Romney defines ‘middle-income’ as between $200,000 and $250,000

[TroyD]

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, September 14, 7:23 AM

BOSTON — Mitt Romney is promising to reduce taxes on middle-income Americans.

But how does he define “middle-income”? The Republican presidential nominee defined it as income of $200,000 to $250,000 a year.

Romney commented during an interview broadcast Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

The Census Bureau reported this week that the median household income — the midpoint for the nation — is just over $50,000.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/romney-defines-middle-income-as-250k-and-below/2012/09/14/14b17e52-fe73-11e1-98c6-ec0a0a93f8eb_story.html

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

1. Is this his way of changing the subject....

from his abysmal stupidity on foreign policy to his abysmal stupidity on fiscal policy?

Mission Accomplished, Bonehead!

[CoffeeCat]

7. OMG...you are right.

Hi, I'm Mitt Romney and I just made a foreign-policy statement that was so craven and horrifying--that I will now
pivot to a statement on the economy--that will be equally craven and horrifying.

Holy frickin buckets. We couldn't have picked a better candidate to run against Obama. This man is a walking tornado of fail.

He just solidified the meme about himself--that he has been trying to shirk off for the past two years---that he's an elitist and that he's so wealthy and privileged that he has absolutely no understanding of what the lower 99.9 percent is about.

He just walked right into it and gave Obama a big win in the next news cycle.

I wonder what Romney's next move will be--to deflect from this blunder, "And now for my next trick! I, Mittens the Great will not swim naked in a tank filled with hungry sharks, with steaks strapped to my legs!"

[Drale]

2. OH MY GOD!!

Mittens has the WORST advisor's and fact people EVER!!

[Scuba]

3. Clueless clod.

[progressivebydesign]

4. Oh come on!! At what point does he just render himself unelectable?

Everything we've said about ROmney is true. He IS an out of touch, clueless, power hungry, idiot.

[hamsterjill]

5. Oh, absolutely!!

It's so apparent that it's almost comical.

Except that there are still hard-nosed Republicans who will vote for anyone rather than Obama. We cannot let up! I don't care what the polls show, what Mitt does - nothing should make us stop working hard to get Obama re-elected!

{And I know you didn't suggest that we should stop working in your post, so please don't take exception to my comment. I just feel the need to reinforce this (i.e., we can't get overconfident!) at every opportunity.}

[Iwasthere]

6. he IS unelectable untill ...

The machines magically flip the winner in ohio and fla ... still could happen unless we are ahead 15 or 20 points or even 10

[dkf]

8. Same as Obama. Why the shock?

• In a recent speech, President Barack Obama referred to the "middle class" 14 times, defining it as a family that makes up to $250,000 a year

http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/middle-class-is-fluid-term/article_7b6495c9-2036-5b5c-95e2-7457a57f6a95.html

[MnAttorney]

11. Lets not play rethug games

Romney said $200-$250 OR LESS, the same as President Obama. Romney is clearly being taken out of context. I think that Romney is a craven lying sack of shit with no empathy. We do not need to lower ourselves to his level, however, i.e. taking clear statements completely out of context, in order to win. Lets keep pointing out the NUMEROUS actual crazy statements and positions he takes.

[Sheepshank]

9. WELL.....he does want to be seen as supporting the middle income crowd

....apparently having millions of dollars makes one's definition of middle income a 'little off'.

Unfortunately, that would clearly put the rest of us in the 'poor' category, which of course he doesn't have to worry about since we have 'safety nets'.

[hvn_nbr_2]

10. Follow-up questions I'd like to hear

"So, Mr. Romney, what percentage of the jobs that you created at Bain were middle class by your definition, before you fired them? And what percentage of the Chinese workers that you replaced them with were middle class after you hired them?"

[tufnel]

12. Straight up - he's an asshole

How out of touch can this guy be?

[polichick]

13. People who make less than that don't exist in Rmoneyworld.

[LiberalFighter]

14. Romney said “No, middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less”

That statement makes no damn sense!

If one has income of $1 or $26,000 that is not middle income.

[theKed]

15. But...

What about all the disadvantaged poor, with only one Cadillac that they have to park at ground level!

Oh, Mittens. I am disappoint.

[Thrill]

16. Obama Campaign hasn't jumped on this yet?

[sakabatou]

17. As Dr. Cox said...

[SmittynMo]

18. With this idiot,

You have to cross question him on everything that comes out of his mouth.

IE: Mitt: It's raining outside.

Well Mitt, What's rain? What's outside? What's It's?

This guys is as dumb as a box of rocks.

[KamaAina]

19. The man makes Bush 41 ("What's a scanner?") look like a grassroots populist

[DemsUnited]

20. WP: "Romney defines ‘middle-income’ as $200,000 to $250,000 and less in annual income"

That's about how Obama defines it.

So as nice as it would be for Romney to have said between 200k - 250k period, it just ain't so.

But there are still plenty of actual Romney stupids to sink him

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. "I don't care what the Census Bureau says, my inner feelings tell me it's $200k to $250k"

"My mood tells me I need a second car elevator."