Weekly News #4- “Mitt Romney Video Sends Capitol Hill Republicans Running For The Hills”
19 09 2012Click here for the Huffington Post article.
Click here to see the leaked video of Romney’s controversial comments.
The Huffington Post article “Mitt Romney Video Sends Capitol Hill Republicans Running for the Hills,” describes the reactions of many different Republican congressmen to Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment released earlier this week. The congressmen of the GOP had varied reactions, some standing behind his comments, but a surprising number of politicians, such as Senator Scott Brown (MA) openly denounced Romney’s comments.
This event, and the reactions of the Republican congressmen, is definitely newsworthy. Some people are even saying that these comments will lose the election for Mitt Romney. In an election year, the parties have to stick together and put their full force behind their candidate. The fact that some of the GOP’s most prominent politicians are trying to distance themselves from Romney and his comments shows that he cannot be the best person for the job. How can the Republican Party sell that Mitt Romney ought to become president if the politicians on his own side don’t even agree with his ideas?
The article was well-written and gave several examples of different Republicans who are trying to distance themselves from Mitt Romney and his “47 percent” comment. While I had already read a little on the subject and seen the leaked video, it was smart of the journalist to use the third paragraph of the article to summarize the leaked comments. The only thing that I would have done differently if I were the one writing the article has to do with a quote. This paragraph appears near the middle of the article:
“Everybody is running away from Romney,” Reid said. “That’s why Republicans all over the country are running away from Romney as fast as they can.”
This quote contains reasoning that is very obviously circular, and its inclusion kind of weakens the article as a whole. If I were the journalist, I may have just written “Everybody is running away from Romney” and left it at that. Otherwise, I may have worked to find a different quote.
On a personal note, I believe that these comments further prove to the nation that Romney is not ready for the presidency. It’s a president’s job to make the United States better as a whole for everyone who lives there, not just those who voted for him. And, if elected, it will most definitely be Mitt Romney’s job to take care of not just the 47%, but the 100%.
You’re right about the circular reasoning, hannah. But I wonder if he just said the same thing, only with a bit more explanation the second time. O with emphasis. The reason I mentioned this the other day is that Romney is being taken out of context, to some extent, but nobody seems to care.