Mitt the fucking liar sez: I meet secretly with regular families to learn about

[cali]

how people struggle economically.

To understand economic struggles, Romney says he meets with regular families _ off the record



By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, May 4, 3:34 PM

PITTSBURGH — Mitt Romney says he learns about what it’s like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down and chatting with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn’t want anybody to see it — and his campaign won’t say who he meets with or when the meetings occur.

In interviews and on the campaign trail, Romney regularly says he learns about the struggling economy by talking to people affected by it.


He said earlier this week that he meets with families “almost every day.” On Friday, he said the talks are “off the record” and that he agrees to keep private the names of those he meets with.

Aides did not respond to a request for more information about the meetings and the participants.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/to-understand-economic-struggles-romney-says-he-meets-with-regular-families-_-off-the-record/2012/05/04/gIQAwWZt1T_story.html

Contemptible piece of shit.

[truebrit71]

1. "Some of my best friends are Jews/Black/Gay..."

Complete, total and utter BULLSHIT....

[CenaW]

12. Well the billionaire and multi-hundred millionaire ones. . . .extreme wealth has a different

door policy.

[Grins]

104. Absolutely correct!

There is no way in hell that he meets with regular people "every day" and the press not knowing or writing about it. Complete, total and utter, bullshit.

[NavyDavy]

2. yeah he meets with his staff members........somebody would notice secret service in their

neighborhoods......

[monmouth]

3. He's a compulsive liar. Is there an app for that? Very dangerous..n/t

[ananda]

4. ROFL

This satisfies my daily laugh out loud political absurdity fix.

Thanks Mitt.

[Skittles]

94. I had the same reaction

what a clueless fucking ASSHOLE

[Fumesucker]

5. Mission Improbable..

Good afternoon Mr Romney, your mission today should you choose to accept it is to secretly meet with some "average Americans", as always we will deny any knowledge and this tape will self destruct i..<booom!> <tinkle><tinkle>


Sorry about that, chief..

[cali]

7. .....

[tinymontgomery]

84. ROTFL

Best laugh I've had today

[AtomicKitten]

6. I'm sure RMoney meets with the Koch family regularly.

[Scuba]

8. Sounds like Caribou Barbie and the newspapers she reads.

[Wind Dancer]

9. Yeah right!

The man is absolutely delusional!

[Wait Wut]

10. I'm sure he does.

...on the golf course.
...at the yacht club.
...at the shareholder's meetings.
...and he travels to other countries to meet up with regular families, frequently...on vacation.

Y'all are being too harsh. "Regular" is different in his world.

[Skinner]

11. He will lie about anything.

So incredibly transparent. What a fool.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. I'm more worried that he believes it himself...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. He meets with all those regular folks at the country club

for nine holes of golf followed by gin and tonics on the patio, and they tell him all about how tough it has become to send Muffy and Chip to the better Montessori schools while saving up for Choate or Groton, not to mention Princeton or Harvard later on, and sending them to sailing camp in the summer, and of course maintaining the condo in Palm Springs and the summer place on Martha's Vineyard, and the nanny wants a raise and do you know how much new headlights for a Benz cost these days? And we just had to fire one of our pilots; he wanted health insurance! Can you imagine? The lease rates for Citation Xs are just ridiculous so of course we've had to cut back on staff!

[The Wielding Truth]

14. OMG! It's like we are unworldly oddities to be studied in undisclosed labs. Mittens go home and be

with your rich friends. Don't try to be our leader. It's to foreign for you.Let the man in charge do his job and leave us alone.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Is he accompanied by people wearing lab coats

and carrying clipboards?

Do they take notes about their anthropological investigations?

"Subject is eating a strange spongy substance he refers to as a "moon pie."

"Subject is wearing trousers made of a rough bluish fabric; they seem to be held together with brass rivets."

"Subject and his family unit claim they actually reside full-time in a single dwelling. They claim they have to pay for it on a monthly basis because of something called a "mortgage." The children have never been to sailing camp."

[The Wielding Truth]

65. SNL should do this as a skit. Rmoney cannot relate to me.

[Flatpicker]

15. Every day

R-Money sounds more and more like Judge Smails.
He's a parody of a real person.

