news story.

Bus, maybe he really is a caring person.   He just isn't able to express it, I guess.   What bothers me the most is not the callousness of dismissing the working poor and poor as entitlement whores and victim-losers......it's the willful clueless ignorance that these 47 percent are Obama voters.    A lot of them aren't.   They're struggling Americans of the persuasion he professes to really care about: Republican voters.   He just isn't equipped to consider the scope of his denigrating comments before he says them.  As we have seen again and again and again. 

As Colin Powell would say (has said), "Come on, Mitt. Think!"

It's so Romney.

Clueless and inaccurate.

Of the 47 percent who don't pay income tax, of course not all of them are Obama voters.    They are often senior citizens living only on social security, without big nest eggs; they are minimun wage workers struggling to cobble together a living working more than one job; they are college students working to pay bills, and underemployed young adults.   They are people swept out of work by the recession who got some temporary tax abatement as part of the Obama stimulus.  

And some of them vote Republican.   Maybe they still will.   But the wafflers....the independents.....if the Democrats use this video to their advantage, it will be devastating.

Because not only does Romney bring, in the words of one blogger, Tea Party rhetoric to a new and stupid level, he adds that he doesn't care about these people. 

Thought "You didn't build that" was effective? (Not)

Try: "If you're struggling to make ends meet on a minimum wage, Mitt Romney doesn't care about you."

"If you don't pay income tax because you only receive Social Security, Mitt Romney doesn't care about you."

"If you got some temporary help from paying taxes so you could get back on your feet, Mitt Romney doesn't care about you>"

 "If you're a college student, trying to earn a living and pay off your student loans, Mitt Romney doesn't care about you."

That's what I would do if I was running the opposition campaign.

And, true to form, the far-right now in control of the Republican party will double down and defend it. 

He lost this election way before now.  He lost when he swung way to the right instead of moving to the center.  If he hadn't caved into the tea party, he would have a crushing victory over Obama.  The Republican party with these bozos has become totally inept except for their ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Umm.. demographics have a good bit to do with that kind of map and their voting patterns.

jazzy, seriously: doesn't it kind of creep you out when the minority leader of the House, a democrat, crows "Medicare is going to win back the house for us"? I mean, I understand it's politics and all but...  doesn't that, knowing what we both know about the sustainability of Medicare's financing model and the economic realities of the country, kind of creep you out? That a party, if you were looking for an analogy, looks nothing so much as like a parent that's crippled their kid just so they'll hang around and not leave them all alone?

You know what might lose PBO the campaign? This constant juvenile drumbeat about how horrible Romney is.

People are not that stupid.  In a week of crisis in the world, a "spontaneous demonstration"" based on a video" which just happened to take place on 9/11, Obama is off par-tay-ing with Beyonce and J-Z, and all we are hearing about in the news is ROMNEY ROMNEY ROMNEY.

Democrat partisans are looking ridiculous.