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Title: Matt Taibbi: Mitt Romney Would Have Won If Republicans 'Were Self-Aware At All'
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URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/ ... bbi-mitt-romney_n_2099894.html
Published: Nov 9, 2012
Author: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09
Post Date: 2012-11-09 11:21:00 by tom007
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Matt Taibbi: Mitt Romney Would Have Won If Republicans 'Were Self-Aware At All' The Huffington Post | By Bonnie Kavoussi Posted: 11/09/2012 10:52 am EST Updated: 11/09/2012 10:52 am EST Share on Google+ Matt Taibbi Obama 6 2 0 5 39 Get Business Alerts: Sign Up Follow: Mitt Romney, Video, Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi, Matt Taibbi GOP, Matt Taibbi Mitt Romney, Matt Taibbi Mitt Romney GOP, Matt Taibbi Republican Party, Matt Taibbi Republicans, Matt Taibbi Romney, Mitt Romney 2012, Business News Mitt Romney could have easily won the presidential election if he and his party had realized that they were turning people off, according to Matt Taibbi. "If they were self-aware at all, Mitt Romney would probably be president right now," Taibbi wrote in a blog post for Rolling Stone late Thursday. He argued that Republicans' message about financial responsibility could resonate with a lot of people, but unfortunately it is a cover for their belief that women and minorities are "parasites." Modern Republicans "have so much of their own collective identity wrapped up in the belief that they're surrounded by free-loading, job-averse parasites who not only want to smoke weed and have recreational abortions all day long, but want hardworking white Christians like them to pay the tab," Taibbi wrote. "Their whole belief system...is inherently insulting to everyone outside the tent – and you can't win votes when you're calling people lazy, stoned moochers." Minorities and women voted overwhelmingly for Obama in the presidential election. Fifty-five percent of women voted for Obama, according to CNN's exit polls. Obama also won nearly three-quarters of the Latino vote, more than 90 percent of the black vote, and 73 percent of the Asian-American vote, according to exit polls. Some comments by Romney may have played a role. Romney told donors in a video leaked before the election that 47 percent of Americans "are dependent upon government," "believe that they are victims," and "believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it." President Barack Obama trounced Romney in the electoral college, winning 332 electoral votes compared to Romney's 206. But the election was not a total victory for Democrats. Obama won the popular vote by a closer margin: 50.5 percent compared to Romney's 48.0 percent. Republicans also kept the House of Representatives, and Democrats did not gain enough seats in the Senate to prevent future filibusters by Republicans. Earlier on HuffPost:
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
What a load of bullshit. Just look at the numbers of stay-at-home Republicans: Mitt Romney fucked himself all year long with every step he took on his path to oblivion. "If they were self-aware at all, Mitt Romney would probably be president right now," Taibbi wrote
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: tom007 (#0)
If Republicans were REALLY self-aware they wouldn't have nominated Romney in the first place.
John Howard says: There are 4 schools of economics:
Marxism: steal everything
Keynesianism: steal by counterfeiting whenever needed
Chicago school (Milton Friedman): steal by counterfeiting at a steady, predictable rate
Austrians: don't steal
Democrats don't mind war as long as they can have big government. Republicans don't mind big government as long as they can have war.
'Wiped off the Map' – The Rumor of the Century
#3. To: tom007 (#0)
Romney looked like the guy who fired Americans and outsourced their jobs to some Third World hellhole.
There are actually govt agents who spread conspiracy theories among the gullible to help promote the illusion that the govt is all powerful.
#4. To: X-15 (#1)
What? Don't you know Tabubu really, really, just wants the best for white people? Mitt Romney fucked himself all year long with every step he took on his path to oblivion.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#5. To: tom007 (#0)
Actually, if the Republicans had really been "self-aware" they wouldn't have nominated Romney at all.
#6. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#4)
Matt Taibbi is smoking some powerful shit. Hey, his Rolling Stone(d) gig pays off every day, right??
-Alex Kurtagic
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