What Everybody Is Thinking And No One Is Saying
“Governor Mormon?”! Really? It’s going to be a very ugly general. But I wonder if that has anything to do with this?
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Phelps on 05 Feb 2012 at 11:33 am #
And by “everybody”, you mean of course the left, who makes everything about identity politics.
Wasn’t “everybody” certain that Fox would do this first?
crystalf on 05 Feb 2012 at 1:07 pm #
Seriously! I was listening to this report on the radio while I was driving. There were 4 other people in the car & I was the only one to notice the slip. When I said “.. omg .. did you just hear that?! And he’s not being corrected!” The other people in the car just said .. yeah .. whatever .. like it was no big deal, not even worthy of being corrected. yep .. this is what it has come to ..
JLF9999 on 05 Feb 2012 at 5:54 pm #
Manufactured outrage? Maybe by some but I was genuinley put off by Mitt’s remarks and that was not manufactured. I hope I am not beating a dead horse here but I want to explain why I feel that way. I spent my working life among the poor, near poor and disenfranchised. When you are among these people you change your mind about the sense of rigthtous indignation exhibited by some. I saw that in Mitt when he made his comments. He wasn’t angry of course but there was a sense of having to “take care of the undeserving”. It is very common. I sensed that in Mitt by how easily he brushed this population aside as though thier plight was of thier own making and at some point he would graciously have to deal with them. It is typical of people who have never been there. This is not about welfare or using the safety net as a hammock. People who make those comments have no idea about the problems these people face or what life is like. Most never apply for welfare. Mitt dismissed the issue as though with proper management principles he could fix the problem. That kind of detachment shows me he has no idea what he is dealing with and has chosen to get into it and that makes me angry.
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Retrocon on 06 Feb 2012 at 11:51 am #
Certainly Romney’s wording could have been better selected, given that there is such an uproar, whether the outrage is manufactured or not — and I can appreciate we may interpret a person’s word through our own lens — but we ought to consider what it is Romney himself was intending to say. Are we really ready to believe Mitt Romney is so callous and detached that he doesn’t care about the poor?
In the same statement he similarly claimed he didn’t care about the rich either. Why isn’t everyone bashing Romney for not caring about the rich? Well, not caring about the rich can’t be used as a bashing point politically, but not caring about the poor can. So we all must admit that a good portion of the outrage is perpetuated because of the political juice that can be squeezed out.
So from Romney’s standpoint, what was he saying? Here’s my interpretation: Think of Romney the executive, whether in business or in turning around the Olympics, evaluating proposed expenditures in terms of “Need to Have” as opposed to just “Nice to Have”, setting priorities to focus on the most important things first. What do we need to do to get the country going again? He’s not so concerned about the rich — THEY WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. He’s not so concerned RIGHT NOW FROM A POLICY STANDPOINT about restructuring the government around the “poor” because, and this is key, THERE ARE POLICIES ALREADY IN PLACE TO CARE FOR THE POOR (although he indicated he could address problems in that regard at the time of his original statement). His priority to get the economy humming is to focus on the middle class.