...Romney Says Remarks on Voters Help Clarify Position

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Mitt Romney on Tuesday fully embraced the substance of his secretly recorded comments that 47 percent of Americans are too dependent on government, saying that his views helped define the philosophical choice for voters in his campaign against President Obama.

“The president’s view is one of a larger government; I disagree,” Mr. Romney said in an interview on Fox News. “I think a society based on a government-centered nation where government plays a larger and larger role, redistributes money, that’s the wrong course for America.”

The comments were Mr. Romney’s attempt to find some benefit in the political furor after the disclosure of statements he made at a closed fund-raiser in Florida in May, where he spoke of nearly half of Americans who pay no federal income taxes and, in his analysis, would never vote for him.

Those are people, he said at the fund-raiser, who are “dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them.”

more....http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/politics/in-leaked-video-romney-says-middle-east-peace-process-likely-to-remain-unsolved-problem.html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=print

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

1. well, yeah, Mitt

Next thing you know, those starving poor will want food and stuff.

[aletier_v]

2. Gosh, Mitt, why didn't you just say so ihe the first place...

like during the Republican debates?

Or the convention?

[RobertEarl]

3. Yes, Mitt, we know

You don't want to pay any tax.

[cr8tvlde]

4. I'm sure I'm expressing Republican points of view, coincidentally, that he should just STFU.