Mitt Romney: “I’m not concerned about the very poor”
By now you have probably heard that Mitt Romney stated he is “not concerned about the very poor.” Of course this is the portion of his statement that the mainstream media has focused on, but this was is not the entirety of his comment. Here is what Mitt Romney said in full:
“I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich. They’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who right now are struggling.”
This sheds a little more light on the position Mitt Romney was trying to articulate; he was stating that the United States already has programs in place to help the poor and that he was worried about middle class America because they do not have the same “safety net” as do the poor. We can debate whether or not that statement is actually true, and I would bet that most struggling Americans would not agree with Mitt Romney, but that is not the subject of this post.
This was a major gaffe by the wannabe president and it ranks right up there with his “there are allot of reasons not to elect me” comment during one of the earlier debates. In case you missed that little gem of intellectual prowess here it is:
These two gaffes are in the queue and Barack Obama is probably drooling at the prospect of facing Mitt Romney knowing that he has these two bullets in his back pocket just waiting for the proper time to fire them at Mitt Romney. And the fact is, Mitt Romney deserves it because we live in a soundbite world and these two soundbites are political gold for Barack Obama in the general election.
Mitt Romney should know better by now; he has been running for president for at least six years–probably longer if you factor in the possibility that he only ran for the Senate and Governorship of Massachusetts as a primer to run for president in the future–and by this time he should have already learned that every single word he utters will the dissected, analyzed, critiqued, and used against him during the campaign but still he isn’t smart enough to avoid such asinine statements. One has to question his political intelligence at this point, and his true potential of beating Barack Obama in the general election.
America's Watchtower 
Romney sucks! He is a walking DNC advertisement.
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Yeah he is! Ron Paul had no problem using his words against him, what do you think Obama is going to do to him with $1 billion to spend?
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Technically, Mitt is correct. Mitt is a technically correct kind of guy. Unfortunately, technically correct isn’t going to beat Obama, particularly when he’s saying stuff like this.
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He may be technically correct but you would think that after 6 years of campaigning Romney would have a better understanding of how this is going to play to the people, especially with Obama preparing a reelection campaign based on class warfare.
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I can see the television ad now…
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Obama’s left the USA in such a mess ANY voted candidate will have need a life time to get it back to ‘normal.’
I can’t even imagine people considering vote for Obama. Romney will be no better. Just ask yourselves… would he take a back door cheque? Of course he would. Romney is all about money… just like Obama is.
Good luck USA. Try to be more careful this time and ask the right questions. eg… eligibility. Don’t forget Obama was able to swing it off with an illegal SSN. So sad.
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Sorry, but this is one of the cases where I give the fellow a pass. Just like when candidate Obama mentioned that there was only one more state to campaign in after they’d been in 57.
In fact, Obama was technically inaccurate, while the only fault being found with Romney’s statement is found when it’s taken out of context.
My party will make a big deal of it, though, just like others howled when Obama made the gaffe about the number of states (I’m not suggesting that was his only verbal miscue, just the one that pops to mind before I’ve finished the first cup of coffee.) It’s a shame, but we justify the media’s highlighting of such things when we so eagerly lap them up. Which is really more important, though – Romney’s rare inability to articulate his thoughts, or Paul’s demand that we audit the Fed (for example)? As long as we so willingly permit the media – Fox as well as MSNBC – to focus on such meaningless moments, our “leaders” will continue to harp on them.
And with the current debate over the economy and jobs, the central issue when debating President Obama’s record shouldn’t be that our unemployment rate still hovers over 8%, despite the bailouts, it should be an examination of what it would be if we hadn’t spent the money. As long as we let the media focus on what Romney said, or how much lingerie Mrs. Obama bought in Paris, though, we’ll never debate the (IMO) more substantive issues.
Romney’s remark reminded me of something I heard years ago – the wealthy don’t need any help, because they’ve got their (bond) coupons, and the poor don’t need any help because they’ve got agencies. It’s the people caught in the middle who have to work to make those bonds pay, and who have to pay taxes to fund the agencies, who are most squeezed in a financial crisis.
Y’all take real good care, and may God bless us all!
TGY
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I am willing to give him a pass as well, I know what he was trying to say. But we have already seen the backlash from this statement in the media and even Newt has jumped on it and that was the point I was trying to make. Mitt should know by now that everything he says is going to be looked at and used against him and there is no excuse for his making this statement knowing this. He is going to be skewered for this comment and it doesn’t matter if what he said was accurate or not and he should have kniwn better considering how long he has been running for president.
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He apparently is not able to, or does not understand Conservative values. Another shot at classes again. A rising tide lifts all boats.
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Or sinks them as in the case of Romney!
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I think they refer to this as a “gotcha” moment.
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And that sad part is, he did it to himself.
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