The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Remember Mitt Romney's 47% comments? What kind of question is that? Of course you remember. Even if I had been in a coma during the entire duration of election season and woke up with Alzheimer's, I'd still remember. Well, unfortunately for Mitt Romney, he's appearing to be in denial about those very comments. As reported in the Washington Post , the following excerpt can be read in reporter Dan Balz's new book, Collision 2012 : [Romney] was in California and said at first he couldn't get a look at the video. His advisers were pushing him to respond as quickly as he could. "As I understood it, and as they described it to me, not having heard it, it was saying, 'Look, the Democrats have 47 percent, we've got 45 percent, my job is to get the people in the middle, and I've got to get the people in the middle,'" he said. "And I thought, 'Well, that's a reasonable thing.' ... It's not a topic I talk about in public, ...

Mitt Romney is back in the news. I know, I missed him too. Mr. 47% himself had the following back and forth with Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday: Romney: "We did very well with the majority population, but not with the minority populations, and that was a failing, that was a real mistake." Wallace: "Why do you think that was?" Romney: "Well, I think the Obamacare attractiveness and feature was something we underestimated, particularly among lower incomes. And, uh, just didn't do as good a job in connecting with that audience as we should have." This man has to be one of the most awkward public speakers in recent memory. The man's words probably makes robots give themselves a facepalm. When he proposed to his wife Ann, I imagine the Mittster did so by saying something like the following: "Ann, we've been spending a lot of time together over the past however long it's been, and been fornicating quite regularly. When we...

More information has been released regarding his recent call to donors, where he stated that the reason President Obama won was because of his gifts to minorities, women, and young people. In addition to that, Romney provided his insights on the Republican primary process and how it should be changed in the future: "...[the GOP should] agree that we're gonna do, you know, I don't know, eight debates, and we're gonna, we're gonna do one a month, and we're gonna pick stations that are reasonable, it's not all gonna be done by CNN and NBC, alright, I mean we're gonna try and guide this process that it's designed to showcase the best of our people as opposed to showcasing liberals beating the heck out of us." Here we go again - blaming the "liberal" media for defeat! Considering Republican candidates have won five of the past nine presidential elections, I have a difficult time believing that claim. The "liberal" media must ...

Joe Bush: "Do you see that building over there, little Joey?" Joey Bush: "Yeah..." Joe: "I built that." Joey: "Really? All by yourself?" Joe: "That's right!" Joey: "How long ago was that?" Joe: "Well, your great-grandpa is the one that started it, so it's been around for a while now." Joey: "...and you built that?" Joe: "You betcha. ...and someday, when you're my age, you'll get to tell people the same thing - that you built that." Joey: "Wow. I'm gonna build a lot of things, aren't I, dad?" Joe: "You bet you are! You already have!" Joey: "I have? Like what, dad?" Joe: "That backpack you wear every day to school - you built that!" Joey: "Really?" Joe: "Yeah - you put it on your back and made it work, right?" Joey: "That's right!" Joe: ...

Mitt Romney is at it again! During a May private meeting with donors in Boca Raton, Republican nominee Mitt Romney told his wealthy audience that it wasn't his job to worry about the 47% whom didn't pay federal income taxes. They were moochers, solely dependent upon the government and wouldn't vote for him anyway. As it was a private meeting, Mr. Romney was unaware that it was being recorded and that it would circulate the internet and airwaves more than lesbians scream when they see Justin Bieber. This resulted in his approval numbers falling harder than Dane Cook does for himself. Romney then attempted to suggest that he didn't really mean what he said during that private meeting and he would represent 100% of the people. Following the beat-down Romney suffered on election day, he decided to suggest to fund-raisers and donors that Obama only beat him because of how generous he was with his gift-giving to certain key demographics - namely blacks, Latinos and young ad...

I haven't heard many in the media mention this bit of irony, but upon hearing that the third and final presidential debate will be held in Boca Raton, Florida on Monday, I busted out laughing. Why did I find this bit of news so funny? That's because in the third and final debate, about two weeks prior to the election, will be held in Boca Raton, where Mitt Romney provided his donors and via a leaked audio tape, millions of Americans, his 47% comments. That's right - "47%" took place in Boca Raton, Florida.  How perfect is that? This sounds too good to be true. While the debate will largely focus on foreign policy, it'd be a crime if the "47%" comments weren't mentioned at least once. Obama has been handed a golden opportunity. If and when Romney attacks him for his bowling skills or whatever is on his mind at the moment, the president can simply respond with, "That reminds me. I love Boca Raton. I think you do too, don't you, Go...

It only took 17 days. Not long after the "47%" video made its rounds on the web and television, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke at a conference that the words he used in the video were "not elegantly stated." He seemed to continue with this language for the coming few days, even defending the accuracy of his video comments, before realizing that this strategy was doing him no good and began telling the American people that he was about the "100%." However, he refused to apologize or admit he was wrong about his remarks. Through these 17 days, Mitt Romney saw polls which showed the gap widening between he and President Obama. He saw other polls which illustrated just how much his "47%" comments had hurt him. Then, 17 days after the onset of the video, he finally altered his tune. Last Thursday night on Fox News, Romney said this: "Well, clearly in a campaign, with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-...

