Romney remark that 47% Americans feel entitled was 'misstep'

October 01, 2012 08:28

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a misstep when he described 47 percent of Americans as feeling entitled to government aid, his vice presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, said.

"We have had some missteps," Ryan said on Fox News Sunday, adding that one of them was the comment Romney made at a private session with donors about the attitude of almost half of Americans.

Romney "acknowledges himself that was an inarticulate way of describing how we are worried that, in a stagnant Obama economy, more people have become dependent on government because they have no economic opportunity," said Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee.

Romney's comment, made in May, surfaced in a secretly recorded video first publicized September 17 by Mother Jones magazine.

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