A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. "I don't think the common person is getting it," she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. "Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them. "We've got the message," she added. "But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies -- everybody who's got the right to vote -- they don't understand what's going on. I just think if you're lower income -- one, you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact."Let's take a look at exactly WHAT the "common person" is NOT getting. They are not getting that if you are cramped for space in your garage you should just have a car elevator installed.
311 Dunemere Drive, La Jolla, CA: Mitt Romney, GOP presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor, Bought in 2008 for $12 million, Romney announced plans to tear down his current 3,000-square foot California beach house and rebuild an 11,000-square manse in its place -- but not until after the election season.Of course things are getting a little tough in this economy for Romney, he had to sell his ski lodge!
3853 Rising Star Lane, Park City, UT: In addition to his beach house, Romney owns a Boston, MA-area townhouse and a $10 million Wolfeboro, NH summer home. In 2009 he sold two others: a Belmont, MA house for $3.5 million and this Deer Valley ski lodge for $5.25 million.What else does the "common person" not understand? Why Horses of course!
Hey I get it you have to keep the wife happy, even if it ends up costing you a loss of $77000 in a year(way more than the average family makes in a year). When the stakes are so high in the dressage horse arena, you can see why Ann and Mitt Romney would sell a horse so heavily medicated that it was unable to perform. When your trying to support 5 million dollars plus houses and a dressage horse hobby, you can not afford to have horses dieing on you!
Ann Romney found herself briefly the subject of a lawsuit at whose core, according to court documents, was a heavily-medicated horse. Romney and her trainers sold the horse, Super Hit, in 2008 for $125,000. And Super Hit had what a prominent veterinarian described as a staggering quantity of drugs in its system at the time of its examination before being sold, according to a toxicology report that's part of the lawsuit over the horse's condition.
The lawsuit, which was mentioned in a New York Times story last month, was filed in 2010 by a woman in San Diego who had bought Super Hit from Romney and her trainers, Jan and Amy Ebeling. The woman, Catherine Norris, sued Romney for fraud after the horse allegedly proved physically incapable of performing as a dressage horse.
The case with Romney was settled last September and she is no longer involved in the lawsuit. According to a toxicology report provided to the horse's vet and testimony from a veterinarian, Dr. Steven Soule, included in the lawsuit, Super Hit had three sedative pain killers and one narcotic pain killer in her system when the horse was examined to check her condition pre-sale. The drugs were Butorphanol, Delomidine, Romifidine, and Xylatine. Soule, who has been the United States Equestrian Team veterinarian since 1978, writes, “In my 38 years of practice, I have never come across a drug screen such as this where the horse has been administered so many different medications at the same time.” The horse had a defect in its foot, and Norris's lawyers alleged that the Ebelings had drugged the horse in order to hide its condition.Another thing the "common person" does not get is how to travel with your pet!
Back in 1983, Romney was struggling to cram the kids and their luggage into the family station wagon for the drive to the Lake Huron shores, where his family still owns a cottage at Beach O’ Pines, a mostly American enclave. “Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family’s hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon’s roof rack,” the Globe wrote of Romney, then a 36-year-old management consultant with Boston-based Bain and Company.
Romney constructed a special windshield for the carrier, “to make the ride more comfortable for the dog.” The contraption apparently wasn’t much of a success, however, as Seamus soon began to suffer gastric issues from his windy perch atop the car.
Romney’s oldest boy, Tagg, noticed the first sign of trouble, according to the Globe piece. “Dad!” he yelled. “Gross!” A brown liquid was dripping down the back window of the station wagon. Romney calmly dealt with the problem amid his boys’ howls of disgust, pulling into a service station to hose down Seamus and the car.
He put the dog back in the crate and continued the drive to OntarioAnother thing the "common person" has a problem getting how to spontaneously rap!
The "common person" also needs to know how to drive a jet ski!
The "common person" could also use a lesson in pay to play politics!
Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm didn't wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he became one of Romney's top energy advisers in March. Just weeks after Hamm joined the Romney campaign, he gave $985,000 to a pro-Romney super PAC, according to campaign reports.The "common person" also needs to learn that teachers, fire fighters and police officers are a drag on society!
Romney made the comments in response to Obama’s presser today, at which the president claimed the “private sector is doing fine.” Per CNN: Romney said of Obama, “he wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”
Finally, the last and most important thing that the "common people" need to get. Forget the US bank and taxes...move your money offshore and never tell the truth about what your doing!
More than three decades later, as he tried to nail down the Republican nomination for president of the United States, Romney’s gray areas were again an issue when he repeatedly resisted calls to release more details of his net worth, his tax returns, and the large investments and assets held by him and his wife, Ann. Finally the other Republican candidates forced him to do so, but only highly selective disclosures were forthcoming.
Even so, these provided a lavish smorgasbord for Romney’s critics. Particularly jarring were the Romneys’ many offshore accounts. As Newt Gingrich put it during the primary season, “I don’t know of any American president who has had a Swiss bank account.” But Romney has, as well as other interests in such tax havens as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
To give but one example, there is a Bermuda-based entity called Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd., which has been described in securities filings as “a Bermuda corporation wholly owned by W. Mitt Romney.” It could be that Sankaty is an old vehicle with little importance, but Romney appears to have treated it rather carefully. He set it up in 1997, then transferred it to his wife’s newly created blind trust on January 1, 2003, the day before he was inaugurated as Massachusetts’s governor. The director and president of this entity is R. Bradford Malt, the trustee of the blind trust and Romney’s personal lawyer. Romney failed to list this entity on several financial disclosures, even though such a closely held entity would not qualify as an “excepted investment fund” that would not need to be on his disclosure forms. He finally included it on his 2010 tax return. Even after examining that return, we have no idea what is in this company, but it could be valuable, meaning that it is possible Romney’s wealth is even greater than previous estimates. While the Romneys’ spokespeople insist that the couple has paid all the taxes required by law, investments in tax havens such as Bermuda raise many questions, because they are in “jurisdictions where there is virtually no tax and virtually no compliance,” as one Miami-based offshore lawyer put it.
Yes the "common person" needs to understand that there is no one more common than Mitt Romney!
Sorry, can't resist. "When your* trying to support 5 million dollars plus houses and a dressage horse hobby..."
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This is why a lot of Republicans are going to hold their noses as they vote against their interests and for Mitt the Plutocrat.
DeleteThe truth is right there in front of them.
Another one- "move your money offshore and never tell the truth about what your (you're) doing"
The harder Mitt tries to be liked and seem as if he belongs among the "common man," the more odious he makes himself. He might almost be better off tooting "Hey, I'm a patrician, so elect me." At least that's more honest!
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I think many Republicans would happily vote for James O'Keefe; not so much Mitt. Maybe Mitt will etch a sketch himself into Pimp Daddy Mitt. Throw in some undercover exposes of coffee shops, lotto ticket sales outlets and American Apparel stores (un magic undergarments for non TBMs); and the scandalous truth about the opposition can be revealed on Pinterest!
DeleteThe next time some Teabagger starts going all birther on Obama we should demand that Romney's children all be DNA tested to verify they have the same mother. Perhaps he needs the new $11M mansion to house Anne's sister wives. This is just as valid a question as asking if Obama was born in Kenya.
ReplyDeleteRomney is someone trying to fit in to another culture entirely. He has trouble because it is not easy to do. He cannot tell what is considered "normal" to the average American because he has always had an entirely different lifestyle. It is like someone from Wisconsin trying to fit in in France. You are going to goof up.
DeleteAhh, yes and Obama is close to the common man? A heavy pot smoker/cocaine user, who jets all over the world at taxpayer expense, who has a wife does the same. And Obama, the person who is truly mentally ill with narcissism, is more to the common man?
