Romney Says GOP's 'Not Party of the Rich' But of 'Those Who Want to Be Rich'

[Punkingal]

Source: ABC OTUS News

JACKSON, Miss. - At a fundraiser at a country club in Mississippi this evening that was expected to raise a record-breaking $1.7 million, Mitt Romney defended the Republican Party against its reputation as the "party of the rich" explaining that really, it is a party focused on helping the poor.

"We're accused, by the way - in our party - of being the party of the rich," Romney said. "And it's an awful moniker, because that's just not true. We're the party of people who want to get rich. And we're also the party of people who want to care to help people from getting poor. We want to help the poor.

"We also want to make sure people don't have to become poor," Romney said. "And we know what it takes to keep people from becoming poor."

This was Romney's second fundraiser of the day, his first in Louisiana raising at least $2 million, bringing the campaign's tally for the day to $3.7 million.



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He knows what it takes to keep people from becoming poor!

He is beyond stupid.

[geckosfeet]

1. Amazing statements. Simply astounding. This man is out of touch. And what does he

consider poor btw? Income less than $1 million a year? Net worth less than $10 million? Or income below federal poverty guidelines?

Fact is mitt, there have always been poor people. It's not a disease and typically it's not their fault though it may be a lifestyle choice.

[The Wielding Truth]

19. Typical of a CONMAN to play on the greed and dreams of the foolish gambler.

[CTyankee]

57. I hear a lot of young men saying this. I tell them that people like Mitt Romney are in a club

and they don't want them in it. I say that they don't want me in it either, but at least I'm onto to them and their con game...

[Punkingal]

54. He said this ridiculous stuff while raising an obscene amount of money in one day..

$3.7 million

[JHB]

2. Mitt to Republican voters: You're a bunch of Wannabees

Photoshoppers, start your engines.

[longship]

3. It explains all those teabaggers sleeping on the couch in their parents' basement.

Too bad that they are so stupid that they haven't figured out how screwn they are with the Republicans.

[mucifer]

4. I think there is some truth to this. I think some people are ok with mittens breaking

all the rules because they believe they can be like him. Some people believe if he is president he can lead them to be rich greedy unethical slimebuckets just like him
They don't realize that he is rich because he steals their money.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. "we're also the party of people who want to care to help people from getting poor"

Uh huh,....you really WANT to care,...but,....what?

Ya need instructions?

[emmadoggy]

33. Exactly. nt

[nxylas]

6. By Romney's standards, this is smart politics

OK, it ain't 11-dimensional chess, but the Romney campaign has obviously glommed on to that John Steinbeck quote about the poor regarding themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. From their point of view, pandering to that sentiment is probably the only way they can secure more than 1% of the vote. However, Romney has revealed himself to be an out-of-touch elitist so often in the past that I fear* it is a case of too little, too, late.

*=Did I say fear? I meant hope.

[Brigid]

55. Or maybe they never heard of John Steinbeck.

I can't decide which would be worse.

[Vinca]

7. I can't think of a better way to go from poor to rich than to

pay a larger percentage of income in taxes, give up medical care, forget further education and go hungry when food stamps are taken away.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Do You Sincerely Want To Be Rich?

Bernard "Bernie" Cornfeld (Istanbul, 17 August 1927 – London, 27 February 1995) was a prominent businessman and international financier who sold investments in US mutual funds, and was tried and acquitted for orchestrating one of the most lucrative confidence games of his era.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Cornfeld

[Nay]

9. Mitt "knows what it takes to keep people from becoming poor"? Yeah, he does - not shipping all

their jobs overseas, for one. Not busting up profitable companies, for another. But he's not willing to go that far.

He'll let you sit in on a seminar on how to screw other people, tho.

[The Wielding Truth]

61. Reminds me of McCain's,"I know how to make jobs. I know how to get Bin Laden. I know how to

birth babies."

No wait that was Butterfly McQueen's character. Well, thank god, neither one was put in charge a the country. Now we have to make sure that other clueless character has no power over our country.

Let him go back to the disgustingly rich, pandering, dressage owning, factory raping, good life he love's so much.And let him take all the others! The RW fools with high school educations who think that the wealthy will give them good paying jobs with great benefits because it's what corporations do. And the Christ loving fools who leave Christ's words at the door when it comes to helping their fellow citizen. And the fiscal fools who really spout and believe that letting free enterprise make their own rules and practices and that will help the US economy like it did during the Bush years. The Republicans fools who still believe that off money to small business will cut the deficit.

[C_U_L8R]

10. That's been their scam

promise the poor dopes riches and scare them with all the cultural nonsense (gods guns gays etc).

The GOP is the truly the party of Suckers (and those who Suck).

