Mitt Romney made an appearance last week on Fox, where else, and when asked about his 47% statement responded “I didn’t express myself as I wished I would have. You know, when you speak in private, you don’t spend as much time thinking about how something could be twisted and distorted and—and it could come out wrong and be used.” [against you]
I‘ll buy that except for the twisting and distorting part. Simply quoting him was sufficient. We can even hear his voice. But then he went on to say “What I said is not what I believe.” No Mitt no! You have that part in reverse. What one says to fellow travelers in presumed privacy is much closer to what one believes than the contents of a prepared speech.
This man perfectly fits the stereotype of today’s establishment Republicans. They talk differently to the public than they do to each other. I’ve heard stories from musicians who have worked Bohemian Grove, a Northern California retreat for upscale men, about what is said in unrecorded privacy. One quote, which I mentioned previously, is “you don’t (delete) your friends, you (delete) John Q. Public.” However misguided we lefties may be, we do talk to each other almost entirely in terms of what we feel is right or wrong, fair or unfair.
Americans are not quick studies. Look how long it took us to learn about smoking. Seeing friends we’ve known for years with cigarettes in their hands slowly dying did the trick. We’ve been much slower with guns. That may be because most of us don’t react as strongly to the deaths of people we’ve never known.
Will we ever learn what Romney has spelled out so for us so specifically? He was speaking unabashedly to people who paid fifty grand a head, within earshot of others whose presence he ignored and about whom he was bragging of not being “concerned.” Ah how fate plays tricks. Wouldn’t you know that there was at least one of those forty seven percenters on the premises about whom Mitt should have been concerned, very concerned!
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