The saddest aspect to this story, IMO, is that it won't actually be as damaging as it should be for reasons already mentioned. Fox has spent the entire day in overdrive furiously downplaying it, and American voters have already demonstrated a million times over they have no problem voting against themselves.
A candidate that has made as many mistakes and stupid statements as Mitt Romney shouldn't be within 10% of Obama.
Oh Marokai. A story like this is as irrelevant as Obama's "guns and religion" leak in 2008. We know Mittens is an asshole who thinks like my grandfather, that being poor is a choice, that the majority of people feel entitled, etc, etc, just like we knew Obama probably doesn't think much of god and looks down on simple country folk who spend weekends cleaning guns and shooting at tree stumps in their backyard.
This obviously was idiotic to say, but he was speaking to his target audience, probably who think like he and my grandfather, and that's what they wanted to hear. It's politics. It's life.
Oh I know, both have said stupid things, but Romney's been having a string of embarrassing stunts. The foreign trip, the lackluster convention, the Libya comments, now this leaked video. It's been a new disappointment or mistake every week. I'm just amazed it hasn't had more of an accumulated impact.
I don't think it's completely fair to compare Obama's 'guns and religion' comment to this, though. Aside from being factually accurate, the full quote of Obama's 'guns and religion' comment was about reaching out to those people and making sure we try to convince those people that Democrats could make a difference in their lives despite their cultural worries. Romney's quote straight up said that 47% of the country doesn't care about taking personal responsibility and care for their lives and he can't do anything about it and won't even try. That's a
bit worse.
