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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Outrageous!!! His words need to be on the front
page of every newspaper in the US. Rich, arrogant, out-of-touch, callous, and
stupid----is this a GW Bush re-do? Why not, when the same neo-cons who ran
George have their hands up Mitt's neck and are moving his mouth
(obviously he hasn't the sense to speak on his own). This fool is not the
"Romney" his father was (or even the one <U>he </U>used to be)....despicable
man, despicable message, despicable sensabilities. Proof positive that when you
lie down with the Neocons (Karl Rove is his hero), the Delusional Religious
Right (Rick Perry), and the Tea Party Hounds ("VP Hound" to you, Homeless
Person!), you get up with fleas the size of Shetland ponies. Makes me itch on
behalf of those who buy into this crap---and most of them are likely those most
ill-affected by his heartless and nasty assessment of the American
people.....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He might be as brainless as GW Bush, but his
"handlers" are rattlesnakes. Fortunately for the truth, he can't keep his mouth
shut, or recognize that anything he says will become public given our techno
culture...he's turning over his own rocks to let the bugs crawl out!!
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 17, 2012 7:25
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] [corrected - added
link] Secret Video of RomneyReleased</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV>Courtesy of Mother Jones at:</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><A
href="http://www.motherjones.com/print/195471">http://www.motherjones.com/print/195471</A>
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">SECRET VIDEO:
Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama
Voters</SPAN><BR></DIV>
<P></P>
<H1 class=print-title style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2em"><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 17px; FONT-STYLE: italic">When he
doesn't know a camera's rolling, the GOP candidate shows his disdain for half
of America.</SPAN></H1>
<P></P>
<P>During a private fundraiser earlier this year, Republican presidential
candidate Mitt Romney told a small group of wealthy contributors what he truly
thinks of all the voters who support President Barack Obama. He dismissed
these Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, who don't assume
responsibility for their lives, and who think government should take care of
them. Fielding a question from a donor about how he could triumph in November,
Romney replied:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#000000>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 they are victims, who believe the government has a
responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to
health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an
entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote
for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income
tax.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Romney went on: "[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never
convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their
lives."</P>
<P><EM>Mother Jones</EM> has obtained video of Romney at this intimate
fundraiser—where he candidly discussed his campaign strategy and foreign
policy ideas in stark terms he does not use in public—and has confirmed its
authenticity. To protect the confidential source who provided the video, we
have blurred some of the image, and we will not identify the date or location
of the event, which occurred after Romney had clinched the Republican
presidential nomination. Here is Romney expressing his disdain for Americans
who back the president:</P>
<P>At the dinner, Romney often stuck to familiar talking points. But there
were moments when he went beyond the familiar campaign lines. Describing his
family background, he quipped about his father, "Had he been born of Mexican
parents, I'd have a better shot of winning this." Contending that he is a
self-made millionaire who earned his own fortune, Romney insisted, "I have
inherited nothing." He remarked, "There is a perception, 'Oh, we were born
with a silver spoon, he never had to earn anything and so forth.' Frankly, I
was born with a silver spoon, which is the greatest gift you can have: which
is to get born in America."</P>
<P>Romney told the contributors that "women are open to supporting me," but
that "we are having a much harder time with Hispanic voters, and if the
Hispanic voting bloc becomes as committed to the Democrats as the African
American voting block has in the past, why, we're in trouble as a party and, I
think, as a nation." When one attendee asked how this group could help Romney
sell himself to others, he answered, "Frankly, what I need you to do is to
raise millions of dollars." He added, "The fact that I'm either tied or close
to the president…that's very interesting."</P>
<P>Asked why he wouldn't go full-throttle and assail Obama as corrupt, Romney
explained the internal thinking of his campaign and revealed that he and his
aides, in response to focus-group studies conducted by his consultants, were
hesitant to hammer the president too hard out of fear of alienating
independents who voted for Obama in 2008:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=rteleft><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#000000>We speak with
voters across the country about their perceptions. Those people I told
you—the 5 to 6 or 7 percent that we have to bring onto our side—they all
voted for Barack Obama four years ago. So, and by the way, when you say to
them, "Do you think Barack Obama is a failure?" they overwhelmingly say no.
They like him. But when you say, "Are you disappointed that his policies
haven't worked?" they say yes. And because they voted for him, they don't
want to be told that they were wrong, that he's a bad guy, that he did bad
things, that he's corrupt. Those people that we have to get, they want to
believe they did the right thing, but he just wasn't up to the task. They
love the phrase that he's "over his head." But if we're—but we, but you see,
you and I, we spend our day with Republicans. We spend our days with people
who agree with us. And these people are people who voted for him and don't
agree with us. And so the things that animate us are not the things that
animate them. And the best success I have at speaking with those people is
saying, you know, the president has been a disappointment. He told you he'd
keep unemployment below 8 percent. Hasn't been below eight percent since.
Fifty percent of kids coming out of school can't get a job. Fifty percent.
