She struck me as shallow, when was she without wealth, power and privilege, as a teen she had the Governor himself personally do her conversion training, a year later he was running for President>
Her cavalier attitude about extraordinary wealth, looks like she is separated from reality, not as though she was sincere and down to earth.
It was another Romney-like gaffe, revealing an inability to relate to normal people.
One thing about the Bushes, they can mix and talk with the working man, and even live, drink, and serve with him in the military.
Yeah, it really has nothing to do with how much money they have. It’s the fact that they are clearly snobs about it. They view themselves as being in a different, superior class to the rest of us “little people.” And that inevitably leads to them putting in socialist policies to help prop up the poor, downtrodden, helpless folk who they look down on.
I know some people who would be considered extraordinarily wealthy and I never got the idea that they ran around thinking how rich they are....they have the same problems as the rest of us, including health problems - the great equalizer.
I don’t really get why you think she’s shallow - I’d say she’s been lucky. Who would turn it down?
What the heck does “poor in spirit” have to do with wealth? I have always hated that line of thought.
And I would HOPE that she meant “And yes I know we have more money than I know what to do with. And while I enjoy nice things, I am also very frugal in other areas and try not to be wasteful. I still like to mow my own lawn and putz around in the garden, and my attitude is similar to when we were newlyweds just making do.”
Although I guess I am projecting my parents and some of their friends. It might be hard to say that if you are Mrs. Romney with the hired help, and three homes valued at almost $20 million.