POLITICS JANUARY 10, 2012
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Being a man of the people: “I’m also unemployed.”
Sharing his deepest anxieties: “I know what it’s like to worry whether you’re going to get fired. There were a couple of times I wondered if I was going to get a pink slip.”
Giving his plan for the housing market: “Don’t try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom, allow investors to buy homes, put renters in them, fix the homes up and let it turn around and come back up.”
Turning corporate personhood into a catchphrase: “Corporations are people, my friend.”
Misusing the first-person plural: “The tax payers shouldn’t have to have money taken out of their pay checks to pay people in government, who are our servants, who are making a lot more money than we are.”
Mocking non-independently wealthy politicians: “Mitt, never get involved in politics if you have to win an election to pay a mortgage...I was happy that [Kennedy] had to take a mortgage out on his house to ultimately defeat me.”
Misguidedly defending the capital gains of the middle class: “And so what I want to do is lower taxes for middle-income Americans. And so I will remove, for middle-income Americans, people earning under $200,000 a year, any tax on interest, dividends, or capital gains.”
Talking about his father, the CEO of American Motors and later governor of Michigan: “[He was] a guy who made Ramblers.”
Offering Rick Perry a bet: “I’ll tell you what, 10,000 bucks? $10,000 bet?”
At this point, it’s like he’s doing it on purpose: “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.”
10 comments
This guy reminds me of a nerd running for president in high school. He steps in it more times than a cowherd in the dark.
- magboy47.
January 10, 2012 at 2:26am
You don't have to be a member of a group to be "in touch" with it. FDR, surely a scion of the "elite" if there ever was one, was a hero to the working class. He demonstrated real concern through his words and policies. Mitt, apparently, doesn't have quite the same skills.
- dsimon
January 10, 2012 at 10:36am
What nonsense. "The tax payers shouldn’t have to have money taken out of their pay checks to pay people in government, who are our servants, who are making a lot more money than we are.” Yes, and movie goers and sports fans shouldn't have to buy tickets to pay actors and athletes who are making a lot more money than we (sic) are" That noblesse oblige thing again. I supposed Mitt will take no salary and pay rent to live in the White House.
- dubyadoubte
January 10, 2012 at 12:21pm
At the Harry's Place blog, I've started a "Mitt Romney 'I’m just like you' watch." http://hurryupharry.org/2012/01/09/mitt-romney-im-just-like-you-watch/
- gzitver
January 10, 2012 at 2:07pm
What government employee is making more money than Mitt Romney? Even on a bad day? Given the likelihood that Mittens had a trust fund set up for him before he was even born, he was probably making more money (albeit deferred) as an infant than a Four-Star General in the Army or a Cabinet secretary.
- wildboy
January 10, 2012 at 3:10pm
Even Reagan was more in touch with the "little people," as Leona Helmsley called them, than Romney is. And it's too late for him to re-invent himself before the general election. As dsimon said, you can be part of the elite like FDR was and still identify with the poor and the working class. Today's Republicans see the poor and the working class as enemies who are taking something away from them. G.W. Bush once said he wished he knew how poor people thought. No, he doesn't. To him, they're enemies. G.W. Bush: “This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.”
- magboy47.
January 10, 2012 at 4:20pm
Since he's unemployed and down on his luck, maybe Romney can a get a job writing ads for Obama. Maybe he already did.
- fwslusser2
January 10, 2012 at 5:15pm
If corporations are people, Mitt Romney is probably a murderer.
- neilgreen
January 10, 2012 at 7:40pm
fwslusser, there's a chance -- not a certainty, but a chance -- that Romney's presidential campaign will end up doing just that.
- ironyroad
January 10, 2012 at 10:37pm
In the old Arabian Nights tales (if memory serves) a prince would disguise himself as an ordinary citizen and wander among the common people so he could tell what was really going on. Jinn (supernatural creatures) and other hard to believe characters would wander in and out as well. Perhaps Romney will take such a pursuit up so he can cast himself as an ordinary person with more credibility. If you are standing in line at the local food bank and the person next to you looks like Romney...it's his android representative getting in touch with ordinary folk. (I'm presuming that you are an ordinary folk, but unless you are from Darfur or North Korea, perhaps you don't qualify and more than I do. What to do?)
- skahn
January 14, 2012 at 9:40pm