[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Why are you making up the bvogus charge that I am offering up a strawamn?

I offered up NO strawman.

Ann Romney said that MS has been her teacher. You quoted it. Period. So that backs up what I said: She did proffer her personal struggles that she has faced as evidence that she can empathize with people.

And it then leads to Mitt: Can he personally empathize with people?

Why did they let themselves get into this?

[kabar]

Read the transcript again real slow so your lips don't get tired. They were responding to a question. What should they have said?

Romney gives at least 10% of his earnings to the church and charities. He is a throwback to the days when men of character did not brag about their acts of charity, but did it quietly and anonomously in some cases. As Ann Romney said, this is ridiculous that they can't have empathy because they are financially secure.

Again, the Romneys did not bring this up. It was an attempt at a gotcha question by Gregory. Later in the interview Gregory again tried another gotcha question on Obamacare. What should the Romneys have said in response to Gregory's question?

[kabar]

GREGORY: …and to talk about your husband. And to talk about how he's connected to people in your lives and in-- in your family. There was something that caught my attention, I'm sure it caught yours from the keynote speaker of the Democratic convention, which is-- sort of went to this charge that somehow neither one of you are as empathetic about what's going on in the country to people who are out of work. And the line was from-- from Julian Castro, the mayor of San Antonio, “You just don't know how good you've had it.” How did that sit with you?