[WayneS]

I think Mitt Romney's remark about his lack of concern for the "very poor" was simply a verbal faux pas.

I sure he has no more lack of concern for the 'very poor' as he has for the 'regular' poor and the middle class...

[loveliberty2]

You are right that the remark didn't indicate a callousness to "the poor." What it did fail to do, however, was to take advantage of the opportunity he had to present a case for a truly conservative solution for helping 'the poor' and all other citizens.

And, to win the battle for the minds and hearts of citizens, the nominee needs to be someone whose quickness of mind and readiness of familiarity with founding principles can refuse to "class" people by "rich," "middle class," "poor," etc. That is Obama's playground. It is how the collectivists/redistributionists classify and divide us, and it is how they avoid accountability for providing real solutions in economic matters.

Romney, as Krauthammer has pointed out, seems "incapable" of responding with and explaining conservative ideas.

To restore America's greatness will require leaders who, like America's Founders, have thought through the ideas which made America great, for it is the restoration of those ideas to the American mind which can give freedom back to the citizens and wrest power from the hands of "rulers" who use "poverty" as their vote-getting mechanism.