Putting his liberal, Rockefeller Republican politics aside, I always admired George Romney personally. He was self-made in business and politics and seemed down-to-earth. The fact that he ate at McDonalds a lot is more evidence that he wasn’t some country club snob.
The message is not that he ate common food, but that he wanted it free.
He would have eaten anywhere if the millionaire corporate head issued the millionaire governor a personally signed, rich/powerful people don’t pay, card.
Regular people, working people, people who are in a recession don’t want to hear how the rich pamper and fawn over each other, and then how a greedy rich man will eat McDonalds just because it’s free and saves him pennies.
This story is so typical of Mitt, he may as well be a Martian, I bet $10,000.00 that average Americans flinch at this tale of the rich and powerful.