Romney: Hillary fights for the rich and she's out of touch with poor Americans, so elect me instead

[Cali_Democrat]

Romney, Sudden Inequality Hawk, to Hit Clinton On Poverty
By DANIEL STRAUSSPublishedJANUARY 28, 2015, 1:51 PM EST

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will attack former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the economy and foreign policy during a speech at Mississippi State University on Wednesday night.

According to speech excerpts obtained by NBC, Romney, who has indicated if he decides to run for president again one of the pillars of his campaign would be inequality, will ask "How can Secretary Clinton provide opportunity for all if she doesn't know where jobs come from in the first place?"

"Short term, our economy is looking up," Romney plans to say. "But it is a lot better for the few, and pretty darn discouraging for the many. Incomes haven't gone up in decades."

Romney's last presidential campaign in 2008 suffered from repeated attacks related to Romney's wealth and background as a CEO. One of the lowest points in his campaign came after he said that the 47 percent of the country who depend on government would not vote for him. The moment was caught on video, and circulated widely.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mitt-romney-hillary-clinton-economy-poverty-inequality


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http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/28/politics/romney-clinton-wealth/index.html

Romney targets Hillary Clinton as he considers presidential bid

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Those attacks build on comments his team made earlier Wednesday. As Romney heads to the nation's poorest state, his political team is fighting back against perceptions that his wealth could be a political liability if he runs for president again, arguing that Clinton is no model for modest living, either.

"It's going to be hard for Hillary Clinton to make Mitt Romney's wealth a fruitful line of attack, with her multi-million dollar mansions in Georgetown and Chappaqua and her jet-setting lifestyle of the rich and famous," a Romney aide said Wednesday.

[Rhinodawg]

1. What a lying pos. Drop Dead , Mittens.

[SummerSnow]

12. he's cant wait to lie.lol. It's like a disease.

LIEABETES:The inability to tell the truth.

"He never tells the truth. He has lieabetes. Like diabetes but with lies."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lieabetes

[louis-t]

17. Lieabetes!

[FSogol]

30. Duzy!

[onecaliberal]

67. Best line ever!!!!!

[2naSalit]

85. I doubleDUzy this one!!!

Yesssindeedy!

[Cali_Democrat]

21. LOL

Lieabetes.

That's awesome.

[calimary]

64. Totally!!! Stealing it!!

Too Excellent!!!

Lieabetes!!!! A disease often proving fatal to presidential wannabe makeovers!

[Tarheel_Dem]

78. POST! OF! THE! DAY! "Lieabetes"?

[Number23]

82. "Like diabetes but with lies."

[laserhaas]

102. Cool

Won't forget this one...

[riversedge]

13. I will settle for just putting him out to pasture where he can blow off his methane

to the wind

[trusty elf]

87. ....

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[MohRokTah]

2. The Republicans are trying to set up a smoke screen for 2016.

Given the average intelligence of the American voter, it could conceivably work. Especially with an extra billion thrown at the race by the 1%.

[dhill926]

7. I believe you are correct….

gonna be a crazy cycle...

[riversedge]

16. and the 1% has a Koch

one million (about) start up seed money already

[Wellstone ruled]

20. This is the Game Plan of

the Rethugs. Stuff like this started to appear late last summer. Remember,every message is focus grouped before it is applied. We Dems are slow to get our shit together in this area.

[1StrongBlackMan]

48. Quick assignment for those that seek open eyes ...

DU-search variations of the terms: Clinton + 3rd-Way, 1%, wealthy, bankers, out of touch ... and for real kicks, note the dates!

It's NOT just the republican's Game Plan.

[Tarheel_Dem]

79. Are you implying that the RNC might have engaged in trollery & data collection at the good ol' DU?

[1StrongBlackMan]

84. Or, well ...

Okay ... Let's go with that!

[roguevalley]

35. great. two zillionaires arguing over their bonafides to talk about

my life. Fuck them both.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

36. Seriously. I'm with Warren.

[roguevalley]

39. at least she knows we're alive. :D

[Tarheel_Dem]

80. CNN Money: "Elizabeth Warren is worth millions"

Senator Elizabeth Warren fights for middle- and working-class Americans. But she's part of the Top 1%.

