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cali

(114,904 posts)
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 05:15 AM Jul 2012

Romney: The Rebulican party "is a party focused on helping the poor"

Romney Says GOP’s 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.

“We’re accused, by the way — in our party — of being the party of the rich,” Romney said. “And it’s an awful moniker, because that’s just not true. We’re the party of people who want to get rich. And we’re 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 don’t have to become poor,” Romney said. “And we know what it takes to keep people from becoming poor.”

This was Romney’s second fundraiser of the day, his first in Louisiana raising at least $2 million, bringing the campaign’s tally for the day to $3.7 million.

Romney himself seemed taken aback by the night’s success, which a campaign aide said a finance analyst had determined was the single largest political fundraising event in Mississippi’s 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/

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Romney: The Rebulican party "is a party focused on helping the poor" (Original Post) cali Jul 2012 OP
Oh no, not the party of the rich dballance Jul 2012 #1
I remember a study released 6-9 months ago chollybocker Jul 2012 #2
I just read that article. Punkingal Jul 2012 #3
No, I don't think so. cali Jul 2012 #4
The Republican Party is here to serve man! Tanuki Jul 2012 #5
. baldguy Jul 2012 #14
The real Republican Party aranmore Jul 2012 #45
I agreed... your last paragraph is perfect. progressivebydesign Jul 2012 #49
The poor are helped by Republican policies. Holy Shit. HughBeaumont Jul 2012 #6
Goodness. Who writes his jokes? aquart Jul 2012 #7
Mallard Fillmore JHB Jul 2012 #8
Well, no wonder then pinboy3niner Jul 2012 #11
A lame duck JHB Jul 2012 #13
$3.7 million is a success???? Skidmore Jul 2012 #9
Excuse me... kentuck Jul 2012 #10
Knowing how to keep people from becoming poor, and keeping people from becoming poor.... DCKit Jul 2012 #12
Help them do what??? C_U_L8R Jul 2012 #15
Help them divest themselves of every annabanana Jul 2012 #17
The Republican Party has been very successful with this big lie... kentuck Jul 2012 #16
the big deception aranmore Jul 2012 #41
Hmmm.... will rich elites give record-breaking sums of cash to a candidate that... krispos42 Jul 2012 #18
+1 Johonny Jul 2012 #44
helping the poor to die early- n/t wilt the stilt Jul 2012 #19
bingo n/t 2pooped2pop Jul 2012 #20
Helping the poor get poorer. Quantess Jul 2012 #21
Helping the poor...in other countries get jobs...nt joeybee12 Jul 2012 #22
Who is he suppose to be fooling? Ganja Ninja Jul 2012 #23
At this country club fundraiser, his audience may have believed him ... surrealAmerican Jul 2012 #25
Of course they are. GoCubsGo Jul 2012 #24
Probably meant the pour dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #26
dude is raising money at places I would get billyclubbed by armed guards if I walked into tjwash Jul 2012 #27
Republicans want to help the poor? OMG....it's enough to make your head explode. nt raccoon Jul 2012 #28
There are no poor, Mitts says, they are just retroactively living their days before they became rich part man all 86 Jul 2012 #29
Nothing like a good belly laugh to start the day off madokie Jul 2012 #30
ROFL catbyte Jul 2012 #31
wow. can I get some of whatever he is taking??? nt bowens43 Jul 2012 #32
Either he's been posessed by an alien life form davidpdx Jul 2012 #33
Well duh. Arkana Jul 2012 #34
What? treestar Jul 2012 #35
"We help the poor every day by hiring them to cut our lawns or caddie our clubs...we care!" WI_DEM Jul 2012 #36
"Why don't they just sell off some stocks, for pete's sake??!?" bullwinkle428 Jul 2012 #37
The Rebulican party "is a party focused on helping the poor away from their money" Xyzse Jul 2012 #38
YEAH, RIGHT.... AsahinaKimi Jul 2012 #39
Only in cloud cuckoo land which is where most Reeps live anyway. ananda Jul 2012 #40
Focused on helping the poor... hootinholler Jul 2012 #42
+1 Johonny Jul 2012 #43
"If they want more free stuff from government, tell them to go vote for the other guy." AtomicKitten Jul 2012 #46
The party of 'building' the poor. randome Jul 2012 #47
Republican mantra is to pull yourself up from your bootstraps Son of Gob Jul 2012 #48
Two word rebuttal for the Obama Campaign: RED STATES. progressivebydesign Jul 2012 #50
helping them what? CreekDog Jul 2012 #51
Damn, whatever they were smoking at that shindig must have really been good. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2012 #52
 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
1. Oh no, not the party of the rich
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 05:23 AM
Jul 2012

Fundraiser at a country club. Fundraiser in the Hamptons. No, they're just simple people.

chollybocker

(3,687 posts)
2. I remember a study released 6-9 months ago
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 05:31 AM
Jul 2012

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.

aranmore

(2 posts)
45. The real Republican Party
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 06:20 PM
Jul 2012

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.'

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
6. The poor are helped by Republican policies. Holy Shit.
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 05:52 AM
Jul 2012

Kind of like Cambodia was "helped" by Pol Pot.

Or, on a less-heavy-handed note, like Britain was "helped" by Margaret Thatcher.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
9. $3.7 million is a success????
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 06:04 AM
Jul 2012

I'm sure he's picked up 10 times that much from Adelson and the Koch brothers in one hour.

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
12. Knowing how to keep people from becoming poor, and keeping people from becoming poor....
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 06:15 AM
Jul 2012

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.

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
16. The Republican Party has been very successful with this big lie...
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 06:56 AM
Jul 2012

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)
41. the big deception
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 10:52 AM
Jul 2012

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)
18. Hmmm.... will rich elites give record-breaking sums of cash to a candidate that...
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 07:02 AM
Jul 2012

...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?








Ganja Ninja

(15,953 posts)
23. Who is he suppose to be fooling?
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 07:53 AM
Jul 2012

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)
25. At this country club fundraiser, his audience may have believed him ...
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 08:04 AM
Jul 2012

... because it's what they want to believe. Anywhere else, he'd have been laughed off the stage.

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
24. Of course they are.
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 07:59 AM
Jul 2012

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.

tjwash

(8,219 posts)
27. dude is raising money at places I would get billyclubbed by armed guards if I walked into
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 08:25 AM
Jul 2012

Yeah...he is just a regular guy. I wonder if the car elevators were big enough for his Bentley.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
30. Nothing like a good belly laugh to start the day off
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 08:36 AM
Jul 2012

and that is exactly what I got from reading that piece.
thanks

catbyte

(34,170 posts)
31. ROFL
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 08:49 AM
Jul 2012

MAO. HE actually said that with a straight face? Maybe HIS idea of poor--you know--the ones who only make $250K-$1M.



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davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
33. Either he's been posessed by an alien life form
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 08:58 AM
Jul 2012

or he's been eating some really good psychedelic mushrooms and is on a hard core trip.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
38. The Rebulican party "is a party focused on helping the poor away from their money"
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 09:45 AM
Jul 2012

If he meant that, then I can believe it.

Son of Gob

(1,502 posts)
48. Republican mantra is to pull yourself up from your bootstraps
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 07:34 PM
Jul 2012

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)
50. Two word rebuttal for the Obama Campaign: RED STATES.
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 07:39 PM
Jul 2012

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....

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