ReplyDeleteNo, Romney is not the common man, nor is Obama. But hey, your jealousy just makes the whole world smarter, isn't it capper?
Do you hang out with the Prez doing drugs? Where do you get this garbage? The guy is not on drugs, it is pretty obvious.
DeleteI have a mild case of dysklexycia and the first time I read this my mind processed the letters Obama as Dubya. Twice!
DeleteAnd George W. jetted all over the world at taxpayer expense, as did his wife, was a heavy drinker (and who knows what else), was truly mentally ill with narcissism, took more vacation time than any president in history ....do I need to continue?
DeleteOr do you have a substantive point to make?
Dan, you moronic dumb ass! First of all, I didn't write the post, so why are you challenging me on it? Or is reading beyond your skill set.
DeleteSecondly, I wouldn't mind having a beer with Obama and I know he would be kind enough to have one with me. Romney wouldn't even look at anyone making less than seven digits a year.
Thanks for showing you really aren't too smart at all.
Let's do something about Citizens' United. A 75,000 dollar contribution is more than a years salary for most people. These people cannot have our best interests at heart, nor should they. They live in a different world. I consider a 75 dollar political contribution to be a lot.
ReplyDeleteThis corporations are people thing is all wrong and is undemocratic and unpatriotic.
Those who are wealthy should not be made to compete against their fellow citizens - regardless of your education level - old money is more treasured than new wealth. So as GOP honcho Mr Romney's top priority is utter repeal of estate tax, along with cutting his personal income tax.
ReplyDeleteThe one bonus of the Citizens United decision was the ripping of the thin veneer of fairness from American democracy and the expososure of the rapacious corruption underlying our politics. Will Americans passively accept this rotten state of affairs or revolt? I don't know, what's on TV?
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ReplyDeletei am fearful of the concept that the American electorate will indeed accept this vile state of affairs and elect Mittens, thereby destroying our American Republic and all the democracy that goes with it!
The common person doesn't get how to govern the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. One must charge those people for the services they use, not give those services away to those lazy people:
ReplyDeleteWillard then proposed a bill to charge blind residents of Massachusetts $10 per year for their annual Massachusetts Blind Resident Identification card.
Charging blind residents for being blind.
Ain't Willard clever?
Make those socialist lazy people who are dragging the whole country down the sewer and turning us into China pay their own darn way, for Pete's sake. Maybe they'll stop being blind once they have to pay for it.
The bill was tossed immediately by the Democratic majority legislature.
Then Willard quadrupled the Commonwealth gun registration fee through an executive order; A couple of months after he praised the NRA's important work.
He stands by whatever he said he supported if he said whatever it was that he said.
And again, the citizens didn't cheer. The common people, those people, ought to know that they're supposed to cheer the elite Governor.
Note to self: Send Mandatory Cheering Bill to the legislature.
By then, he abandoned the Commonwealth entirely and went west where he soon went to the polling place in Utah and voted even though his legal residence was still in Massachusetts. Or New Hampshire. Or Colorado.
Note to self: Voter fraud is rampant!
There, he begged for federal money to spend on that little bitty Olympic thing in the middle of nowhere. Then he delivered another truckload of money to that humongous tabernackley place where Willard gets more of that federal money to stay in his own pocket (for which he hires someone to walk behind him wearing his pants because he needs to wear his magic underwear while doing secrety rituals in that tabernacically place).
Then he called MI6 for no apparent reason.
There was no reason to visit Massachusetts again because the legislature was infested with those people, the Democrats, and those other people, and those women folk, and those foreigners, and those nail ladies, and those other people, anyway.
So he visited Massachusetts several times for no reason other than to sign papers and preside over board meetings as the CEO for a company he didn't work for any more but he did.
The next Massachusetts Governor was the Democrat, Deval Patrick, who won handily in Nov, 2006 and is now serving his second term as Governor.