[Jessy169]

34. I call it the "Amway mentality"

A number of years ago, an individual who I met through a friend invited me to an Amway convention. He talked up how great it is to own your own business, how through Amway I would be able to sell "my products" over the internet and through "distribution channels" that I set up on my own. Mildly intrigued, I went to the convention with him. There were thousands of people, all dressed in suits and "Sunday best" dresses. At the convention, the top dog got up to deliver his presentation. Mixed in with numerous tasteless religious and right-wing political sentiments, the top dog exhorted his army to "use their own products" -- basically, buy and consume Amway products. And he spent a good 20 minutes haranguing the audience that there was no way to achieve the wealth and success that he himself had achieved unless they buy and constantly listen to these cassette tapes which feature the top dog himself exhorting the audience members to -- buy and consume Amway products. I left that convention convinced that I had just witnessed a major, epic scam going on. Here were all the rich-man/woman wannabes, thousands of them, and the top dog pounding out the message that if they wanted to get rich too, then all they have to do is buy products FROM the top dog and listen to him for several hours daily explaining how to get rich. How to get rich? Buy his tapes which explain how to get rich, and buying his products, internalize the message, repeat constantly.

The Republicans have a herd mentality. They must somehow believe that there is a chance that they will get rich someday, if only they follow the Great Leader and do what he tells them to do. Just buy the Great Leader's products, listen to the Great Leader's speeches daily until you got them all memorized, never question his authority and yes, you too can one day be rich, just like him.

It is an epic scam.

[C_U_L8R]

35. Exactly

well said !

[harmonicon]

40. The difference is that Amway makes (or at least once made) good products.

With Republicans, there is no product. It's all about the system.

[agent46]

45. You're describing

You're describing a cult. Not coincidently, the right wing is also full of religious cultists who follow religious authority with the same docile single-mindedness.

[Punkingal]

46. Wow!

Never thought of Repubs in general as a cult, but that makes perfect sense.

[Tippy]

42. Very well stated...Do you think it will go over their heads?

[DCBob]

11. Sorta sounds like a TV preacher who says send me money and God will make you rich.

Pathetic.

[morningfog]

12. "[T]he party of people who want to care to help people." But, we just can't care.

Can't quite figure out how to care.

[underpants]

13. Romney says waiters ("the middle class") at fundraiser "aren't having a good year"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014168470

[underpants]

14. One of my first reads on DU was Aunti Pinko answering the question...

"If I vote Republican does that mean that I am rich?" or something like that. Nail-head.

[MrSlayer]

15. That's true. They ARE the party of those that think they're going to be rich.

But never will be. Not like that. The best you can hope for is a good, steady job that allows you to have the house, the car, a couple kids, a dog and a goddamn vacation every summer. But they've voted themselves right out of that. Voted us ALL out of that.

And why? Just so you can temporarily stop two guys from kissing at an altar rather than in an alley?

Or some equally ridiculous reason?

It makes no sense. You are voting for people that are indifferent to you, that prove time after time that they have only their own interests and the interest of their patrons at heart. Hah. What heart?

We're so fucked.

[Guitarzan]

21. It makes no sense to citizens who will actually THINK...

So.......think about it in this context: At least half of American "citizens" are the spoiled rotten, over indulged little woosies, you know....crybabies & serial complainers... that have grown (up?) into self absorbed, fat, lazy wannabe's. The right wing/repuke/corporate model was, is & will be based upon this one clear & indisputable FACT: corporate knows salesmanship, & half of America WANTS to be sold, Wants to be told how to think, act, speak & live. This is only a variation of the "Great Daddy in the Sky" meme, with the flock (their word) following with blind faith. How hard is it to sit back and let the "leaders", (pols., priests & pundits), do all the thinking? This is the "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" crowd, the "wannabe's" who, in the great American tradition, choose fantasy over truth, why?, because the Truth takes guts & a little effort. The Truth demands an ACTIVE citizenry, w/ open minds, moral fiber, reason, fairness, clarity, backbone & a bit of SACRIFICE for the greater good. These individuals ARE the flock, & ARE being lead, willingly, straight over the cliff, into the abyss, not because they don't know any better, but because they've sat back & have unquestionably "bought into" the hype, propaganda, programming from the last 35+ years. America....a not so great work of fiction/fantasy, brought to you by the very corporate institution(s) that We The People, (The REAL JOB CREATORS), have supported, & who have now, with a sizable number of the "citizenry", turned on their OWN. Back biting Bitches & Bastards, who when the going gets tough... bitch, moan, complain, show their true colors & shout their rallying cry: Hooray for "US"....& FUCK everyone else! And now that their own tactics are being used against their "candidate", they cry even louder, and I LOVE IT! Play fair?...tough shit! Lay off the tax returns & the Truth?...tough shit!, remember "purple heart band-aids", "Muslim terrorist born in Kenya", the first family being denigrated by...pick one! I could go on & on & on...all on here KNOW what I'm saying. Now...pass it on, never let up, never quit, & never surrender! OF, BY & FOR THE PEOPLE, so help Us........ US!!!

