And Now, the Weirdest Excerpt From the Romney Video

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You’ve seen all the damaging parts of the secret Romney video. Now watch and be amazed at the weirdest part:

Audience member: How are you going to win if 54 percent of the voters think China’s economy is bigger than ours? Or if it costs 4 cents to make a penny and we keep making pennies? Canada got it right a month ago. Why isn’t someone saying, “Stop making pennies, round it to the nearest nickel?” You know, that’s an easy thing, compared to Iran. I want to see you take the gloves off and talk to people that actually read the paper and read the book and care about knowing the facts and acknowledges power. As opposed to people who are swayed by, you know, what sounds good at the moment. If you turned it into like, “Eat what you kill,” it’d be a landslide. In my humble opinion.

See? This is the kind of stuff you have to put up with at these events. I mean, what the hell is this guy even talking about? It’s a mystery. But whatever it is, I’ll bet he thinks it’s the wisdom of ages. And since Romney wants his $50,000, he has to smile and pretend it makes sense. Welcome to politics.

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