pokoko said:
badgenome said:
pokoko said:
Oh, um, I mean .. Liberal Media! Liberal Media! He didn't actually say that! It was photo-shopped! This shouldn't be covered by any writers because it's not fair! |
Cover it, by all means. But some sense of proportion would be nice. The country is on an unsustainable fiscal path, the world is burning down around our ears, and all the media ever fixates on is Romney's latest real or imagined gaffe. Vetting a would be president is important and all, but there is a guy who has that job right now and he's never held to account for anything.
As for what Romney said, it's hard to imagine why it's even controversial in light of things like Julia. The whole DNC was one big ode to free abortions, for crying out loud. The Democrats seem pretty comfortable with their strategy of encouraging dependency, so why get bent out of shape if someone points it out?
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Then make a thread about those things.
This is why any discussion about politics always gives me a headache. The focus can never be about something a politician has done wrong. It always turns into "uh, well, that thing the other guy did was worse!" It's just pointless.
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Except that's exactly what he's saying.
He put it stuipidly, and overexagerrated with the 47% number not voting for him... a lot will... but he's not wrong.
You don't think entitlements distort voting patterns?
If that wasn't A case there wouldn't be a huge arguement about "who is going to kill medicare!"
The 47% number was stupid, but he's right in that fixing the economy by cutting taxes to the poor doesn't mean shit to people who get government assitance, and probably have gotten it for quite a while.
