New video shows Romney saying Palestinians don't want peace
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney's reeling campaign hit more trouble on Tuesday after new video surfaced showing him saying that Palestinians do not want peace and a resolution of their conflict with Israel was not possible.
"I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say there's just no way," Romney said in the secretly recorded video of a closed-door May fundraiser in Florida.
The images are the second from a video of the event that was published by liberal magazine Mother Jones. Romney was already in damage control from the first, which showed him describing President Barack Obama's supporters as victims who are too dependent on government and unwilling to take responsibility for their own lives.
Romney held a Monday night news conference in California to try to contain the damage from the video but did not back away from the remarks about Obama supporters, which raised fresh questions about the competence and direction of his campaign to boot Obama from the White House.
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VWolf
(3,944 posts)mucifer
(23,631 posts)jpbollma
(552 posts)Even though it is awful.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)after this?
This won't hurt him with some percentage of voters, but it will kill him with people who consider the ME an important region in the overall scheme of things.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)John Kerry was right. Romney would be a disaster for international relations.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Can we keep him?
d_b
(7,463 posts)this poor asshole
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)DallasNE
(7,404 posts)Do something, anything, to change the subject. Or are you too dumb to think of something so obvious.
Uninformed talk about dirty suitcase bombs being used for blackmail and tacitly green lighting Israel's expansion of settlements provides a ripe opportunity to blast some truly weird views of people. That makes this tax return time -- get it released today.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)as in...verbal diarrhea
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)They will not be happy until all of Palestine is "ethically cleansed" to give themselves more Lebensraum.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)splat.
What an idiot!
Wake up lemmings of America...this guy is bad, Bad, BAD news.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)Romney is screwed. He'll be lucky if he doesn't wind up living in exile after November.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)I wouldn't be shocked if a video surfaces of RMoney torturing dogs and kittens with Michael Vick.
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)nolabear
(42,006 posts)The viewpoint itself is incindiary and foolish, but his lack of restraint in saying things like thisshows a lack of intelligence that just boggles the mind.
GreenTea
(5,154 posts)Corporate imperialism.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)....he sure has blown the lid off of a lot of stuff that's been denied before.
4_TN_TITANS
(2,977 posts)... I'm not concerned about them."