[exboyfil]

38. One of my favorite quotes of all time

"The world needs ditch diggers too." I use the quote to motivate my daughters. I love that movie.

[riderinthestorm]

18. Oh FFS!! Bullshit! Why wouldn't he play UP meeting with regular families to hear their concerns?

Why the hell would this be "secret, names withheld"? Since he's being portrayed as out-of-touch 1%er, it would be pure gold for rMoney to be seen having face to face meetings with real struggling families and listening to their concerns - daily even!

Unless of course it's all bullshit. That's the only reason this would need to be "secret", because it never happened!

[cali]

23. that's the thing: Just about every moment of a candidate's life

is known to the press. It's a stupid, arrogant lie.

[PatSeg]

87. We all remember

how well that meeting with regular people went in Bethel Park, PA in April, resulting in Cookiegate. Or that get-together in Florida with unemployed voters, where he said he's "unemployed too". I think his campaign learned that Mitt cannot meet with regular people if there's a camera around.

Of course, I think he's just making it up. There's no way he could meet with people daily without something being leaked to the press.

[get the red out]

19. To be fair

He may have had a conversation with the people hired to put in the car elevator.

[gateley]

63. elevatorS. I believe there are four. nt

[coalition_unwilling]

67. I'm so flashing on Versailles, ca. 1789 and Moscow, ca. 1917. - n/t

[gateley]

68. I was reading that as Versailles and Moscow California!

Huh?

I know -- now, as then, they think they're untouchable. The masses now don't have it as bad -- yet -- but I've no doubt we don't have far to go.

[coalition_unwilling]

69. Agreed the masses don't have it as bad yet, but it's that

ostentatious in-your-face 'FU' that brought to mind the historical analogues.

It would behoove Mitt to consider, popular misunderstandings notwithstanding, that the French Revolution was NOT for the most part a bunch of poor peasants rising up against the nobleman. It was instead a middle- and working-class revolution against aristocratic and monarchic privilege.

[gateley]

72. Understood. But I'm not sure Mitt DOES get it -- I think he thinks they were all peasants. Just

my sense of him.

[KatyMan]

20. I secretly meet with Martians

They ask me all kinds of questions about life on earth. I can't reveal any more.

[Flatpicker]

24. You too?

They must really be into secrecy, because they didn't tell me about your meeting.

[KatyMan]

25. Maybe they did

and neither of us remember. It could happen!

[Aerows]

39. I can't talk about it

and I can't talk about why

[LuckyLib]

21. And he no doubt takes Ann in her $1000 t-shirt so she can

feel down with the regular folks.

[alphafemale]

22. Yeah he slums with mere millionaires who struggle through life with only one yacht.

asshole

[SmileyRose]

55. LOL

[lunasun]

111. They complain about their stock portfolio being down and how they are struggling to make profit! yep

thats who he means -"the only one yachters' are his idea of downtrodden folk no doubt

Everyday people need to meet him on the campaign trail with rotten fruit and veggies and fling!

People can have all the money in the world and still be losers

[hifiguy]

26. Sure he does.

He talks at his servants once in a while. If Mittens knows anything about the travails of the working and middle classes, I am Napoleon Fucking Bonaparte.

[bullwinkle428]

27. "I love regular families! Some of my best friends own them as pets!"

[EOTE]

28. Don't believe him? Ask the invisible ghost who never lies, he'll back up Romney.

Oh, what's that? I'm being told that the invisible ghost who never lies is throwing his support to Obama.

[DearAbby]

29. Hey maybe the media could come up with "regular" people

Let us know how it went, did you serve 7-11 cookies, or day old pastries from the bakery? How did that meeting go? Sit around the kitchen table with your bills spread out?


***Let me tell you guys. If Romney ever done this there would have been five camera crews there recording this historic event. Yeah Romney met with "regular" people? REGULAR is now the new title of the "unwashed"?

[applegrove]

30. Liar!

[wandy]

31. He has to meet with regular families in secret.....

Just because he is running for president, his fellow BlueBloods would never approve.
"Tut, Tut Mitt old boy, aren't you afraid you'll catch something"?

