Martin Bashir   |  September 18, 2012

Top Lines: Romney, 47%, taxes, Snooki and Honey Boo Boo

Stephen Colbert on Mitt Romney and “premature inauguration”; Romney talks Snooki and Honey Boo and makes other remarks; Obama offers Romney some tax prep tips; and Republicans scramble for cover amid a general Romney implosion in today’s Top Lines.

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>>> from mitt romney sleeping in the buff to mitt romney caught revealing the naked truth . here are today's "top lines." time to cover up, mitt.

>> we will never have the elite, smart people on our side.

>> just because people know things, doesn't mean we should listen to them.

>> it was the early to mid, everyone was experiencing with democracy then.

>> his foreign policy statement was a case of premature inauguration.

>> what does mitt where to bed?

>> i think the best answer is as little as possible.

>> honey booboo or snooki.

>> i'm kind of a snooki fan. i have a terrific campaign. my seen nor campaign people work extraordinarily well together.

>> i have done my own taxes. i don't know about some of these other folks.

>> good evening. i understand that there's a video that's been on the internet. i'd certainly appreciate if they released the whole tape. the president believes in what i have described as a government-centered society. of course, individuals are going to take responsibility for their life. the president has his group, i have my group. it's not elegantly stated, let me put it that way. i'm speaking off the cuff.

>> you are president of all the people, not just the people who voted for you.

>> what he was trying to say is that the number of people on food stamps , the number of people that depend on government.

>> this is the guy who said i like to fire people .

>> i don't think the candidate's off message at pull.

>> it's almost as if he was brought into a strategy session.

>> this whole thing that mitt romney can't relate to middle class people.

>> but he never said i'm not going to not work for them.

>> you have to move on to secretly recorded videos. well, frame mitt romney as thurston howell iii .

>> he was saying what he believed about half of america.

>> i think it's ridiculous that people are seizing on it and we're even giving all that much air time to it.

>> they're devastating because they're not shocking.

>> who dismisses 47%.

>> you have to try to be campaign to be president for all americans. it's so contemptuous and so condescending.

>> he's not acting like a candidate that wants this thing at times.