Romney: I Won't Bribe Voters With Handouts Like Obama Does (updated)

[ProSense]

Romney: I Won't Bribe Voters With Handouts Like Obama Does

In his victory speech in Nevada Saturday night, Mitt Romney took his contention that the election is about an "entitlement society" favored by President Obama to a "oppurtunity society" favored by Republicans to its full extreme. Unlike Obama, Romney said, he won't buy off votes with government handouts.

From the delievered remarks, sent to reporters by the Romney campaign:

I will not attempt to bribe the voters with promises of new programs, new subsidies, and ever-increasing checks from government. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most benefits, then I’m not your President. You have that President today.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-i-wont-bribe-voters-with-handouts-like

(emphasis added)

Holy shit!



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[maximusveritas]

1. No, he's just bribing corporations and other privileged special interests with handouts

and he'll use their money and media influence to get voters.

[ProSense]

4. Next Dem ad:

"I will not attempt to bribe the voters with promises of new programs"

"If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most benefits, then I’m not your President. You have that President today."

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Fuck! My bribe must have gotten lost in the mail.

Damned socialized postal service!

[ProSense]

6. Mitt

is a gaffe gold mine. He doesn't just make a gaffe, he strings together series of clueless sentences, and then proceeds to make them worse in trying to explain what he meant.

[tulsakatz]

9. & while trying to explain himself......

....he tells the whole world more about himself & his own limited views!!

Isn't it ironic that in the early part of his campaign he used that Obama statement where he was talking about the McCain team & the economy......which really was taken out of context. And now, every time he screws up, he says he was taken out of context!!

haha....

[ProSense]

10. It's fascinating to watch.

[tulsakatz]

14. haha......

the primaries (caucuses) are the best comedy show on TV!!

[tulsakatz]

15. I liked that interview he had with Laura Ingraham...

...where she asked:
Isn’t it a hard argument to make if you’re saying, like, OK, he inherited this recession, he took a bunch of steps to try to turn the economy around, and now, we’re seeing more jobs, but vote against him anyway? Isn’t that a hard argument to make? Is that a stark enough contrast?

& Romney replied:
Have you got a better one, Laura?

I have never, ever heard a politician say 'have you got a better one?' Usually they have some idea about how to argue for or against an issue....they don't always make sense but that doesn't stop them from trying!

By asking if she had a better one tells me he's not so sure of his position!

[ProSense]

17. That was great.

What I find fascinating is how this absurd statement is being ignored.

[tulsakatz]

21. true.....

I would ask any journalist, name one other time when a politician asked, "have you got a better idea?"

They never say that! Mainly because a politician is supposed to be confident & that statement is not (in any way) confident!

[arely staircase]

3. my dog just barking at the loud whistling sound in her ears. nt

[ProSense]

7. Here's

what Mitt considers a bribe: "new programs" that "promise the most benefits" to voters.

Wonder what he considers his tax cuts for the rich? Seems he doesn't plan on offering any new and beneficial programs for the rest of the voting public so he's right, he's the wrong man for the Presidency. In fact, to quote Mitt: "You have that President today."

Mitt just endorsed Obama 2012.

[virtualobserver]

5. unless you count tax cuts for my Billionaire friends.....

.....it's just common courtesy to give them a good return on their investment in my Superpac.

[tulsakatz]

8. so how's he going to create opportunities?

When he was Gov, MA was third from the bottom in jobs creation!! It seems to me that people would need some kind of job to create opportunities......

If he couldn't create jobs then, why should anyone believe he will do anything different now?

[ProSense]

11. With

"so how's he going to create opportunities?"

..."bribes."

I'm enjoying this.

[tulsakatz]

13. good point!!

I'm enjoying it too!

[6000eliot]

12. Vote for Romney, and you won't get shit!

[ProSense]

16. Unless you're a one percenter. n/t

[Johonny]

18. Remember when Bush promised everyone 300 $

then taxed it. How is promising a tax cut not similar to your analogy Mitt?

Getting the government service I pay for with my taxes isn't bribe, it's promising to make the government work like it is suppose to. What an *.

[ProSense]

19. Yup

"Remember when Bush promised everyone 300 $"

That was the great media "look-over-there" campaign. The ads telling people all the great things they could buy with this "windfall."

Of course, the windfall was the more than $100,000 for the rich.

[newspeak]

20. okay then

we got people that have lost their homes, lost their decent, good paying jobs, places like hull house closing while more and more people need assistance, and he's not going to bribe the american people. Got ya mittens. No help for the majority of the american people. So, who are ya going to bribe? your friends, those who are funding your campaign with mega moolah, the church? Not bribes, but if you win, favors in return, right mittens?