[politicasista]

32. Mute Romney has never walked a mile in those families' shoes

after he fake charms them, he go back to his posh hotel/ silver loft on the hill.

[sulphurdunn]

33. I'm sure Mitt's people

bring lots of disinfectant when he slums at these secret rendezvous with the merely rich.

[tanyev]

34. His lawn crew, the cook, the maids, the people who take care of Ann's horses...

...just regular folk who can be counted on to tell him the full truth about how they struggle and how they feel about it.

[eyewall]

56. That was my thought too, the servants.

[Smilo]

35. Wearing a hazmat suit and breathing pure oxygen.......

Mitt decided to mix with the hoi polloi. Unfortunately, things went awry and he found himself at a meeting of cooks for 7-11.

[Can I Come Home]

36. In an Undisclosed Location

I'm sure!

[dmr]

37. LIAR!

[Botany]

75. + 1

BTW in secret I play linebacker in the NFL too

[Aerows]

40. Egads

"I can't tell you who I'm meeting with, but I promise I do."

If that doesn't scream LIE in six foot neon letters, nothing does.

[zbdent]

41. Actually, it's hard to avoid them when they're working in one of your many homes ...

and he does it in secret so nobody hears how horribly he pays them ...

[Beartracks]

42. "He hears from them about the Obama economy..."

Is anyone else thinking that these regular folks are pre-screened for Romney?

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[cali]

43. No. I think he's lying about meeting with regular people.

He says he does this just about every day. Impossible. The campaign issues a schedule for him to the press.

[southernyankeebelle]

44. I got a bridge in china to sell if anyone believes that story. We saw how he

reacted at the picnic table with regular citizens. He was a fool.

[TBF]

45. Maybe these are imaginary friends -

my sister had a couple of those when she was 4 and she was quite detailed about their comings & goings.

Or, maybe he's just lying. Again.

[renate]

46. oh, BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT

He is just so smarmy and icky.

If this were true, why would he have ever needed to ask his rich-all-her-life wife about the issues that matter to women? You know that if these people really existed he would be parading them around like Ann's dressage horses.

[GoCubsGo]

47. Sure. And, I'm the Queen of Sheba.

Everything's all "private" and "off the record". Mighty convenient...

[nolabear]

48. Oh Puh-LEEZ. There ARE no secrets these days. They'd be on The Today Show in 5 minutes.

I'm beginning to think he's

[siligut]

49. Probably thinking about when he was a Bishop in the Mormon church

And just using that experience to believe he is in touch with the non-rich.

[AtheistCrusader]

50. PROBABLY true to some degree.

He is a Mormon. Could easily be a component of that.

Not likely a part of his regular worship, temples and church meetinghouses are very status-oriented, you get assigned seating, and a certain number of seats based on contribution, but the church does get people together to talk regularly.

So it is possible poor Mormons have access to him through the church. However, 'poor' by his definition (and by Mormon social strata) is likely not what you and I would consider poor.



And that's about the extent of all the nice things I have to say about it right there.

[cali]

52. bullshit. the campaign won't reveal what states he met these "regular" people in or when

or anything else. It would be damned hard to keep such meeting secret.

[AtheistCrusader]

76. Not if it was through the church, it wouldn't.

I just looked, I see no media coverage of him at temple. It's not like a church, you don't just walk in and sit wherever. I am giving the benefit of the doubt only, because the church is quite secretive on these things. It is technically possible to accomplish it.

This could also be a calculated setup for the media, to gain mittens some sympathetic press. If he's attacked for saying this, and then some families 'come forward on their own' with stories of meeting him, could gain him some sympathy for 'unfair media attacks'.

I'd be cautious with this one.

[jmowreader]

51. "Regular families" = anyone earning between $1 and $5 million per year, right?

I was gonna say he talks to them to figure out how much worse it has to get for them before he gets to buy their houses and evict them, but that wouldn't be the Christ-like thing to do, now would it? (That Senator Franken's Supply Side Jesus is a squishy liberal compared to anyone currently in the GOP is beside the point...)

