In a feisty and combative interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, John Sununu doubled down on Mitt Romney's controversial comments at a fundraiser in which he attacked 47% of Americans. Sununu, a top Romney surrogate, said the campaign was about a divide between those who support "big government" and those who support the private sector, and accused President Obama of stoking: class warfare."
Asked by Mitchell about Romney's comments, which were surreptitiously recorded and posted online Monday by the liberal magazine Mother Jones, Sununu accused her of "missing the big story."
Sununu, a former governor of New Hampshire, continued:
This is in response to a president, the first president in my lifetime, who has decided to run a campaign on class warfare. And it's Obama who has opened up the class warfare issue. He attacks success, he says we need to get a hold of more money out of the reach, and he condemns those who have succeeded with “you didn’t build it.” And Mitt Romney quantifies this, the constituency that Obama has been pandering to, both in policy and language, as 47-47, and all of a sudden you guys make that the story.
And he added, in reference to an Obama campaign website showing the role of the social safety net:
You have an Obama website that encourages people to understand that what he is for is an expansion of government so government can take care of them. Mitt Romney puts numbers on that, and says we have a campaign in which those that support big government and those that support the private sector approach are on the other side. That’s the big issue we should be debating.
Watch the whole thing above.
Romney himself has said the comments were "not elegantly stated" but like Sununu has stood by the gist of them.
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You might be able to talk down Anrea but you certainly can't talk that junk to the rest of us. I hate it that Andrea can't take you on like she needs to but I definitely would if given the chance. You are a punk that gorillas people and you need to be stopped.
Not only is Andrea Mitchell one of the absolute best in journalism, informative conversation and just being a superb person. she should win her wings for some of the people that she is willing to calmly talk to, and try to maintain civility in an, otherwise, crazy world. Maybe NBC should loan her to the Secretary of State, and let her go over and negotiate to resolve all of the issues in the Middle East. Seriously, she would get it done!
I am appalled at how the Republican "spin" sounds so grotesque, their double-down of this class warfare thing. Don't they realize that what most people has been feeling about "something not being right" with Mitt Romney on the campaign trail, has now been Confirmed.
Sununu is a pathetic personification of Republican lies and extremist talking points. Why does MSNBC give this clown a open mic.
Andrea Mitchell is NBC's weakest link.......
Why do we still pay attention to John Sununu? He never has substance. All he ever says is "I hear your assessment and your question and I will answer it by screaming at you about something unrelated and untrue. And if that doesn't work, I will scream louder." Just sick Alex Wagner on him. You can see the distint difference in the ending where he thinks he has beaten Mitchell, in contrast to the ending when he knew Wagner had not let him play his game. Why do most the blowhards never visit Ed, Rachel, or Lawrence? That's rhetorical.
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That's rhetorical.
The only conclusion hat can be drawn from Romney's remarks and Sununu's defense of those remarks is that the private sector is not getting its fair share of the government's teat. I don't know what Sununu's income tax bill is, but, we do know what Romney will admit to on his bill and it is a mere pittance of what he should be paying. He pisses and moans about a perceived poor person eking out a living with the help of the safety net, yet he, himself, is a confessed tax shirker. He has amassed a fortune and draws upwards of $30 million a year, and feels no obligation to help his country by paying his fair share.
They didn't build it, they thought of it. The hard working people that are struggling pay check to pay check, doing the work that's making someone else rich and also the customers build a successful business. Without them there would be nothing. The customers dictate what they want, when they want and the quality of products they want. When you come up with an idea that makes a lot of money, paying people making you rich decently should not have to take the back burner to greed. I can't stress enough how much greed has taken over America. It is the biggest problem that has ever happened in America and government to date.
I agree completely, here is a post I made this morning along the same lines so:
Chad D. Gillette we really do not know how much Mitt made in income but I will bet that it far accedes 30 Mil last year. The theory is that these people create money but we all know that each dollar really comes from the blood sweat and tears of someone working at the bottom. It just so happens that someone at the top will take that as his own.
Let use run some numbers. I think it was 2010 that seven Hedge Fund Managers each had pay and bonus's over one billion dollars. That is 1000 1000 1000 yes 1000 three times. If you take the center 1000 put one zero to the left 1000 you get 10,000 and put the remaining two zeros to the right 1000 you get 100,000. Now we have 10,000 and 100,000 so what will we do with this? If some working stiff in poverty (low income job) made an extra $10,000 he would probably move out of poverty right? The 100,000 now comes into the picture... 100,000 now out of poverty, funny how you can manipulate mathematics isn't it. OOPS forgot their was 7 hedge-fund managers, I guess that means we now have 700,000 working stiff no longer in poverty and it only took ($krued) seven billionaires out of one years income.
Lets leave them each with 2 mil, after all they work their a$$'s off to earn it and the 700,000 probably will not even notice the slight decrease in their extra $10,000.
Taxes? Far more taxes will probably end up taking care of infrastructure etc. from the 700,000 than the $krued 7. You know that there are many more than just hedge fund managers out there who take tremendous cuts off the top and do not even think of all those under them that had to do without.
Did you know that conservatives believe that income redistribution should only go in one direction and that is up. And 99% of them do not realize that it is their income that is going up, I mean up to the top as they themselves get a lower pay check.
John Sununu is secretly an Obama supporter and he went on these programs to re-elect Obama!
He's a rude ass.
Oh, Sununu get over yourself. You Republicans are so arrogant, you will say and do any thing. The nasty of the nastiest.I believe you lie so much you actually believing your lies.