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Wilkow Gives Romney Campaign Advice on Handling ’47 Percent’ Remarks: ‘Own It & Run With It Unapologetically’

Sep. 18, 2012 11:27pm Jason Howerton

During his show on TheBlazeTV on Tuesday, host Andrew Wilkow offered GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his campaign some free advice on how to deal with the controversy surrounding Romney’s recent comments about the “47 percent” of people he says will vote for Obama because they believe in government entitlements.

Wilkow called it the “best scandal ever” for Romney to get caught in.

“He was captured on tape speaking the absolute truth about the welfare state. If his campaign doesn’t own it and run with it apologetically, they should all be fired,” he said.

The host added that Romney sounded like any normal taxpayer who is frustrated with the welfare state and big government policies.

Watch the “Wilkow!” segment via TheBlazeTV here:

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PatrickW
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:19am
What would Reagan have said about this?
President Ronald Reagan called the EITC “the best antipoverty, the best pro-family, the best job creation measure to come out of Congress.”
And why do so many of these people not have to pay income tax? That’s right, because of the Earned Income Tax Credit. Makes you think doesn’t it.

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Chris
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:03am
If our current president is re-elected then this country gets what it wants, deserves.

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Verceofreason
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 8:43am
The President is supposed to represent ALL Americans.
Romney essentially said he didn’t care about THOSE people.
Like Ann’s YOU PEOPLE.
I will cut him some slack -even if he meant ‘their votes’ it was not a good
thing to say.
And I do not believe the votes thing.
He was telling the rich, I will represent YOUR INTERESTS.

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- bamanana
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:15am
  Did you listen closely to what Romney said?? No you seem to have made up your mind that he does not care about all americans. Fact: 47 percent do not pay taxes. You have payroll taxes deducted from your check but @the end of the year you either get all of it or qualify for earned income credit. (You can thank the republicans for the earned income credit passed in the 80′s.) for you to say that he does not care that is not what he said. My children are now adults & I file single & I pay through the nose in federal taxes and make under 45K a yr. So what’s your point??
  
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- Benjamin Abruzzo
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:42am
  @ Verceofreason
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 8:43am
  The President is supposed to represent ALL Americans. Romney essentially said he didn’t care about THOSE people…. He was telling the rich, I will represent YOUR INTERESTS.
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  Actually, after listening to the full quoteation, it sounds like omney said that his message of cutting taxes (which benefits everybody) falls of deaf ears, so to enact the policies which benefit all people, he has to focus on those voters he can convince so that he can win.
  
  Sounds like he is for all people.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:17pm
  Hi, yeah, what percentage of us were the enemies Obama said needed punished? What percentage of us were the people who were supposed to sit down and be quiet while he cleans things with a broom? Just curious.
  
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- Mrsnary
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:22am
  You are one of the people HE was talking. Your mind is made up, piss off. No one should waste their time to teach you reason. You either have it or you don’t. You don’t
  
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cuencaecuador
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 8:02am
And you must be the typical liberal with their mouth sewed to the government teet.

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DennisNJ
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 7:08am
Correct, Run with it let the world know that half the people are getting Obama Bucks.

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- loriann12
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 7:23am
  My liberal aunt was really happy to post that on her face book page….being outraged by it. My uncle is a doctor, to they’re not part of that 47%. You can’t have it both ways….she was also outraged that Romney paid no less than 15% taxes his whole life, stating (incorrectly I might add) that she never paid less than 35%. She never did comment on my post that Biden thinks people who make $200,000 a year are rich and therefor by extending that logic shoul be taxed more. 47% DO get all of their taxes back, never pay taxes or get back even more than they put in.
  
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MachIV
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 7:02am
Romney did in fact tell the truth and it was the truth no matter how much milktoast limpwristed RINOs like Bill Bennett, who trashed Romney this morning on his radio show, says it is not true. People like
Bennett is what’s wrong with the GOP.

