Associated Press
Mitt Romney should probably be a little more aware of how remarks like these will appear to a mainstream audience.
"I know it seems like government doesn't like you," Mitt Romney told a group of about 900 business people Friday morning in a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Hotel here. "I love you."
The first part of the sentiment is itself pretty silly. America's private sector is doing quite well, with corporate profits soaring and the major Wall Street indexes climbing steadily in recent months.
But it's Romney's early Valentine's Day "I love you" that rankles. Consider the context: last week Romney told a national television audience, "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.... We will hear from the Democrat Party, the plight of the poor."
Two weeks prior, Romney said discussions about economic fairness should be forced into "quiet rooms." And shortly before that, Romney famously boasted, "I like being able to fire people."
He's "not concerned about the very poor," but Romney's willing to tell business leaders, "I love you"?
Given the larger economic anxieties, it's hard to imagine a presidential candidate with more tone-deaf instincts.
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Can Mitt Romney every say anything right? Mitt has turned into a gaffe machine, much to the dismay of GOP establishment types that have consistently pitched him as the "reasonable" and buttoned-up candidate. He's sticking his foot in his mouth more frequently than, dare I say, Newt Gingrich! His impassioned "I love you" to a room full of wealthy layoff-artists (his pals!) will go along on the highlight reel with "I like to fire people" and "I'm not concerned about the very poor." http://www.sunstateactivist.org
Un-f**king-believable! This guy is more tone-deaf than me! I hope he makes it to the general election. It will be so much fun to see him stuck with all this baggage!
Somewhere, someone is begging Frank Luntz to drop by.
Something very disturbing about Rmoney putting a chocolate heart under the pillows of wealthy CEOs.
Sounds like a Mitt on Business thing.Quick get Santorum!
So if corporations are people is Mitt in favor of Corporate to person marriage? Should BP be exempt from supplying or using contraceptives as it has sex with the gulf coast dwellers?
I joke on the outside but laugh on the inside.
In answer to your question, Mr. Campbell. No, BP did not wear a condom when it screwed the Gulf Coast Dwellers.
Just when I thought he couldn't do any worse. The man is hopeless and I'm loving it!
Yup, it is like the Gong Show and Our Gang rolled into one big circus tent.
I'm shocked - shocked, I tell you - that Ann Romney chooses to stay with Mitt after all of his sordid affairs with so many corporations.
Heck, he even boasts about a few of the offspring he's fathered with corporations and demonstrates no remorse for those he killed while f***ing around with them.
Mitt's Song: "A Modern One Percenter"
(Sung to the tune of "A modern Magor-General")
I am the very Model of a Modern One Percenter'
I've the talking points of the standard GOP'er
I have the backing of the current most financial
I quote the speeches from the very Reaganitional
I love the rich and poh pooh the poor
I follow the GOP attempt to push labor out the door
I am the very Model of a Modern One Percenter.
And you guys had no problem with John Kerry.
Hypocrits.
Romney has never been poor. It is obvious he has not fraternized much with those who are not wealthy. This is obvious from his total failure at connecting. He obviously doesn't understand the struggles of the middle and bottom classes. He doesn't understand why people are angry at corporations and the wealthy and believe the cards are stacked against them. Why? corporations are people too! This ignorance is obvious for all to see. I am glad this is the best the Republicans can do in the current wave of dissatisfaction with the wealth disparity.
But I'm still nervous. Racial issues are still a big mountain for Obama to overcome.
""Racial issues are still a big mountain for Obama to overcome"
Perhaps if the left would drop all racial issues, there wouldn't be one.
i.e. racial issues and class warfare is all Obama has to run on.
I don't mean political issues, I mean there are still many that can't accept a black man as president.
Mitt would have made a great twit on "Monty Python'. He thinks with his wallet, Newt with his little head and Rick the strict with his fear of female hormones.
Offered without commentary, The Money Song.
Mitt's funny now. But give him the keys to the nation and let's all see how funny he'll be then.
We must'nt forget all the corporate hands that will be up this puppet's backside, and vote likewise.
It's not issue of Mitt saying it but rather why are we suprised. He made his fortune on Wall st and to him it's like an extended family. He wants to go back to the bubble years and remove any regulation that hinders the Masters of the Universe from rising again. Forget the fact that the 1%'s (including him)wealth shot up 256% while the rest of us has to suffer with flat wages, to him that is the way it should be. The most unbelieveable part of this is that a portion of the middle class still thinks all this is ok. Talk about voting against your own self interest, or as P.T. Barnum said "there is a fool born every minute"
Good. We need someone that loves business. If business isn't doing well, this country isn't doing well.
Yeah, thank god Obama saved the auto industry huh.
According to profits and the stock market business is doing well, but the country as a whole is not because of unemployment. Business doing well does not translate to enough jobs for the United States anymore. This is the problem we need to overcome. We need to figure out how to have United States businesses to bring jobs back to the U S.
they have...GOP is blocking every attempt and will not even bring them to a vote...
1) Obama has taken more money from Wall Street than any candidate in US history. 2) Anyone care to put any of these "gaffes" in the context of the rest of the paragraph in which he was speaking? 3) Solyndra anyone?