Mitt Romney: Little to Like

Mitt Romney: The ‘Everyday Joe’

Mitt Romney just doesn’t get it; he just doesn’t understand the trials and tribulations that American families go through every day. No matter how hard he tries to present himself as an Everyday Joe, he manages to do just the opposite, and ends up highlighting his elitism.

Then when Romney hears criticism about being distant, aloof, rich and elite, he says, “If people think that there is something wrong with being successful in America, then they better vote for the other guy”.

 But that is not the problem, the Everyday Joe doesn’t care that he’s rich and successful, what voters are looking for is someone who is able to connect with them, even when they are not rich and successful.

Every American Joe would like to be rich and successful, like Romney, but until that day comes, if it does come, Americans want a President that understands everyday “kitchen table” discussions. Not someone who’s never faced any of the problems Americans face on a daily basis, and certainly not someone who has shown that he cannot relate.

Speaking of tables, on the campaign trail in Rochester, New Hampshire, while seated with a group of possible supporters and trying to fit in as an Everyday Joe, Romney stunned them when he said, “I know what it’s like to worry whether you’re going to get fired. There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.”

In November 2008, Mitt Romney wrote an Op-Ed for the NY Times, that liberal newspaper that Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are always damning as they quote the paper. In the Op-Ed Romney writes about the proposed bailouts for the US Auto Industry, first by former President George W. Bush, and then President Obama after he took. The title of the Op-Ed: Let Detroit go Bankrupt

"If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye."

Back on February 1, 2012, Mitt Romney said, "I'm in this race because I care about Americans.” And then, in the very next sentence he says, but “I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it.” The same safety nets that the Republican Party seeks to eliminate; Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.

Romney showed how aloof he was when he said that nothing should be done to stop foreclosures, and here in Nevada, where we have one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation, that did not sit well with Nevadans. Romney will lose Nevada partly because of that statement.

''Don't try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.''

Then there’s NASCAR, the Daytona 500, Romney wanted to be among the working Joe’s. Romney had dressed down, he wore no tie and wanted to enjoy a day at the races among the masses, and then he was asked by an AP reporter if he followed NASCAR. And only an out of touch elitist like Romney could have responded the way he did.

"Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans. But I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners." Romney replied.

But it didn’t stop there; Romney commented on the attire that some fans were wearing. As Romney approached a group of fans wearing plastic ponchos as “fancy raincoats”, something that was certainly alien to him in his world, he just couldn’t help himself with his comment.

“I like those fancy raincoats you bought,” he said. “Really sprung for the big bucks.”

When it was announced on the PA system that Romney was in attendance, the crowd booed. They might have booed because of his elitism, and not being able to connect to Everyday Joe’s, or it could have been that the NASCAR cars were made in America. Remember the title of that Op-Ed: Let Detroit go Bankrupt.

Romney talks of owning several cars, he even says his wife drives two Cadillac’s, he owns many homes, he even offered a bet to Rick Perry on stage during a debate for $10,000. Mitt Romney hides his money in foreign banks that are in foreign countries, such as the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, Bermuda, Australia, Germany, Ireland, and Luxemburg. He paid 13.9% in taxes, the Everyday Joe, paid twice as much.

This is the world of Mitt Romney, not the Everyday Joe. Americans don’t care that he is rich and successful; they just wish that he could relate to the problems that they face on an everyday basis. And Romney has shown over and over that he is out of touch with ‘Real Americans”.

 

Mitt Romney during a debate says "Well, I'm not concerned about the voters"

 

 

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