Warren, the Harvard bankruptcy law professor elected to the Senate in 2012, is worth between $3.7 million and $10 million.

That's not including the three-story Victorian home in Cambridge, Mass., that she owns with her husband and fellow Harvard law professor, Bruce Mann. It's now assessed at $1.9 million, according to city property records.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/08/news/economy/elizabeth-warren-wealth/index.html

[Enthusiast]

93. Me too. I ignore the nay sayers.

[sarge43]

46. Nailed it. Thank you n/t

[Thinkingabout]

3. He doesn't really care about the 47% so he needs to come up with another excuse.

[misterhighwasted]

4. 360' flip flop

Is he senile?

[surrealAmerican]

34. No, just shameless ...

... and staggeringly out of touch.

I think he said it best himself the last time he ran for president: "severely conservative", it's kind of like a form of brain damage.

[TBF]

5. There really should be a bleach warning on this ... nt

[HereSince1628]

6. Is this simply charades or are we approaching the flipping point?

The flipping point being a consequence of the campaign on the right going left of the campaign from the left, and vice versa?

I'd guess charade, but who am I to think my guess means anything?

[KingCharlemagne]

18. You're pretty fucking astute in my book. Might this be -- GASP! -- the equivalent of LBJ's

embrace of civil rights and racial equality (thereby writing off the solidly Democratic South for at least a generation)?

Nah, I've taken Romney's measure. Unlike his Dad, this iteration is an out-and-out phony, getting ready to do all of us what he did to his dog and to John Lauber so many years ago.

On a humorous note, wouldn't it be funny if Mitt, like his father, claimed he had been 'brainwashed,' this time about supply-side economics?

[Cosmocat]

63. not even remotely

it is the same old republican bulshit ...

Talk about what is topical at the time at a campaign level.

But, the policy widgets are the same.

WE NEED EQUALITY and the only way to get it is the time proven policies of tax cuts and deregulation!

[tridim]

8. This GOP campaign is going to be CRAZY!

I can hardly wait.

[salin]

9. Is there anyone, whose name isn't Romney, think this guy should run again?

The GOP has a bunch of hasruns whose mere utterances are ripe for mocking.

[bvf]

28. I for one would love to see him run again

just to see another series of implosions on the national stage.

This attempt at rebranding is particularly hilarious.

[salin]

43. It would be amusing. Evidence piece 1

Claiming Hillary is for the 1 % and that he - of corporations are people! - fame, and on-tape calling half of Americans as freeloaders - is for the middle class. Derp!

But still who really thinks he *should* run (as in those who think he could win, and would be a good president)... really... anyone who doesn't have Romney as part of their name?

[bvf]

45. Since you put it that way,

I humbly concede to your point.

I think a lot of his supporters winced repeatedly during his last go-round. Politically, he's dead in the water for the rest of his days.

[Nay]

89. Me, too. Every waiter on the planet is going to be recording his speeches so

it can ALL come out, like the 47% video. I can't believe that there exists someone so shameless as Romney. He's in a class by himself, really. It means he's certifiably nuts.

[treestar]

91. As I remember, even his immediately family had several members

who would say things about him that hurt him, as if they didn't want him to win. Queen Anne thought being FLOTUS would be too hard, as she thought campaigning was awfully hard.

And with this new line, he'd have to show his tax returns.

[Vinca]

10. This is really the Onion . . . right???

[Dont call me Shirley]

11. STFU, Prima Mitta

[hifiguy]

14. F.U. Mittwit, this is a case of

?1

[louis-t]

15. When are people going to start laughing in his face?

Idiot.

[Shrike47]

19. Mitt Romney, man of the people. Does he really think he can sell that?

[jen1980]

24. He is human so he is people

Isn't he?

[Jackpine Radical]

29. Corporations are people too, my friend.

[hifiguy]

31. Well, he is a manlike object.

Whether he is fully human or a well-disguised outer-space lizard man is still up for grabs.

