Posted on 06/16/2011 10:42:55 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Romney says he's 'also unemployed' By Michael O'Brien - 06/16/11 01:04 PM ET
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) risked looking as though he had a tin ear when telling out-of-work Floridians Thursday that he's also unemployed.
Romney, a Republican presidential candidate and a millionaire many times over, sought to empathize with voters in Tampa facing economic hardship.
"I'm also unemployed," he said, as reported by the New York Times.
And Democrats pounced, calling Romney out-of-touch for his remarks.
“Mitt Romney’s comments today at an event with unemployed Floridians that he’s ‘also unemployed’ is inappropriate and insensitive to the millions of Americans looking for work, said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. "This comment shows that Mitt Romney – a man who wants for nothing and whose only occupation for more than four years has been to run for President - is incredibly out of touch with what’s going on in our country and around the dinner tables of those who are out of work."
Romney's made jobs and the economy a central focus of his presidential campaign, and he had been seeking to soothe the Florida voters in a campaign stop there.
But, perhaps mindful of the knock against his campaign in 2008 -- that he was too polished and upper-crust -- Romney's taken strides to appear more in-touch during this bid for the Republican nomination. He's shed ties and driven around Fords to campaign stops, many of which are at diners and more blue-collar backdrops.
What, he can’t keep busy counting his money?
Not saying I’ll vote for Romney, but can’t a guy crack a joke anymore? I think everyone needs to lighten up.
Dogs ain't so fond of him either. When Mitt asked his Irish Setter where he wanted to ride on a vacation trip, the dog said 'Roof! Roof!' so that's where the dog went.
It wasn't a joke - Mitt seriously thought that unemployed people would feel empathy towards him.
But nice attempted at spinning away Mitt's stupidity.
Meh...they are all out of touch...Obama, Romney, etc.
Willard is less “unemployed” and more “unemployable”. He should retrain and find a job outside of politics...
What a stupid thing to say. Stupid.
With the lack of jobs and the way the economy is, Mitt made a blunder. Fantastically stupid.
... and our response, channeling Dick Cheney in the 2000 VP debate ... "We're going to help you stay there, Mitty."
Grabbing hold of Reagan, Lieberman declared Americans better off than they were pre-Clinton and tapped Cheney's oilman stint. "I know, Dick, that you're better off than you were 8 years ago too." Replied Cheney, "And I can tell you, Joe, that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it." Lieberman: "I can tell my wife is out there, she wants me to go out in the private sector." Cheney: "I'm going to try to help you do that, Joe." Score it for Cheney ...
“Hell will freeze over before I will vote for Willard.”
And absolutely no one will blame you.
And hopefully he’ll still be unemployed in Feb 2013.
Hey, I got my problems with Romney too but this article is just nonsense and worthy of a MSM anti-Palin screed (sweetened with an unhealthy dose of class envy too).
Well put. I'm almost giddy at how Newtie and Mitty, the supposed experienced slick (that they are!) veterans of political campaigns, are literally shooting themselves in both feet! For Mitt, this one comes right on the heels of this!:
Hey! Which one of you pinched my butt? Hehehe. Wanna twitter? [TotallyLooksLike.com]
It occurs to me this is one reason he has, like a kind of other-worldly political zombie, been able to stay in this race despite the utter lack of life for him in the grassroots: It’s his money. He is paying for his own political life-support. Stay connected to the power brokers, stay out there in the public view, but stay poorly defined on the issues, except on no-brainer issues like healthcare, oh, wait ....
Whatever Mitt. You’ve already passed the amount of money needed to live like normal people for the rest of your life without working.
Being unemployed means nothing to you.
Risked? I’d say he jumped right in and did it.
In isolation, perhaps. However, coming off yesterday's story of how he faked getting pinched in the rump by a waitress, it has the hallmarks of a pattern: clumsy attempts at populism by someone completely unsuited for it.
He needs to fire whatever idiot came up with this idea. If he's the one who came up with the idea, he needs to fire the advisers who let him run with it.
yep. i agree. he’s a joke now.
last week, he made a comment about he believed he was a good “fit” with the Tea Party, because he also believes in a smaller government...
i can admire him, for what he is. but when he tries to portray himself as an “ordinary” Tea Party type...
that’s just deceitful.
MA got its money’s worth from Gov. Romney:
...he declined a salary.
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