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Romney: Obama trying to ‘bribe the voters’ with benefits

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By David Edwards
Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:31 EST

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Saturday accused President Barack Obama of trying to “bribe the voters” with benefits and “checks from government.”

During his victory speech following the Nevada caucuses, the candidate told a crowd of supporters that voters shouldn’t expect a “free ticket” when he is president.

“I will not attempt to bribe the voters with promises of new programs and new subsidies and ever-increasing checks from government,” Romney declared. “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.”

“I’m asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an American. I want you to remember why it was that you or your ancestors, who sacrificed to come to America and to overcome the challenges of life in a new country, why they came here. It was not for a free ticket; it was for freedom.”

Last week, the former Massachusetts governor claimed he had misspoken when he said that he was “not concerned about the very poor.”

“We have a safety net there,” he had told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.”

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'Sheeesh, all his talk about America and being an American, and he ends with 'God Bless this Great Land????'
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45 comments // Romney: Obama trying to ‘bribe the voters’ with benefits

  • faye59
    • +1
      faye59  
    • Mitt has no credibility at all. He let a bozo with dog-on-man obsessions beat him in three primary states. NUff said?

    • 4 months ago
  • bike10
  • sgwhites
  • Arizona_Huey
    • +1
      Arizona_Huey  
    • Man I can't wait to watch Obama thoroughly destroy whatever imbecile they manage to pick as their candidate. It is going to be comical - especially now that the economy is starting to pick up a bit, despite the teapublican's best efforts to sabotage it.

    • 4 months ago
  • budsnews
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      budsnews  
    • Arizona_Huey:

      agreed,...thats probably why o.b. stayed in the center...waiting to see his second term agenda.Not his campaign,but his decisions during his second term...that will be his real chance to make history..especially if dems can win back the house..

    • 4 months ago
  • ithink
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      ithink  
    • I had an idea after reading this,when the debates start between President Obama and Romney or who ever they put up before they sit down tell them their chairs have been wired to a truth machine and if either one makes a false statement about the other or known facts of what has taken place over the last 10 years it will automaticly produce a shock to the respondents chair, and you will answer the question given you and not what your version of the question should have been,now please be seated and lets begin.Then the audience and the millions of other veiwers might for once get a debate that is worth while and mr moderator your chair is wired too so make your questions about the issues and not personal.

    • 4 months ago
  • RMattnerTours
  • Frosty46
    • +1
      Frosty46  
    • I remember alright, I remember who has screwed me over since birth and who has tried to help me. I remember what laws and regulations have been altered as a result of Republican efforts to steal from the system repeatedly! I remember The Savings & Loan financial scam of the Ronnie Raygun era. I remember the deregulation era's of Raygun, Bush I and Bush II that lead to the Housing Bubble. I remember the Credit Swap Trading that came from Republican Phil Gramm's dirty tricks with legislation.

      I remember who the thugs are-----------------and will fight them to the death!

    • 4 months ago
  • nardo1224
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      nardo1224  
    • Everybody knows the "Southern Strategy". Blame all your problems and issues on "THOSE PEOPLE".
      It's an old, worn out ,tired strategy and only a handful of people believe it. Mr. Romney, it's ok to pander to a few hundred people but when election time comes and this is played back for millions of people, you will be shown as the asshole that you really are.

    • 4 months ago
  • Jpwhoregan
  • KB723
  • Plue
    • +4
      Plue  
    • I know this is not a deep and profound thought but I am so sick of Mitt and his lies that I would just like to tell him to "Shut the F*&k Up." His voice is beginning to make my ears bleed.

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • Plue
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  • LivingPong
    • +2
      LivingPong  
    • These candidates are really 'clutching at straws'. With all the millions of dollars they have, can't they even hire a decent speech writer who can scratch out a compelling argument? It's obvious they can't write a speech themselves, but surely somewhere amongst the many people working for them, someone at least has a clue?