Remember when President Barack Obama was taken out of context when he uttered the words "You didn't build that"? Remember how speakers at the Republican National Convention mainly focused on that quote? Well, in a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that was just released today, it found that in light of Obama's before-mentioned quote, 36% of the public said it made them feel more positive about the president, 32% said more negative and 26% said that it didn't make much of a difference. On the quote the Republican Party spent so much of their time on - throughout all three nights of their convention and to read that Obama was actually viewed more favorably (+4) in light of said quote, it must be quite the sensation they're feeling right now. The poll tells a different tale regarding Mitt Romney's 47% comments, as 23% felt more positively about the Republican presidential candidate, 45% more negatively and 24% said there wasn't much of a difference in ho...

As most every person knows by now, including babies whom have yet to be born as well as chimpanzees, Mitt Romney was quoted in a Boca Raton May fundraiser as saying, "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right - there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing." Now it's his running mate - Paul Ryan's turn, who said the following at a keynote address at The American Spectator's  2011 Robert L Bartley Gala Dinner: "Seventy percent of Americans want the American dream. They believe in the American idea. Only 30 percent want the welfare state. Before too long, we could become a society where the net majority of Americans are takers, not makers." Perhaps the two of them can join forces, come to a comp...

A few days ago, I got into a discussion with someone about Mitt Romney's "47%" comment(s). This person insisted that Democrats were the only ones who cared about this comment, this number spouted by the Republican presidential candidate. As I had thought at the time, he was wrong. In a new Washington Post /ABC News poll, it showed that 54% of registered voters viewed Romney's "47%" comments unfavorably, while 33% viewed them favorably. With registered independents, 57% viewed the former Massachusetts Governor's comments in a negative light. Similar numbers could be seen in like polls taken in the battleground states of Florida, Colorado and Wisconsin. In Florida, 58% of independents viewed Romney's comments unfavorably, compared to 37% who viewed them favorably. Among Colorado independents, a whopping 37% of them said the comments made them less likely to vote for Romney. That number in Wisconsin was even greater, as 39% of independents said they...

When in a discussion about Romney's "47%" comments and providing evidence that the Republican candidate was inaccurate with his numbers and whom they represented, I was told to "stop thinking like a Democrat" and told that the only people who care about that "47%" are Democrats. I then provided proof this wasn't entirely accurate, as many conservative pundits have criticized Romney for his remarks, including: David Brooks, Joe Scarborough, David Frum, former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, Mark McKinnon, Bill Kristol, etc. Several Republican politicians have distanced themselves from Romney since those remarks were made public. I guess my question is, how does one define "thinking like a Democrat" or on the opposite side, "thinking like a Republican?" My intent with my research and fact-checking was not to come across as partisan. It was not my intent to "think like a Democrat." It was simply my intent to get to ...

Mitt Romney is something else. Upon video footage being released of him telling some large donors that he won't worry about 47% of the American population, since he has no chance to win their vote (not true, as Obama only leads with these voters by a 49-43% margin) and standing by that for a few days, the Republican Presidential nominee is now saying he represents 100% of the people in this country. Let's run through this series of events: 1) Romney tells large donors at a private fundraiser that 47% of the population doesn't matter and without his knowledge, someone records the speech 2) The tape gets fully released 4 months later 3) Romney faces major backlash due to the tape and this can be seen both in poll numbers and heard from liberal and conservative politicians and talking heads alike 4) Romney more or less stands by what he said in the tape for a few days 5) Romney then tells the public that he supports not just 53% of them, but all 100% of them Yeah...

Once again, as I predicted with regard to Mitt Romney's "47%" comments, he's found himself at an even steeper uphill climb than prior to the video's release. Two polls came out today to illustrate that - from Gallup and Reuters. In the Gallup poll, by nearly a two to one ratio, respondents stated they were now less likely to vote for Romney in the November election due to the video - 36% saying they were less likely, while 20% said they were more likely to vote for the Republican candidate. The ratio was even closer to two to one when it came to Independents - 29% saying they were less likely to vote for Romney and 15% saying they were more likely to vote for him.  The numbers were even more striking in the Reuters poll, where it showed that 43% of registered voters have a less favorable view of Mitt Romney following the video's release. Another 59% said the Republican candidate was being unfair to the 47% of Americans he made remarks about in the video...

In light of the "47%" comment, I've heard that Mitt Romney is set to release a new ad, which goes something like this: "It's sad that due to the current administration's policies, 47% of this nation is fully dependent on government. Even  though a Gallup Poll shows Obama only leads me among these people by a 49-43% margin, it's quite obvious they're all Obama supporters and I really have no need for them. Who needs polls or fact-checkers? They're all liberally-biased anyway - especially those Fox News Polls and also the dictionary. This reminds me of a story of a boy - we'll call him Mitt - who built everything himself without any help along the way. His father - we'll call him George - may have paid for his boy's boarding school, college, graduate school, first home and well, I should probably stop right there. Yes, the boy in the story is me - Mittens Willard Romney. I used to be of the 47% in a way, but now am not, so I don't...