{"id":16897,"date":"2012-09-20T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16897"},"modified":"2012-09-20T14:45:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T18:45:16","slug":"mitt-romney-my-job-is-not-to-worry-about-those-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16897","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney: My Job Is Not To \u2018Worry About Those People\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After officially accepting his party\u2019s presidential nomination, GOP presidential candidate <strong>Mitt Romney<\/strong> was secretly recorded in a video secured by news magazine <em>Mother Jones<\/em> at a fund-raising event.<\/p>\n<p>While there, <strong>Romney<\/strong> talked with well-heeled campaign donors about voters who support <strong>President Barack Obama:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere 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\u2019s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what\u2026These are people who pay no income tax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Romney<\/strong> then added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[M]y job is not to worry about those people. I\u2019ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.\u201dWe really shouldn\u2019t be surprised by the new video showing the GOP candidate disparage \u201cthose people\u201d and suggesting that, if his father was Mexican, he\u2019d be ahead in the polls. But, in this new age of technology and high-tech snooping devices, one would think <strong>Romney<\/strong> would exercise more caution. But, as we all know, it is often too difficult to suppress one\u2019s true feelings, especially among friends.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, his deep pocket campaign donors. In the video,<strong> Romney<\/strong> reveals what he truly feels about \u201cthose people\u201d he \u201ctried\u201d to woo at a recent NAACP convention and millions of other Americans with whom he struggles to strike a chord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After officially accepting his party\u2019s presidential nomination, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was secretly recorded in a video secured by news magazine Mother Jones at a fund-raising event. While there, Romney talked with well-heeled campaign donors about voters who support President Barack Obama: \u201cThere are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}