These are the people that have gone through the last 30 years of corporate takeovers and “right-sizing.”
Almost all of them have either been right-sized out of a job and into the unemployment line (or threatened with it).
When you cause someone personal pain (as corporate raiders like Romney/Bain have done over the last few decades), you’re not going to score many points with them by saying “it wasn’t personal, it was just good business.”
To people who had dedicated their lives to working their way up through a company’s ranks, only to find themselves at risk of losing their jobs—not because they have done anything wrong, but because the company was bought in a leveraged buyout—it doesn’t feel like just business. It feels personal—very personal.
It wouldn’t be surprising is a lot of that bottled up resentment was being turned towards Romney. An is, imho, one of the reasons why Romney can’t get past the 25% hump in GOP popularity.
Truly these elites have no common sense, it's all about them.