The problem is ARROGANCE. Why build it now, in the middle of a campaign season? This is no different than President Obama taking vacation after vacation, often with huge numbers of travelers, and essentially telling the public that they can stuff it, if they don't approve.
If Mitt wants to build (or upgrade) a house in a still-nice area of California, how about waiting until AFTER THE ELECTION, when it won't be fodder for Obama and his bunch (assuming he gets the nomination)? Does he REALLY think he's got this all sowed up, already?
I could go on about how former President Bush was about to take a victory lap of Texas two days BEFORE the 2000 election, even as Algore was letting it all hang out and going for broke. Someone finally shook some sense into him (or his campaign) and told him that Zogby was showing him down in the popular vote (which ended up being the case). Bush instead campaigned in West Virginia and Tennessee and managed to win both by a squeaker...you just have to wonder about how much COMMON SENSE some of these campaigns have.
Whoops, meant to say NOT subsidizing it.
If I had his money, I would need a 6 level garage with elevator and a full time mechanic for the collection, Leno like of cars I would have.
This is stupidity, everyone of these bastards in politics live better than we do, who gives a rats ass. Jealousy is so not pretty.
WOW
his own pagan temple...
I hate to say it but it wouldn’t surprise me if the city planning board is making him install the car-lift to comply with some zoning ordinance.
This is California we’re talking about.
Quite frankly, I don’t even see Rats griping about what he has. one thing both sides agree upon ... Romney is an arrogant p**** who is as bad a serious candidate as I have ever seen. His presence is annoying. His haughtiness profound. His connection with simple folk non-existent. And his basic intellect wanting.
This is going to be one brutal election for us unless something changes.
Santorum 2012
Well if he became POTUS, then built it, he would be accused of being royally opulent. Better to build it as a private citizen.
Especially lately with class-envy articles like these popping up all over the place.
From reading this article, you would think that Republican candidates for president are supposed to be ashamed of their wealth and should pay penance by dressing in sackcloth, driving around in beat-up Chevrolets and living in trailer parks.
So I’m supposed to think that an outdoor shower is supposed to be some sort of extravagance at a beach house?
I’ve been to a lot of beach houses, most of them quite modest, and they all had outdoor showers. Who wants a bunch of kids tracking sand into the house? You just attach a shower head to an outside wall, install some sort of drain, and there you go. A hundred bucks ought to do it.
Wonder if he and Gore are neighbors? Wish he had twice that house.
Pray for America
Small garage, one of my best friends has a 5,000’ garage with 3 hoists, 3- 18’ overhead doors with an 200’ long 8’ wide storage platform for his car “toys”!
Maybe you can’t relate to Mitt’s actions. There are wealthy people who can relate to his lifestyle choices. There are also people who want to be wealthy who can relate to his lifestyle.
(wealthy+want to be wealthy) > everybody else
I’d rather have a President who loves cars than one who hates them.
As I understand it, our current president has his own house in Chicago...HEY! How was it he came about to buying that again?
He is building now because construction is cheap due to the destruction bt Obama regarding the economy.
I would think a 4 car garage in a 3600 sq foot home anywhere would be a tiny home for him.
Be glad he is making more shovel ready jobs by himself than Obama made all his years in the private sector.
I would have built a much fancier house if I had earned $250 Million.
You must be a Ron Paul fan.
Who cares what kind of house Mitt Romney is building with HIS OWN MONEY? If you want class envy, go somewhere else.
You must be a Ron Paul fan.
Who cares what kind of house Mitt Romney is building with HIS OWN MONEY? If you want class envy, go somewhere else.
They could have just said he hired an Architect
Gore had no chance of winning WV. I could have told the Bush campaign that after seeing two petitions in as many convenience stores. Likewise Charleton Heston wasted his time coming to WV.
BTW, neither Kerry nor Obama won WV.