Romney: Limbaugh remarks "not language I would have used"
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Bellevue, Wash., Friday, March 2, 2012. / AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Bellevue, Wash., March 2, 2012.
/ AP Photo/Gerald Herbert(CBS News) CLEVELAND - Mitt Romney on Friday lamented conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh's controversial labeling of birth control activist Sandra Fluke as a "slut" and a "prostitute," but not in strong enough terms for President Obama's chief re-election strategist.
Limbaugh made his now-infamous comments after Fluke, a Georgetown University law student, testified during an unofficial Democratic committee hearing about how a friend had been unable to pay for the birth control needed to shrink ovarian cysts and help preserve her fertility. Several leading conservatives, including House Speaker John Boehner, have rebuked Limbaugh.
"I'll just say this, which is, it's not the language I would have used," Romney told reporters after an event in Cleveland. Instead, he said, "I'm focusing on the issues that I think are significant in the country today, and that's why I'm here talking about jobs and Ohio."
Obama calls Sandra Fluke to offer support over Limbaugh comments
Upon seeing the quote, David Axelrod, senior advisor to the Obama campaign, issued a sarcastic tweet: "Wow. Profiles in Courage" as well as "What about the spirit of what Rush said? Was that OK?"
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Leftists get away with bashing Palin, her children, and other conservative women, but when someone bashes Fluke, the Feminists, who should be protesting Bill Clinton every where he goes, throw a fit. Go figure.
Fluke deserves being called a hoe, because she apparently needs Federal Funds to pay for a sexual appetite, that must be massive. The fact that Fluke apparently can not control her sexual urges points to a person who I would call to be tested for STDs, and make public the results.
Fluke made her comments while representing a school that condemns birth control. Fluke also seems to have committed research fraud for making public survey results of a personal nature that were not peer reviewed.
Rush Limbaugh Apologizes to Sandra Fluke
In a written statement on his website, Limbaugh said he did not mean a personal attack on the student, Sandra Fluke.
"My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir," Limbaugh said in the statement. "I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices."
These idiots are all afraid of Limbaugh and the irony is, it is guys like Limbaugh that have painted them into this pandering corner they are in. Driving each other so far to the right that they will not have a chance in the general election... Oh well. It is for the best really. Probably should send Limbaugh a thank you card when the election is over. Because right or left, Republican policies are half baked bumper stickers that are proven to not work by their own boy W who was in the white house for 8 years and drove us into the ditch.
I pay an annual premuim. It is for health care, not casual sex.
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WHO CARES.
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
I am retired Army and pay for TRICARE PRIME. Why.
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What a waste of my tax money.
I dont know why you expect us to pay for your retirement and healthcare.
Mitt Romney's new tax plan strongly favors the wealthiest Americans, offering earners in the top 20 percent an average tax cut of more than $16,000 while raising taxes on the bottom 20 percent of earners, according to an analysis from a non-partisan Washington think tank.
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First off, that is not a non-partisan think tank - it is definitely partisan. Second, you apparently do not know how to analyze the facts to get the whole story. So I've reposted some information I provided on another thread here for you.
What I can tell you is that there is simply no valid argument that the rich are not paying their fair share.
Top 1% (the selfish rich people)
Income: $380,000+
Effective Tax Rate (2010): 24%
Federal Income tax paid in 2010: $91,200
Bracket's total share of Federal Tax Revenue: 38%
Total returns filed by this bracket in 2010: 1.4 million
Bottom 50% (the poor downtrodden)
Income < $33,000
Effective tax rate: 2.59%
Federal Income tax paid in 2010 (at $33K): $854.70
Bracket's total share of Federal Income tax revenue: 2.7%
Total returns filed in this bracket in 2010: 69.9 million returns
If you will notice, the top 1%'er paid more in one year than the poor guy would pay in 106 years. None of this is explained in the article dizzy posted. Libs and Socialists depend on the fact that most people actually do not know how to calculate the Effective Tax rate someone pays. This has allowed their false argument about the rich to take root amongst the lesser educated people who make up the working class.
Here's the deal folks: Obama depends upon the fact that you don't know math to get re-elected. Hopefully, this won't happen. There is no valid argument that the rich don't pay their fair share.
By the way, my figures do not come from Rush, Fox or the GOP. I am not a republican but I am a fiscal conservative. These figures are all available at the IRS for anyone to look up.