Leaked Romney Audio Recording Worse Than First Reported

It has been widely reported that Mitt Romney is blaming the election results on President Obama bestowing “gifts” upon potential voters “especially the African-American community, the Hispanic community, and young people.”

However, as the recordings below clearly demonstrate, the Romney disconnect with reality is much worse than originally reported.

In on excerpt, Romney talks about Pres. Obama’s “gifts” to Latino talking about what he refers to as the “Dream Act Amnesty Program” and goes on to talk about Obamacare and its impact of Latino voters.

“What the president did is he gave them two things. One, he gave them a big gift on immigration with the DREAM Act amnesty program, which was obviously very very popular with Hispanic voters, and then number two was Obamacare … For a home earning — let’s say $30,000 a year — free health care, which is worth about $10,000 a year, I mean it’s massive, it’s huge. So this — he did two very popular things for the Hispanic community.”

In another, he mocks Democrats saying future candidates should campaign on the idea of “free dental care” as part of the Affordable Care Act:

“It’s a proven political strategy, which is give a bunch of money to a group and, guess what, they’ll vote for you. What I would do if I were a Democrat running four years from now — I’d say dental care ought to be included in Obamacare.”

He even goes so far as making wild claims regarding a phone call with Bill Clinton:

“I spoke with President Clinton the day before yesterday. He called and spent 30 minutes chatting with me. He said, ‘A week out, I thought you were going to win.’ And he said, ‘But the hurricane happened, and it gave the president a chance to be presidential, and to look bipartisan. And you know, he got a little more momentum.’ And of course he also said that when he was watching Ann speak at the Republican convention, he decided he was tempted to join the Republican Party. So he may have just been effusive with generous comments as he chatted. He was very complimentary, by the way, of how well we did with middle-class voters, and he said they were surprised by how strong we were in Ohio and in other states with middle-class voters, they did exceptionally well with minorities, but white, middle-class voters, we really cleaned up with and that caught them by surprise.”

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