[liberal N proud]

16. It is the part of the rich and those who think they will be rich some day

It is the party of the ignorant.

[tanyev]

20. The party of the rich and those who know they are just one lottery ticket away from joining them.

[90-percent]

17. The Republican Party

It's based on the Amway Soap business model. A tiny portion manage to create their pyramid of exploitation of the lessers, but most end up with the bills for boxes of soap mildewing in their basements.

We can't all participate in the Republican dream of

I GOT MINE AND SCREW YOU. That leads to plutocracies and stuff, and boy are we going to have one hell of a plutocracy after November 2012. The corporate brainwashing propaganda will drive the well being of the bottom 99.9% off a cliff!

299,999.983 of us are making the bullets the remaining 17 elites will shoot us with!

-90% Jimmy

[SpaceChief]

18. Mitt BOASTING of his ability to send jobs overseas - last month

You just have to hear his smarmy voice yourself - 15 seconds only, no ads - on soundcloud [link:http://soundcloud.com/space-chief/romney-brags-about-offshoring|

[The Wizard]

22. More evidence

that Mitt will say anything. Woe to those who fall for his bullshit.

[lunatica]

23. Class warfare at its finest

We are the rich or the will be rich. You are poor and looking for handouts for us to give you.

[harun]

24. Party of the rich, snake oil salesman to those who believe they will be rich.

[florida08]

25. rofl

This is the most disingenuous statement I've seen yet. So much so it's laughable. Yes..that's why the disparity between the 1 and the 99% is so freaking large. Because they make sure the 1% will never be broke by sending tax cuts..very large ones..up the hill. People who want to get rich? I think most police and firemen along with teachers already know they won't be rich. You see it's their desire to serve not to strip the economy for their own capital greed. But that last one..

"And we know what it takes to keep people from becoming poor." Poor is anyone making under 5 million.

Of course they do..hire lobbyists and funnel corporate money to congressional crooks..outsource outsource outsource..and don't pay taxes by obtaining offshore bank accounts. Defund the middle class so they can't afford to contribute to the political process. They're so naive they'll believe anything. We can even turn them against each other.

Man..I feel like I just got whizzed on by a mutt.

[Jack Sprat]

39. Yes, I was thinking WTF.

He knows how to help them by taking over their company and putting them out of the job they had before he sold it off to China.

[NRaleighLiberal]

26. well in a way he is right - he forgot "....but will never be *ha ha ha*"

It is one of the most frustrating things about so many who vote against their best interests.

[Angry Dragon]

27. When did Willard become a stand up comic??

[Fresh_Start]

28. so its the party of drug dealers, thieves, and con men?

I rarely expect such honesty from a politician...but I think he's got this one right

[DinahMoeHum]

29. "If you want live like a Republican, vote for a Democrat"

- attributed to Harry Truman, Richard Gephardt, other Democrats, et.al.

[zellie]

30. He will say or do anything

the man is spineless.

[lastlib]

31. "...knows what it takes to keep people from becoming poor..."

from his long experience at Bain in making people poor!

How many people, thanks to his work at Bain, lost pensions that might have kept them out of poverty in retirement? How many people, thanks to his work at Bain, lost health insurance, only to suffer financially devastating illness that led them to poverty? How many people, thanks to his work at Bain, lost jobs and fell into poverty because of that loss?

Yes, he knows what it takes to keep people from becoming poor. And he spent a career making sure those things didn't fall into their hands.

[Punkingal]

52. Well said!

[sofa king]

32. Comedians: The Punchline Drout is OVER!

PALOOKAVILLE: With the backing of more money than it cost to put a man on the moon, the Romney campaign has already begun putting people back to work. Clowns don't even need exploding cigars to keep throngs of people laughing while reading Mitt Romney's speeches, while mimes cavort nearby, boxing themselves in.

"It's another comic Golden Age," said one mime who looked suspiciously like Stephen Colbert, off the record, "we haven't had it this easy since anyone named Bush." Gag gift and prop booth operator "Jon" tells The Pratfall that he's been sold out of fake vomit and fake dog poop since early June.

Bill Maher, in the meantime, had to be physically removed from HBO Studios after refusing to go on vacation as planned. "There is low-hanging fruit draped across the backs of the fish in that barrel," Maher shouted as his security detail spirited him away to Belize. "Come the f^$ on! It's the only thing I actually hunt!"