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • GRC54
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      GRC54  
    • BS BS and more BS. This dope never gives up. He'll say and do anything to get elected. He would make a great president in Mexico.

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • ThirdSection
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  • jimstoner
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      jimstoner  
    • The Republicans are continually talking about the great American ancestors who built the country while doing everything in their power to dismantle the very system of government and social safety nets that those same ancestors put in place. Who's disrespecting their ancestry? If privatization is a good thing for America, why didn't your ancestors do that in the first place? American ancestors came here "not for a free ticket, but for freedom". Mitt and his ilk would create a system of user pay in which the 99% pay the 1% for everything. I am quite sure this is not what American ancestors had in mind when they created these services. Why were all these services not privatized from their inception? Public schools, publicly funded social security, medicare and medicaid. Even health care was not privatized until a Conservative, Richard Nixon, privatized it in 1972. And if you would like a little insight into the Conservative way of thinking about privatization, here are some quotes from the conversation between Ehrlichman and Nixon concerning the privatization of health care.
      Nixon: "You know I'm not keen on any of these medical programs".
      Ehrlichman: "This is a private enterprise one".
      Nixon: "Well that appeals to me".
      Ehrlichman: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason he can, the reason he can do it, I had Edgar Kaiser come in, talk to me about this and I went into it in some depth. All the incentives are toward less medical care, because the less medical care they give them, the more money they make".
      Nixon: "Fine"
      Ehrlichman: "And the incentives run the right way".
      Nixon: "Good".
      This is why conservatives want privatization of everything. Less service for the 99%, more profits for the 1%.
      And Mitt did not misspeak when he said he was "not concerned about the poor". He could not care less about the poor, or the middle class for that matter. There is no chance that he would say that unless he meant it. He just forgot that more than Conservatives were listening. You don't say you are concerned about the poor with one statement, and accuse the President of bribery for taking care of the poor with the next. And I can not fathom the audacity of a Washington politician accusing the public of accepting bribes. Bribery is the modus operandi of the organized crime family known as Washington politics. It's their thing. Or translated to the personal point of veiw, "la cosa nostra".

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • jimstoner
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  • budsnews
  • Leen61
    • +2
      Leen61  
    • STFU Romney! SSDD! He's a ultra rich 1%er who doesn't give a rat's ass about the people of this country......except for how much he can make off of them.

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • The Republicans are 'hurting' the people by denying benefits. Romney has no idea what people need. I doubt he's ever had a 'real' need. He may have experience a want he had to wait for, but not need of a roof over his head, or a meal on his table.

      Facts are, he has lived a life of wealth and opportunity. He can say anything, but he can't change the facts. I don't think 'help', should be labeled a bribe. What would he do for ordinary people who are struggling? Nothing?

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • Ambill94
    • +1
      Ambill94  
    • Well, the idiot got this part right: "...I’m not your president." And of course you can believe this:"“We have a safety net there."... “If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.” The key word is if...if it needs repair...sorry folks, but Mr Romeny has been out of the country for several years and really doesn't have a freakin' clue what he is saying or what is going on in this Great Land...Damn and people actually vote for this fool???????

    • 4 months ago
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  • Ambill94
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  • budsnews
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  • KB723
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      KB723  
    • Romney: Obama trying to ‘bribe the voters’ with benefits

      'Sheeesh, all his talk about America and being an American, and he ends with 'God Bless this Great Land????'

    • 4 months ago
  • cmc101
  • KB723
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      KB723  
    • cmc101:

      They want to privatize everything so their friends the 1% can get even wealthier, I don't see Mitt as becoming POTUS in 2012, lets be Happy about that... =)

    • 4 months ago
  • cmc101
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      cmc101  
    • KB723:

      I hope the snow didn't block you in ,and you are fairen well
      I liked your comment but don't take your eyes off the other side for a minute
      stay warm

    • 4 months ago
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