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Michael Tomasky: Mitt Tells Voters in Video to Drop Dead

DROP DEAD

Sure it was a dumb move for Romney to denounce half of America. But he was just channeling today’s GOP. Plus, find out who the 47 percent are, and Robert Shrum on the coming GOP civil war.

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Let’s cut right to the chase. Is Mitt Romney’s caught-on-video denunciation of half of America worse than Barack Obama’s infamous “cling” comments of 2008, when he was similarly caught in flagrante? You bet it is.

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