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- encinom
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:38am
  He did tell the truth, he does not care about those that are not in the Country Club Class. Romney has no care for the poor, the dirty masses that he hires to act as servants.
  
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kindsoul
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 6:39am
Troll alert

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irkulyen
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 4:37am
Mitt Romney is a sad little pissant who will never be president.
Andrew Wilkow is human garbage.

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- kindsoul
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 6:47am
  Did the occupoo wall street fire you due to lack of interest?
  
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- cuencaecuador
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 8:48am
  Coming from you they probably feel like that is a compliment. I get a thrill up my leg everytime Obama in effect states that he hates everything I stand for.
  
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- rig_jumpr
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:37am
  troll !
  
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justangry
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 1:09am
I don’t even listen to these guys anymore. I mean most of them sound good. Typically their actions don’t match their rhetoric. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a media outlet that focused more on politicians actions rather than the BS that comes out of their mouths?

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KyleD
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 1:00am
I could not agree more. This is the perfect excuse for the Romney campaign to finally speak his mind.

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- Xyskalla
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 1:58am
  I’m actually impressed.
  
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capitalismrocks
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:49am
This is Romney’s “Reagan Moment” — Reagan ignored his handlers and the GOP and said the truth and wasn’t afraid or apologetic about it. Romney’s statements were strong, bold and great and I hope to hear more in your face out in the open truth from him. His comments on the 47% – how is that much more different than Obama’s latino speech where he called republicans, conservatives and the tea-party “OUR ENEMIES” What US President calls US Citizens “enemies ?!?!?!” That is a true showing of devisiveness, Romney spoke the truth, it was great !!!

Same with Palestine, just like Reagan who called the Soviet Empire Evil…. Romney should directly call out the Palestinians not wanting piece, they want to slice and dice up Israel and eventually eliminate it, that is NOT peace.

So I want to hear more boldness from Romney !!!

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- irkulyen
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 4:49am
  CAPITALISMSUCKS – Where do creatures like you come from?
  
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- Brettfan
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 6:59am
  America rocks
  
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- PatrickW
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:22am
  You do know that it is largely because of Reagan that a lot of these 47 percenters don’t pay income tax, right?
  
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kissmygritsextremists
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:39am
Indeed. Romney running with it is key. Oh, and the Failing economy. Yeah, that’s the big sinker. Romney just needs to stick to his guns and stay strong. Let Obama’s failures loose him his re-election.

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kalli
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:36am
When bho can only comeback with “My expectation is that if you want to be president, you have to work for everyone, not just for some,” anyone with intelligence knows he has failed even that since he only helps the muslims who hate us, or the permanent gov’t leeches who want obumbler to keep providing for them from “his” stash!

His agenda is to break the back of America and put us all on the gov’t dole, living in small confinements, and confiscating all property throughout the nation. The wealthy will leave the country as they are doing in France, while this thug will have to keep printing phoney money for him and his elite thiefs to live high on the hog since there will be fewer taxes paid to the gov’t coffers.

Evenutally, all he has wrought will come crashing down…may the Lord open up the earth and swallow the evil doers directly into the pit alive as done to Korah’s people (NUM 16).

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FloridaFarmGirl
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:36am
Spot on!! Romney/Ryan 2012, do like the libs and vote early and vote often!!

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bornagaincowgirl
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:18am
Exactly! Thats what I say, why doesn’t Romney just run with it?

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Git-R-Done
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:12am
I’d run with that statement as well.

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blackyb
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:05am
What Obama said is true. That is why the Democrats wll cheat this election if there is any way they can. The leftist media has convinced most of the public who are not reached by the truth. The thing is that most of them may not vote. We have hope, but The Obamaites will vote for them. They will cheat this elections and Obama is not eligible to even be on the ballot. Eleven states are trying to get Obama off the ballot because of this. That governor in Arizona is not one of them. You would think she would be, but she is siding with her buddy Napolitano.