[NightWatcher]

22. Everybody with a car elevator say WOOOOoooo

Haha gotcha Mitt.

[sheshe2]

77. Ha ha

[FLPanhandle]

23. Is this an Onion article?

He can't be that stupid

[TheBlackAdder]

25. Hey, if media doesn't call him out--he wins. Scarborough was saying how Kochs hate inequality. nt

[Jamaal510]

26. Thumb war!

In that pic, Willard looks like he wants to challenge somebody to a Thumb War.

[TheBlackAdder]

27. Then FIGHT TO PROTECT THE US POSTAL SERVICE that poor, elderly, and shut-ins rely on! nt

[Bandit]

32. Please Proceed

[BeeBee]

33. Meanwhile, back on Bizarro World... n/t

[99Forever]

37. I'll take neither, thanks.

They have way too much in common.

[winter is coming]

38. Well, he's 47% right... n/t

[MrScorpio]

40. This guy has been pretty much the worst campaigner I've seen in my entire life.

I discount him from the other klowns in the Republikkkan Klown Kar because HE'S the one who's supposed to be taken seriously.

If he wants to play this game, I wish him all the luck... That he misses populated areas when he eventually crashes and burns in flames.

[GoCubsGo]

41. He would know firsthand, I guess.

Given how filthy rich he is. Not that I believe even a word that comes out of his mouth.

[90-percent]

42. Suggestion for a Mitt Campaign promise

A car elevator for every family in America below the poverty line.

That'll teach those damn moochers to be so envious of the "job creators"!

-90% Jimmy

[sarge43]

47. Suuure he knows how I live.

He's probably got walk in closets bigger than my house

A rich man can have empathy, but Romney wouldn't know empathy if it bit him in the ass.

[LWolf]

44. I'm not electing either one of them. nt

[maddiemom]

49. Do either of Hillary's "mansions" have car elevators?

[merrily]

55. If neither does, would that mean she is broke with well over $100 million?

[Jakes Progress]

50. Here's the thing though.

He's not campaigning for votes from people with the ability to think. This message if for the brain-dead idiots that would consider voting for a republican.

For these drones, this message works. He doesn't care how stupid it sounds. He's counting on stupid.

[Bad Granny]

51. Mrs. Clinton's policies and stances DO make her vulnerable to attacks like this, no matter how

ridiculous the concept of any rethug doing anything to "fight poverty."

We do not believe this POS for one minute regarding his sincerity to help those in need.

But neither do we dismiss his verbiage out-of-hand, because we have seen where her loyalties truly reside - and it is not with the poor or working people.

Whatever effectiveness he will have with this tact is totally dependent on HER - her positions and if she changes her corporate stripes.

[fbc]

68. I concur. How desperate are democrats when they support a candidate open to attacks like these?

[hifiguy]

76. Well it's her TURN!

Because name recognition!

Please avert your eyes from her palling around with the top execs at Goldman and war criminal Henry Kissinger. Pay no attention to her obvious servitude to our Plutocratic Overlords and sit down/be quiet.

[840high]

83. I will not avert my eyes.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

52. I find the whole "I built it, no you didn't " argument laughable

Nobody builds a fortune by themselves. They build it because there is a whole structure in place to make it possible, i.e. roads, bridges, police, a justice system, an educational system to prepare workers, et cetera. i assure you there are no billionaires in Zimbabwe.

That doesn't obviate the fact that some folks are better able to exploit these advantages than others.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

53. lol, agree that Hillary does look after the rich-most notably herself & corporate interests. But comin from Shitt Romney? Puh-leeasse! Now that truly is rich!!

[HappyMe]

54. Neither of them know jack about being poor.

[merrily]

56. I hope they nominate Romney because I think anyone can win against him,

including Hillary. I don't think she can beat Jeb or any other Republican who generates a lot of excitement among Republicans. I don't think Romney will do that.

[djean111]

57. Just made me think of PeeWee Herman - "I know you are, but what am I?" - from/to

each other.

[Blue Owl]

58. Such a genuine, well-crafted platform

[Third Doctor]

59. This HAS to be from the Onion right?

[Beacool]

60. Romney accused Hillary of fighting for the rich????

Romney??????????

