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Romney Says GOPs Not Party of the Rich, But of Those Who Want to Be Rich
JACKSON, Miss. At a fundraiser at a country club in Mississippi this evening that was expected to raise a record-breaking $1.7 million, Mitt Romney defended the Republican Party against its reputation as the party of the rich explaining that really, it is a party focused on helping the poor.
Were accused, by the way in our party of being the party of the rich, Romney said. And its an awful moniker, because thats just not true. Were the party of people who want to get rich. And were also the party of people who want to care to help people from getting poor. We want to help the poor.
We also want to make sure people dont have to become poor, Romney said. And we know what it takes to keep people from becoming poor.
This was Romneys second fundraiser of the day, his first in Louisiana raising at least $2 million, bringing the campaigns tally for the day to $3.7 million.
Romney himself seemed taken aback by the nights success, which a campaign aide said a finance analyst had determined was the single largest political fundraising event in Mississippis history.
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/romney-says-gops-not-party-of-the-rich-but-of-those-who-want-to-be-rich/
dballance
(5,756 posts)Fundraiser at a country club. Fundraiser in the Hamptons. No, they're just simple people.
chollybocker
(3,687 posts)that said the middle class is less afraid of NOT becoming upper class as they ARE afraid of becoming lower class. This is a clearly an attempt by the GOP to play off those unfounded fears.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)He's delusional.
cali
(114,904 posts)I think he's a pathological liar.
Tanuki
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aranmore
(2 posts)Well, one can argue that religion was established ostensibly to 'serve man.' But the abuses of the Catholic Church (historically) and more recently confirms that such a characterization can be tricky and is the kind of 'feel good' boiler plate assertion that is really rather silly...and in my view baldly false, in the sense I think the writer is suggesting.
The Republican party until the 1920s and 1930s had very clear objectives. It was the party of liberal reform and activist 'big government,' specifically to advance reforms aiding the poor, women, and blacks. Thereafter it became a crusade to protect and advance the interests of the Banks, corporations and monopolies and their political surrogates at the state and federal level. This is what earlier (1890s)-early 20th-century sparked the Populists and Progressive reform movements like the New Nationalism and the New Freedom of president's Roosevelt and Wilson. Absent a catchy slogan Taft (another moderate-liberal Republican) even he attacked the super rich and corporatism of his day and was the true 'trust buster.'
There was a resurgence of right wing activism beginning in 1964 which gained momentum thru the presidency of Ronald Reagan. There was an orchestrated effort to demonize 'big government' and liberals certainly as it emerged in the New Frontier of JFK and LBJ's' Great Society.'
Republicans (as Democrats) serve their own interests. But Republicans and conservatives define those interests very differently that champion the private sector, wealth accumulation and the laisses faire state. Democrats by contrast serve the broader public interest and commonweal. That the two major parties switched their ideological positions in my view confirms that Democrats have positioned themselves in the right side of history and subscribe to values and principles that bast reflect 'the angels of our better nature.'
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)and welcome to DU!!
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Kind of like Cambodia was "helped" by Pol Pot.
Or, on a less-heavy-handed note, like Britain was "helped" by Margaret Thatcher.
aquart
(69,014 posts)JHB
(37,129 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)He's a quack.
JHB
(37,129 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)I'm sure he's picked up 10 times that much from Adelson and the Koch brothers in one hour.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)are two very different things.
Willard doesn't have much of a record on the latter: Bain Capital destroyed many lives via vulture capitalism - not to mention that U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for all the pension funds they bankrupted.
C_U_L8R
(44,892 posts)die ????
annabanana
(52,791 posts)last shred of anything they may still have!
kentuck
(110,950 posts)They have done little to nothing to help the poor or needy in this country. Look at the history from the Great Depression forward. They have been able to make enough people believe they are for the average working person to make them a credible national Party. But is all a big lie.
aranmore
(2 posts)Republicans (politically) and conservatives (ideologically) have very deftly exploited our 'Horatio Alger' mythology absolving
them from any social responsibility or accountability beyond their own narrow class interests. This has been true since the Gilded Age abuses of laissez faire capitalism and Progressive attempts to reverse the tide of corporatism...ironically begun by (moderate-liberal)) Republican Teddy Roosevelt. More than a 'big lie' (which it is) it is the big deception which Americans have in their ignorance and complacency have largely left unchallenged...until recently. The Great Recession has ripped apart that facade and our growing (and dramatically escalating inequality of wealth and condition only confirms the extent to which we have become an oligopoly of wealth, power and privilege.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)...is more likely to make them richer, or is more likely to make them pay higher wages, higher taxes, clean up their own messes, and prevent them from exploiting cheap foreign and domestic labor?
wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)Relieving the poor of what little money they have.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)Don't you just wish this man's nose would grow longer every time he tells a lie. By now he'd have to hire someone in China to wipe it for him.
surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)... because it's what they want to believe. Anywhere else, he'd have been laughed off the stage.
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)When everyone is poor, nobody can tell the difference. Meanwhile, they hide behind thewalls where of their gated communities, where the rest of us can't see them.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)ing of drinks.
tjwash
(8,219 posts)Yeah...he is just a regular guy. I wonder if the car elevators were big enough for his Bentley.
raccoon
(31,089 posts)part man all 86
(367 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)and that is exactly what I got from reading that piece.
thanks
MAO. HE actually said that with a straight face? Maybe HIS idea of poor--you know--the ones who only make $250K-$1M.
Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Taz, Nigel, and new baby brother Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Arent Luggage--HISS!
bowens43
(16,064 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)or he's been eating some really good psychedelic mushrooms and is on a hard core trip.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)They help the poor to serve and better the rich.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,626 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)If he meant that, then I can believe it.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)This ad comes to mind..
ananda
(28,782 posts)nt
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Stay poor. Focused like a fricking laser.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Son of Gob
(1,502 posts)This "We want to help the poor" shit is the opposite of their message. If anything this would make Republicans not want to vote for him. Not that it matters, I doubt any of these dipshits even pay attention to what this asshole says.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Anyone not listening to Rush, knows that the Red States are the most poverty stricken, highest welfare, lowest education, highest infant mortality, etc. etc. etc.
IF the republicans DO know how to make people rich, or keep people from being poor, than the sure the fuck haven't shared that with their REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS and State Senators....