Romney: I care about the poor and middle class
Source: Businessweek
ATLANTA (AP) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told donors Wednesday that he cares about the poor and middle class as he tried to stem criticism and address concern from within his own party over secretly-recorded comments that he doesn't need to worry about the half of the country that doesn't pay federal income taxes.
The White House accused Romney of desperately trying to change the subject from an unauthorized video as its political allies continued to drum up heat over the remarks. The video was a welcome change of subject for Democrats from the campaign's long-running debate over the lackluster economy during Obama's presidency.
Both sides were hoping to break out of their dead heat, with the video upending the debate in the campaign seven weeks to Election Day. In the recording made at a private fundraiser in May, Romney said nearly half of Americans who don't pay federal income taxes believe they are victims and entitled to a range of government support and that as a candidate, he doesn't feel a need to worry about them.
Romney tried to correct any impression that he isn't concerned with average Americans during an afternoon fundraiser in Atlanta attended by Gov. Nathan Deal and other state GOP leaders. "The question of this campaign is not who cares about the poor and the middle class," Romney said. "I do. He does. The question is who can help the poor and the middle class. I can. He can't."
Romney stood by his view of what the government's role should be in Americans' lives.
America "does not work by a government saying, become dependent on government, become dependent upon redistribution," Romney told 900 donors who paid as much as $50,000 to attend. "That will kill the American entrepreneurship that's lifted our economy over the years."
Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-09-19/romney-refocuses-as-obama-decries-victim-claim
You hate everyone but your money and the elite.
barbtries
(28,793 posts)for his "class."
the pig.
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)I can prove it.
Can you?
Release the tax returns immediately.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Because most of those poor, leeches and parasites live in solidly "red" states!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/18/mitt-romney-will-probably-get-95-electoral-votes-from-moocher-states-obama-will-probably-get-5/
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)I don't believe him and neither should the rest of the American people.
He does nothing to demonstrate his empathy for anyone but the uber-rich.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Sure ya do.....You care about how well they can clean your pools....Trim your hedges...Piece of shit!!!
Shitty Mitty
(138 posts)I think by "poor," Mitt the Shit meant those making around $200,000 a year
gateley
(62,683 posts)Shitty Mitty
(138 posts)Although I wish I had thought out a better username LOL
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Journeyman
(15,031 posts)a source of food. The poor and middle class will provide an abundant reserve of "Romneylent green."
wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)who passed up millions in income to work with the poor and middle class as a community organizer. A MAN who could have written his own ticket as an African American from Harvard .. Any top law firm would have fast tracked him to partner.
On the other hand we have a greedy bastard who laid off people for his own wealth and never did anything except for himself. Gee who do I think will help the poor and middle class.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)bluesbassman
(19,372 posts)Keep on shilling for ratings Businessweek.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)who 'likes' Romney and only 1-2 out of all my friends and acquaintances who might conceivably vote for him. Even people who plan to vote for him are ashamed to admit it, because he's such a disgusting pig.
I don't think my experience is in any way unique:
Source: Pew Research Center
19 September 2012 With an eight-point lead over Mitt Romney among likely voters, Barack Obama holds a bigger September lead than the last three candidates who went on to win in November, including Obama four years ago. In elections since 1988, only Bill Clinton, in 1992 and 1996, entered the fall with a larger advantage.
Read more: http://pewresearch.org/
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Evasporque
(2,133 posts)rtracey
(2,062 posts)Romney told 900 people @ $50,000 per plate that 47% of US citizens do not pay income taxes, and out of the 47%, the majority of them earn far less per year then this one guy payed for 1 plate of shitty food. And now he wants EVERYONE to believe that he's for the poor and middle class.... ok so here's the scenerio......the horses are running wild in the field and Mitt runs over and closes the barn doors.... Come on.....
strategery blunder
(4,225 posts)Rmoney cares about the poor and middle class like a tick cares about dogs.
It fits so perfectly.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)yes he care alright, he cares whether or not he wins
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)At first I just didn't like your political beliefs but this time you have insulted my family. It's personal now.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)oldsarge54
(582 posts)Where you lying to your donors, or are you lying now. This is waaaay more than a flip/flop etch-a-sketch moment.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Until the minute they've voted for him, and then he couldn't give a rat's ass about any one of them.
But some of "them" are stupid enough to believe him and will vote for him.
This man is simply vile.
subterranean
(3,427 posts)desertduck
(213 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,455 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)Blue Meany
(1,947 posts)DemKittyNC
(743 posts)eat more than once a day too! - LOOK, I can lie also!
What an asshole!
WRH2
(87 posts)If you light your hair on fire, maybe I will vote for ya
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)The more, the merrier!
NHDEMFORLIFE
(489 posts)During the 1960 campaign, Nixon gave a speech trying to refute the perception, well articulated by John F. Kennedy, that he and his party didn't care about the plight of the "little man", as they referred to middle class workers back in the day.
"I'm sick and tired of my opponent saying we don't care about the average working man,'' Nixon said. "We do care!"
If a candidate has to specifically say that he or she cares about something, it usually means the people have already smelled a rat and understand the truth.
Remember, Nixon also went out of his way to tell the country, "I am not a crook!"
lastlib
(23,225 posts)....Now it's a reality show, on 24/7. Mittens hasn't realized that yet...........
Volaris
(10,270 posts)It's THIS SIMPLE. If the vaunted Founders thought like you did, Congress would NOT have the power to raise taxes from the GENERAL POPULATION, and then use that money to build a ...WHATEVER... any where they damn well pleased. The Federal money used to pay for a thing in Upstate New York isn't ALL collected from Upstate New York. This concept is so simple that I can't bring myself to believe the ENTIRE Republican Party apparatus is too stupid to understand it, and it really does piss me off. If this is about the New Deal, then just cop to the fact that Rich People are greedy, self-centered fucks who don't think the poor deserve things like FOOD, (oh, wait you already did) and cop to it PUBLICLY (not that part, though). At least you would score some points for Honesty with the American People, rather than what you are trying to do NOW, which is to try and tell us all that what our eyes tell us is just illusory, and that you really DO care about people less well-off than yourself.
Motherfucker, if that were true in the SLIGHTEST, you wouldn't CARE about how much wealth gets "re-distributed", as long as you and yours had enough to live comfortably on. The BALLS these people have truly is stunning, at least I'll give them credit for that, I guess.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)M_M
(163 posts)Start booking your November cruise right now.
Hotler
(11,421 posts)WooWooWoo
(454 posts)dflprincess
(28,075 posts)Left unsaid: "by cutting the programs that help them and making them "self-sufficient".
What an asshole.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)I will reduce United States employment permanently and feed starving Chinese workers at the same time! Did I mention i have a minor 47% stake in the company that will be overseeing it.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)You are a sociopath. You don't have caring in your DNA.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)when you become president.
Yes, Willard. We know. Everyone knows. You told your donors that you weren't going to lift a finger to represent them, or to help them in any way.