Salon.com > Jillian Rayfield and Alex Seitz-Wald http://www.salon.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:25:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Secret video: Mitt calls Obama voters “victims” http://www.salon.com/2012/09/17/romney_obama_voters_believe_that_they_are_victims/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/17/romney_obama_voters_believe_that_they_are_victims/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:29:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13014294 Mitt Romney told a roomful of wealthy donors that the people who will vote for President Obama "no matter what" are, among other things, entitled freeloaders "who believe that they are victims."

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney said at a private fundraiser earlier this year. "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."

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