[Sopkoviak]

61. Mitt seems to forget that he was soundly destroyed by Obama

Of course the same can be said of Hillary.


I hope we can do better than those 2 losers running against each other.

[Initech]

62. Pot calling the kettle black, much?

[nilram]

65. Right, why have a poser when you can have the real deal?

What a piece of work.

[Fuddnik]

66. Corporate Raider v Walmart Director.

Heads I win, tails you lose.

[tclambert]

69. He complains, "Incomes haven't gone up in decades." So now he favors increasing the minimum wage?

Sometimes I crack myself up. Oh, Romney, champion of the poor!

[Nay]

90. I know. I can feel my head exploding. WTF?? How can he not be laughed

out of the room??

[laserhaas]

70. MitPrison

The technical term for knowledge before, during and/or after the fact of crimes

18 U.S. Code § 4 - MisPrision of felony

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/4

[lark]

71. Pot calling kettle black

He's the worst of the worst and no one (except the uneducated teabaggers who voted for him last time) will believe him. Hillary is definitely too corporate leaning for my tastes, but she's not Mr. 47% like Mitt.

[Bossy Monkey]

72. Mitt Romney: still the world's greatest standup comedian n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

73. Takes one to know one!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

74. Romney's speeches need a laugh track to go with them

[kiranon]

75. How many of his homes is he donating to

Habitat for Humanity? Shameless display of nothingness in his so called fake battle against inequality. Absolutely no one believes him. It's not what you say but what you do and have done that defines one's true intent.

[Dawson Leery]

81. Romney stole billions in cash for his cronies at Bain!!!

"Lying for the Lord" again you piece of devil worshipping s**t!

[JDPriestly]

86. Warren or Sanders. Their chances look really good when I read this.

Remember the old song, "Which Side Are You On?"

Romney thinks he can run again because he thinks he has been chosen by God.

He hasn't been chosen by God and he is wasting his time on another run. People don't like him. Didn't like him in 2012 and won't like him in 2016.

[indivisibleman]

88. The Romney aide said:

"It's going to be hard for Hillary Clinton to make Mitt Romney's wealth a fruitful line of attack, with her multi-million dollar mansions in Georgetown and Chappaqua and her jet-setting lifestyle of the rich and famous."
This is an example of how right-wingers buy into their own propaganda. Most people I know don't hold a person's wealth against them. The problem people have with some people's wealth, such as Mitt's, is that it was gained through unscrupulous means.

[Autumn]

92. Yes she does but then mittens is defiantly out of touch and he lies.

But at least Hillary pays some taxes.

[geretogo]

94. Spoken like a true Sociopath Mit . There are still thousands more living wage jobs you can give to

the Chinese government to get our people out of poverty .

[NorthCarolina]

95. He's absolutely right about Clinton, BUT he's certainly no better

when it comes to working for the rich and being out of touch with middle class and poor folks.

[C Moon]

96. More photos of Romney pumping gas, please!

[DFW]

97. I'd say it looks like Willard has realized how far he got with his polemics

Which is to say, nowhere: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/mitt-romney-2016-presidential-election.html?_r=0

[panfluteman]

98. IMO, It's all a big Republican experiment to see how much can be accomplished

with billions in campaign money from the Koch brothers and the other billionaire donors. If nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people, it just might work. They're definitely counting on getting the dumb and dumber out to vote for them. Can you take a candidate who would be a total loser and washed-out has been in any healthy and functioning democracy and somehow, against all normal political odds, put him in the White House? If you can do that, then you can do anything, you can work absolute miracles with your billions.

[ZX86]

99. Let me guess. What's the plan for helping the poor and middle class?

More tax cuts for rich and looser regulations for corporations. Right?

[V0ltairesGh0st]

100. You're already down 47% Mitt.

8 years is not enough to erase that from our minds, like you might hope. The only way you, or jeb bush ,or scott walker, or any republican moron who ran in 08, could win an election is to kiss Charles, and David Koch's assholes... and walker is frenching his way to victory right now.

[on point]

101. Except for the solution, he is right