[SmileyRose]

53. I believe him

Of course his idea of "regular family" is

the Lloyd Blankfein family
the Christine Whitman family
the Ken Lewis family
the Tony Heyward family
the Koch family

[LeftyMom]

54. He's probably thinking about when he was a Bishop and got to grill people on their tithing.

[riderinthestorm]

58. And their family planning

http://jezebel.com/5875237/compassionate-mitt-romney-told-unmarried-woman-shed-go-to-hell-if-she-kept-her-baby

[HughBeaumont]

57. Herein lies the problem with this . . .

. . . even if he IS telling the truth, what exactly is RMoney going to surmise from these meetings but "It's Obama's Fault"?

There's no atomic chance on Earth that he's going to be objective about, or come to any realistic conclusion on why they're struggling. Never mind that the real reasons have much to do with 31 years of a flat real-dollar wage trying to keep up with a never-decreasing cost of living and speculation-driven boom/bubble/spectacular crash economic shocks taking the place of boring profit/person/socially balanced capitalism. He doesn't see that because he's just not wired to. He's only wired to point fingers like an MBA would, even when there's no obvious target.

We saw the horrendous results of an MBA President running America like a top-heavy business.

[renate]

83. I think you're exactly right

Even if he IS meeting with regular families in secret --which he isn't--like any member of the GOP he would never change his opinion or policies as a result of what he hears. It would be like listening to Charlie Brown's teacher: wa wa wa wa wa.

I think what you suggested about MBAs is very interesting and I'd never thought before about how they're trained to maximize profit, not to improve life for the people who do the work, but I think that is a really key point.

[alittlelark]

59. Sociopaths lie about anything and everything.

This story.......

[Initech]

60. Yeah and I'm the prime minister of Narnia.

Mitt if you really want to live like us - try living on $12.00/hr with creditors and debt checkers breathing down your neck. Then we'll talk - until then fuck off and go build another car elevator in your sixteenth mansion.

[movingviolation]

110. We need a facebook style "like" button.

You take the words right out of my brain!

[Ikonoklast]

61. "As I was attempting to converse with one of the Common Folk about his apparent..."

"....lack of social graces, proper grooming habits, ignorance of the grace and majesty of the Missouri Foxtrotter, along with his distinct lack of inherited wealth and proper upbringing, he seemingly continuously and purposely confused me with some Chinese chap, let me remember this correctly, I believe he thought I was some fellow whose last name was 'You'."

[mac56]

62. ROFL!

[Whisp]

70. :D

haha!

[gateley]

64. Well, he hasn't LEARNED a fucking thing. nt

[coalition_unwilling]

66. Reminds me of Nixon's so-called 'secret plan' to end the

war in Vietnam.

Turns out that plan, such as it was, was to end the war in Vietnam by expanding it to Cambodia and Laos without congressional approval. Who'd a thunk?

[krispos42]

71. Hmmmm... and I wonder who picks the anonymous interviewees

His staffers, which has an agenda?

[tooeyeten]

73. Not a clue

he meets with families because he doesn't have a clue was "struggle" means, whereas Obama grew up with his mother struggling.

[Bossy Monkey]

74. "You can't see it because my magic underwear makes me invisible!" n/t

[santamargarita]

77. I wonder if this job-killing asshole believes anything he says?

[Iggo]

80. Of course not.

He thinks you and I believe it.

He's a rich asshole like any other rich asshole.

He's been told he's smarter than us. And he believes that.

He's been told he's better than us. And he believes that.

And THAT's what's insulting. And THAT's what he doesn't get.

He'll never get it.

They never do.

[Capt. Obvious]

78. I guess he hears from these families that

their number 1 concern is outlawing abortion.

That and lowering taxes for people like Mitt.

[Iggo]

79. "I have secret friends who are poor. You don't know!"

And this guy wants to be president?

[valerief]

81. OMG, this claim is hilarious! And preposterous!

[goclark]

82. He talks to " The Hired Help"

and plays nice.

May ask them how they are doing and that is it.

Or, " Can you go to the store and get me some cream for my coffee?"

[Rex]

85. Fuck Mr. Silverspoon.

NT.

[Auntie Bush]

86. I heard that Romney meets with aliens every Sunday morning...

but I'm not telling you whom or when. Just gotta believe me!