Nearby, writers sip mohitos in lawnchairs, brainstorming for the script of the already greenlighted "Dude, Where's My Car II: On The Romney Campaign Trail." Some of the producers still insist it should be a documentary.

Not everyone is optimistic. "It's too good to be true," says Carrot Top. "Most voters don't know how hard comedy really is. We can't rely on them to make the obvious choice, so I hope the Republicans try to steal it."

[randome]

48. LOL!

[treestar]

36. Simply wanting to be rich does not mean it's going to happen?

Rmoney knows that.

[NickB79]

37. Since only a vanishly small number ever become rich, does that make them

The party of failures?

[jxnmsdemguy65]

38. Mitt, you are waste of time...

F**k you for existing!

[harmonicon]

41. This is one of the most honest things I've ever heard a Republican say.

If Republicans had to rely on only the rich to vote for them, they wouldn't even get a few percent of the vote. They absolutely rely on suckering people into thinking they can be rich by voting for Republicans. For the party to exist, they need for people to want to be rich; they can't have people being content making a decent living doing work they enjoy in a field they're educated in.

[chowder66]

43. And there it is...the message that is most important. One of greed.

To any who may read this and buy into this GOP message and think "Being rich doesn't necessarily equate with greed". When your party, your organization, your church, your message is about wanting money/wealth/riches. Yes. Yes it is. Because you know damn well he is not talking about the richness of ones life and your fellow citizens lives. If that was the case then they would be understanding and supportive of the Democrats principles.

[Punkingal]

44. Exactly!

[chowder66]

53. Cheers! nt

[LongTomH]

47. I would think that "the people who want to be rich" are giving up their illusions!

After years of seeing their jobs outsourced, downsized, or otherwise, seeing their pension plans raided by the CEO, they should be giving up any illusion of reaching the rarified upper income levels they aspire to. I think part of the rage felt by the Tea Party types (who are mostly middle-aged to elderly) is the creeping realization that, they've been lied to, they've been screwed, blued and tattooed. Their retirement home may be a cardboard box in an alley.

Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and various cheap imitations thereof, have learned to harness that rage and direct it. "It's all the fault of them libruls, them soshulusts that you're not rich!"

Young people, by and large, have lost their illusions. They know their job prospects are shitty, and their college loans may outlast their careers (If they find a decent job to begin with!). That's why the younger generations are turning Democratic and why words like 'socialism' isn't a red flag for them like for their elders. And, of course, that's why GOP governors across the country are working to disqualify those young people, especially students, with voter ID laws.

[Punkingal]

50. Well said!

[The_Casual_Observer]

49. Politics of envy?

[bongbong]

51. Neither

It's the party of those who long for a shepherd to herd their meaningless, directionless lives.

[Odin2005]

56. Americans are brainwashed to think they will be rich someday.

Socialism never took root here because, as Steinbeck once said, people think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

[Evasporque]

58. "Because they are the people who we take money from so we can be richer..."

The middleclass republicans who think these people will allow them to become rich...I have a bridge to sell....

People like Romney have become rich by taking OPM....other peoples money....he didn't earn his fortune....he essentially stole it....legally.

[Yavin4]

59. Everyone Cannot Be Rich

It's impossible for everyone to be materially wealthy. You would have soaring rates of inflation and rapid depletion of natural resources in order to do it.

What most sane people want is economic security. They want to get to a point in their lives where lack of money is not their primary concern.

What is real wealth is the ability to spend the majority of your time as you want, not working endlessly to chase the next dollar.

I consider the ability to work only 10 months a year and have 2 months doing what I want to do as being wealthy.

[Deb]

60. Want, Want, Want....

from a Presidential wannabe. Yeah, thats my perception of the GOP too.

[Kadie]

62. He sounds like a late night infomercial....

You can be rich too! Just send me some money and I will tell you how.

No refunds, all sales are final. Results may vary. Many will enter, few will win. Send in $19.95 if you want me to be president, $39.95 if you don't.

blah blah blah...

[Punkingal]

64. LOL

[SammyWinstonJack]

63. He's Geedubya on steroids. Word salad-- a must for repug presidential candidates.

[Zyzafyx]

65. Shades of Juaquin Phoenix's character

in the movie Bob Roberts

[Enrique]

66. these are bad times for that message

that might resonate during boom times, but people these days have scaled down their aspirations, they just want security, they want steady work.

[Punkingal]

68. That's what Romney doesn't understand.

He was always financially secure.

[sad sally]

67. Sure, Mr. R Money...

[DCBob]

69. That's the same reason people go to casinos.

and almost eveyone ends up worse off than when they went in.