Fifty percent of the kids in high school in our 50 largest cities won't
graduate from high school. What're they gonna do? These are the kinds of
things that I can say to that audience that they nod their head and say,
"Yeah, I think you're right." What he's going to do, by the way, is try and
vilify me as someone who's been successful, or who's, you know, closed
businesses or laid people off, and is an evil bad guy. And that may
work.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=rteleft>(Note: Obama <A
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important"
href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/feb/08/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-president-promised-peak-8-percent/"
target=_blank>did not promise</A> <SPAN
class=print-footnote>[7]</SPAN> his policies would keep unemployment
under 8 percent, and 50 percent of college graduates <A
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/fact-checking-mitt-romneys-acceptance-speech-at-the-gop-convention/2012/08/31/70c3d8de-f31f-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_blog.html"
target=_blank>are not unemployed</A><SPAN
class=print-footnote>[8]</SPAN>.)</P>
<P>To assure the donors that he and his campaign knew what they were doing,
Romney boasted about the consultants he had retained, emphasizing that several
had worked for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#000000>I have a very good team of
extraordinarily experienced, highly successful consultants, a couple of
people in particular who have done races around the world. I didn't realize
it. These guys in the US—the Karl Rove equivalents—they do races all over
the world: in Armenia, in Africa, in Israel. I mean, they work for Bibi
Netanyahu in his race. So they do these races and they see which ads work,
and which processes work best, and we have ideas about what we do over the
course of the campaign. I'd tell them to you, but I'd have to shoot
you.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>When one donor said he was disappointed that Romney wasn't attacking Obama
with sufficient intellectual firepower, Romney groused that the campaign trail
was no place for high-minded and detail-oriented arguments:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#000000>Well, I wrote a book that lays
out my view for what has to happen in the country, and people who are
fascinated by policy will read the book. We have a website that lays out
white papers on a whole series of issues that I care about. I have to tell
you, I don't think this will have a significant impact on my electability. I
wish it did. I think our ads will have a much bigger impact. I think the
debates will have a big impact…My dad used to say, "Being right early is not
good in politics." And in a setting like this, a highly intellectual
subject—discussion on a whole series of important topics typically doesn't
win elections. And there are, there are, there are—for instance, this
president won because of "hope and change."</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Romney, who spoke confidently throughout the event and seemed quite at ease
with the well-heeled group, insisted that his election in and of itself would
lead to economic growth and that the markets would react favorably if his
chances seemed good in the fall:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#000000>They'll probably be looking at
what the polls are saying. If it looks like I'm going to win, the markets
will be happy. If it looks like the president's going to win, the markets
should not be terribly happy. It depends of course which markets you're
talking about, which types of commodities and so forth, but my own view is
that if we win <A href="x-apple-data-detectors://0"
x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on November
6th</A>, there will be a great deal of optimism about the future of this
country. We'll see capital come back and we'll see—without actually doing
anything—we'll actually get a boost in the economy. If the president gets
reelected, I don't know what will happen. I can—I can never predict what the
markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have
expected. But my own view is that if we get a "Taxageddon," as they call
it, <A href="x-apple-data-detectors://1"
x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors="true">January
1st</A>, with this president, and with a Congress that can't work together,
it's—it really is frightening.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>At the dinner, Romney also said that the campaign purposefully was using
Ann Romney "sparingly…so that people don't get tired of her." And he noted
that he had turned down an invitation from <EM><A
href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2"
x-apple-data-detectors="true">Saturday Night</A> Live</EM> because
such an appearance "has the potential of looking slapstick and not
presidential."</P>
<P>Here was Romney raw and unplugged—sort of unscripted. With this crowd of
fellow millionaires, he apparently felt free to utter what he really believes
and would never dare say out in the open. He displayed a high degree of
disgust for nearly half of his fellow citizens, lumping all Obama voters into
a mass of shiftless moochers who don't contribute much, if anything, to
society, and he indicated that he viewed the election as a battle between
strivers (such as himself and the donors before him) and parasitic free-riders
who lack character, fortitude, and initiative. Yet Romney explained to his
patrons that he could not speak such harsh words about Obama in public, lest
he insult those independent voters who sided with Obama in 2008 and whom he
desperately needs in this election. These were sentiments not to be shared
with the voters; it was inside information, available only to the select few
who had paid for the privilege of experiencing the real Romney.</P>
<P>---------------</P>
<P>Mitt Romney on Obama Voters</P>
<P><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#000000><A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnB0NZzl5HA&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnB0NZzl5HA&feature=plcp</A><BR></FONT></P>
<P>---------------</P>
<P>Mitt Romney on the economy</P>
<P><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#000000><A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHKVsEknCrI&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHKVsEknCrI&feature=plcp</A><BR></FONT></P>
<P>---------------</P>
<P>Mitt Romney on what wins an election</P>
<P><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#000000><A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAIDfwrghHw&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAIDfwrghHw&feature=plcp</A><BR></FONT></P>
<P>---------------</P>
<P>Mitt Romney on his consultants</P>
<P><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#000000><A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7i7zVRFKSA&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7i7zVRFKSA&feature=plcp</A><BR></FONT></P>
<P>--------------</P>
<P>Mitt Romney on treating Obama gingerly</P>
<P><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3vwuXMw7ac&feature=plcp"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span
color=#000000>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3vwuXMw7ac&feature=plcp</FONT></A></P>
<DIV>-------------------------------------<BR><BR>Seeya round town, Moscow,
because . . .
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>"Moscow Cares"</DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>Tom Hansen</DIV>
<DIV>Moscow, Idaho</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The
college students are not very active in local elections (thank
goodness!)."</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</DIV>
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