According to the Miami New Times, and ABC News, Mittens Romney appears to be having a senior moment. While campaigning prior to tonight’s debate, or as I was thinking this morning, the latest episode of “Eight is Enough”, the multimillionaire Romney has declared that he too is middle class.
After my spit take, and subsequent cleaning off the computer monitor, I looked into what I had just read, and sure enough Mittens is claiming to be middle class, “We ought to provide help to the people who have been hurt most by the Obama economy. And that’s the middle class,” Romney told the Miami crowd. “It’s not those at the very low end; it’s certainly not those at the very high end. It’s for the great middle class — the 80 to 90 percent of us in this country.
How does someone worth more than $250 million use the word “us” when describing the plight of America’s middle class?
Is this just some slip of the tongue, or does Mittens really just see himself as the average Joe, the guy coming home to his suburban home with wife and kids and dog? Has he forgotten that he’s expanding his west coast mansion – in fact quadrupling its size? Not the average thing to do for the rest of “us” in the middle class.
I suppose however this is a step up from earlier in the summer when Mittens tried claiming he was “unemployed” – (https://thelibertytree.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/romney-jokes-to-unemployed-about-being-out-of-work/).
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