Just hours after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign attempted an image reboot on Monday, it found itself under attack over a clandestinely recorded video of the candidate describing nearly half the electorate as “dependent on government” because they don’t pay federal income taxes, remarks first reported by The Huffington Post and Mother Jones.
President Barack Obama’s campaign immediately pounced on Romney’s claim about “the 47 percent,” with campaign manager Jim Messina saying the former Massachusetts governor had “disdainfully written off half the nation.”
(Huffington Post)
