{"id":12881,"date":"2012-02-01T19:14:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T00:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12881"},"modified":"2012-02-01T19:14:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T00:14:33","slug":"list-of-mitt%e2%80%99s-verbal-gaffes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12881\/list-of-mitt%e2%80%99s-verbal-gaffes\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Mitt\u2019s Verbal Gaffes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of telling CNN this morning that he\u2019s \u201cnot concerned about the very poor,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0212\/72321.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a> provides a handy list of Mitt Romney\u2019s growing number of devastating pronouncements this primary season:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. \u201cCorporations are people, my friend.\u201d \u2014 Aug. 11, 2011, to a heckler at the Iowa State Fair.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cI like being able to fire people.\u201d \u2013 Jan. 9, 2012, while speaking about holding insurance service providers accountable.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cI should tell my story. I\u2019m also unemployed.\u201d \u2014 June 16, 2011, after listening to a group of unemployed Floridians talk about their difficulties find a job.<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cI know what it\u2019s like to worry whether you\u2019re going to get fired. There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.\u201d \u2013 Jan. 8, 2012, speaking at a rally about sharing the anxiety of workers worried about losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cRick, I\u2019ll tell you what \u2014 ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet?\u201d \u2014 Dec. 10, 2011, to Rick Perry during a presidential debate trying to settle a dispute about health insurance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Romney wins the GOP presidential nomination, expect to see these statements (and probably others!) run ad nauseum by Barack Obama\u2019s campaign team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of telling CNN this morning that he\u2019s \u201cnot concerned about the very poor,\u201d Politico provides a handy list of Mitt Romney\u2019s growing number of devastating pronouncements this primary season: 1. \u201cCorporations are people, my friend.\u201d \u2014 Aug. 11, 2011, to a heckler at the Iowa State Fair. 2. \u201cI like being able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3324,3325,160,1810],"class_list":["post-12881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-foot-in-mouth-disease","tag-gaffe","tag-mitt-romney","tag-politico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12881"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12887,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12881\/revisions\/12887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}