If you're going to deny, don't double down first

Mitt Romney again distanced himself from his infamous 47 percent comments caught on video at a private fundraiser in May, telling CNN in an interview Tuesday night that, "the words that came out were not what I meant."  Link

Sure they weren't. You were in a room full of rich, upper class donors, people just like you, thinking that nothing you said was going to leave the room and you said something you didn't mean.

If that was the case, then why, when the recording first surfaced, did you acknowledge the comments and say that you agreed with them? Why didn't you say from the very beginning that you hadn't said what you meant?

We may be the 47%, but we're not stupid, Governor.