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SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:04am
The ironic thing is,I dont think Romney even beieves what he said…He just said it because he thought thats what the doners present wanted to hear…..Out of the 47% paying no taxes,only about 25% want a free ride,the others are trapped in Obama’s economy….the other 25% not supporting Romney actually pay taxes but they include people who suffer from either white guilt or believe a declining America leads to a more just world…Romney needs to clarify that alot of people paying no taxes do actually want to pay taxes……They want a job…..Romney must acknowledge that and promise to get them working after he’s elected President.

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- kalli
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:29am
  Check out today’s interview with Romney on Cavuto…FoxNews.com. I agree with Wilkow…even Rush agreed this would be a golden opportunity for Romney. Let’s hope he hits it hard.
  
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- Sosorryforyou
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:21am
  @SPOT
  
  It’s actually only about 6% that want a free ride. The rest of the 41% are either seniors, the disabled, students, long-term unemployed still looking for work, the working poor, etc. The majority aren’t in it for the free ride, and the majority still pay lots of federal, state and local taxes, just not income tax. Romney lumped all of the 47% into the lazy, not-taking-responsibility-for-their-lives category. He owns his words now.
  
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Rayblue
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:00am
It’s a little thing but they add up in the final count.

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bukowski72
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 11:57pm
“According to the Tax Policy Center, nearly two-thirds of households that paid no income tax did pay payroll taxes. Which means they are working and are not, in fact, “dependent on government”. And of the small number of households that didn’t pay either, more than half were elderly.

It’s also worth mentioning another group of people who don’t pay federal income tax and who Romney thinks are “dependent upon government” for their health care, food and housing: members of the military currently deployed in a combat zone like Afghanistan.”

http://www.plunderbund.com/2012/09/17/does-mitt-romney-thinks-u-s-troops-are-mooching-off-the-government/

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/federal-taxes-households.cfm

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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:41am
  And don’t forget the elderly. They make up ten percent of the total voters and at least twenty percent of the people who don’t pay taxes, and they tend to vote red. The idea that the 47% that don’t pay federal income taxes are identical with the 47% who wouldn’t be caught dead voting Republican is just so insultingly stupid that a child could figure out that it can’t be true. And of course, we still don’t know whether Mitt Romney was paying any income taxes before he decided to run for President again.
  
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- PatrickW
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:33am
  Sensible and reasonable. Ronald Reagan even helped significantly increase the number of people who don’t pay income tax.
  
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HJS
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 11:57pm
He absolutely has to take it to them now. If if backs away like he did on attacking the Egyptian embassy apology, they will use it to bury him and the game is over. This gives him the platform he needs to force the issue that we are at the cross roads. So far he seems to see the light. Just keep him away from McCain and Graham at all costs.

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- blackyb
  Posted on September 19, 2012 at 12:07am
  Most of those will not vote, but the Democrats and ACORN like organizations will make sure their names are voted on. They are desperate to win this election and they WILL cheat any and every way they can.
  
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UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 11:55pm
I’m liking the way Wilkow thinks. Can’t think of a single thing he said I disagree with.

Come to think of it, I can’t find a single thing Romney said about the 47% I disagree with.

Run with it Romney.

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Stoic one
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 11:42pm
Polls all over the web (according to wifey) are saying 75% APPROVE of the Romney comments.
HE!! YES run with it!.

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RossPoldark
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 11:40pm
I totally agree, Romney needs to continue taking a stand on difficult issues. He needs to be more like Chris Christy. You cant have everyone love you, but you can have people respect you.

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gbfreak
Posted on September 18, 2012 at 11:35pm
Excellent advice! With over 65% of Americans agreeing with his true statement, this just boosted the Romney campaign.

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- RossPoldark
  Posted on September 18, 2012 at 11:42pm
  This just makes me donate to his campaign even more. The more Obama and the mainstream media attack Romney the more his donations go up.
  
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- Mrsnary
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:30am
  I’m about to donate twice as much as the first time to Romney Camp.
  
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