[cstanleytech]

88. Maybe its the Manson family? Would explain a few things.

[thucythucy]

89. I meet secretly with Romney aides and staffers

and they tell me their candidate is a compulsive liar who will say anything to get himself elected.

I can't give you any details though, 'cause I like to keep these conversations "off the record."

[progressivebydesign]

90. Yeah..... riiiiight. I've SEEN him with 'ordinary' people.

He gets the vapors if anyone touches him, or forces him to make small talk. It'd be like watching Niles Crane at a tailgating party in Alabama.

Romney cannot relate to average folks.. we've seen the videos. We've seen the painful "who let the dogs out?' video, and later when he tries to relate to a young woman who is a princess in the parade, telling her she has "beautiful gloves." wtf? Then we have him insulting the local bakery who donated cookies for his photo op (talking to REAL people,) by saying that they looked suspect, and were probably bought at 7-11.

Sorry.. that dude probably doesn't even talk to his numerous domestic staff around the Country.

[L. Coyote]

91. "I know some people are poor. I've met several of them secretly." ROFLMAO

Someone tell this guy to just remove the spoon ....

[liam_laddie]

100. "Regularly" = bi-annually at best.

That guy is the MOST outta touch human (?) being I've ever heard of...a very sick person.

[Paulie]

92. I got it! He sits down with regular people

It's the chauffeur! He sits, he tells him where to drive, listens to the "yes Sir" and there ya go, talks to regular people in private. Since he doesn't know the drivers name, he can't tell who he spoke to.

Rmoney, the pants on fire POS.

[LoisB]

93. What's a "regular" family?

Stay-at-home mom, working dad, 2.5 children, Spot, a station wagon and a white picket fence?
Methinks Mittens got his idea of a "regular" family from watching Ozzie and Harriet (on the nights Davy Crockett wasn't on).

[Tikki]

95. Why secretly? Most would be interested in what the conversations were all about.

Ole Mitty, he's a guy on the sly, I suppose.


Tikki

[Ilsa]

96. At his 2nd inauguration, I hope Pres. Obama

remembers to thank RMoney's campaign chiefs, Mo, Larry, and Curly, for their hard work in helping others perceive Mittens the way we perceive him to be today.

[ejbr]

97. Ok...if we can't know who they are...

and we can't know what was said, let's just pretend these meeting never happened.

[spanone]

98. is that regular folks or folks that are regular?

[L. Coyote]

112. ROFLMAO

[eppur_se_muova]

99. So ... without this "help", he'd be even MORE clueless ?

I have a pretty good imagination, but I can't imagine that being possible.

[SoCalDem]

101. If true, not surprising

He's a secretive guy:

secret IRS forms
secret bank accounts
secretive religious life
likes to "discuss" things in a quiet room
removed the government hard drives as he exited his governorship..

[Ilsa]

102. Regular people are embarrassed to be associated with Fuckwad Moneybags. nt

[truth2power]

103. So....he admits to how pervasive are the economic struggles in this country...

[tclambert]

105. "Greetings, Regular Human 1 and Regular Human 2, . . .

My research staff informs me you constitute a regular family. Heh, heh. Do you consume food and/or beverages as do I and my wife unit? Heh. Oh, I note you are breathing. Does not this planet's atmosphere contain just the right amount of oxygen? Do you not also think that Obama is as great a threat to freedom as Adolf Hitler, Attila the Hun, and Ming the Merciless? Oh, no, I was joking. Heh, heh. I'm sure both of you regular humans knows that Ming the Merciless is a loyal Republican."

[Arkansas Granny]

106. I'm a little bit late posting in this thread, but my bullshit meter when totally out of control

and I've been trying to track down the pieces that were scattered over a three county area when it exploded.

Mitt needs to admit to himself and to the public that he has no awareness of how most people live in the US or the problems they face on a day to day basis. Just come clean, Mitt. You don't know and you don't care.

[Historic NY]

107. Willard define "regular family".

[goclark]

108. Give us a break R$$$$$

We are much to smart for you to even try to fool us with that mess.

Yep, the "talks" are off the record ~ he is an idiot.

[CatWoman]

109. i've seen some of those meetings

and they did not go well....