Mitt Romney Says Wife Drives 'A Couple Of Cadillacs' (VIDEO)

In another moment that could end up portraying him as out of touch with everyday Americans, Mitt Romney listed not two, not three, but four American-made cars he and his wife Ann own -- including "a couple of Cadillacs" that Ann drives.

"I like the fact that most of the cars I see are Detroit-made automobiles," Romney said during an economic policy address at Ford Field in Detroit on Friday. "I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup truck. Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs actually. I used to have a Dodge pickup truck, so I used to have all three covered."

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A Romney aide told reporters after the event that two Cadillacs driven by the candidate's wife are SRXs.

The luxury crossover retails new from from $35,485 to $54,525, according to the manufacturer's website -- mid-priced cars by industry standards.

This isn't the first time Romney has spoke about his family's Cadillac collection. CBS News reported on comments the Republican presidential hopeful made in Sept. 2011, during a tour of an Arizona Ford dealership in Sept. 2011.

"See, I'm a Detroit guy, so, you know, I only have domestics. I have a couple of Cadillacs, at two different houses. You know, small crossovers," Romney said.

 

 

Comments

[kiran1207]

11:34 AM on 02/26/2012

um good going mitt way to reach the middle class who have 6 cars like u.

[Pherdnut]

07:20 PM on 02/25/2012

Would he somehow be a more tolerable candidate if he made 40,000 a year and drove a 1995 Civic? I'm not really seeing a point here. He's running for POTUS not Shao Lin monk.

[jitlonas]

08:54 PM on 02/25/2012

Pherdnut, that is absolutely precious! I wish I could have said that. However, I'm not sure the Shaolin monastery would have accepted his application for apprenticeship.

[kiran1207]

11:35 AM on 02/26/2012

yes it would it's called working hard and pulling yourself up on your own and understanding the problems of a regular joe so to speak. it makes a difference.

[Pherdnut]

02:18 PM on 02/26/2012

No, it doesn't. Challenge him on obvious and demonstrable failures to understand those needs, not the fact that he's never had them himself. That's identity politics and it should be offensive to all of us after we put a weak-willed moron behind the wheel for 8 years in part because people liked his "folksiness."

[hernan1333]

06:22 PM on 02/25/2012

With all the cars that he and his wife own he can tout having turned the auto industry around

[sippewissett]

05:28 PM on 02/25/2012

Jeez. He did it again...and these are only the cars he's fessing up to -- because they're American-made (no thanks to him). Romney suffers from a gigantic case of foot-in-mouth disease. Imagine him as president, another Repug to embarass us around the world.

[1mmovable11]

04:19 PM on 02/25/2012

Oh jeez.....I am in the military and see every serviceman (most making under 40 grand a year) with a vehicle as expensive or even more expensive than the vehicles Mitt owns. For someone as wealthy as he, sounds like he is more frugal than he most definitely could be.

If people are going to discredit his qualifications for POTUS; please pick issues which are actually pertinent to politics....

[kiran1207]

11:37 AM on 02/26/2012

um do your friends have 6 cars? probably not

[1mmovable11]

08:28 PM on 02/26/2012

That is irrelevant. Irrelevant to what I said and irrelevant to Mitt's campaign and/or capacity/credentials to serve the Country.

Also, one of my points was that those I serve with (not necessarily friends) bit off more than they can chew with most of their vehicles.....Mitt hasn't. That's all.

[snesich]

03:20 PM on 02/25/2012

Oh, I got confused. When I saw this headline, I thought Romney was saying he had "a couple of wives"...you know, being Mormon and all...

Maybe I watched too much "Big Love" or something, who knows? Sorry, Willard.

[rubesbyu]

11:13 AM on 02/25/2012

Just so everyone knows - Romney's ideas as to what the auto industry needed to do were eventually done after they got the bailout money from the govt. They went through bankruptcy.

What people need to understand is that bankruptcy is a financial tool that allows companies to survive when needed. Not the best option by any means but a viable one.

Any person with financial know how knows that when you tell someone to declare a BK you aren't telling them to roll over and die (like the media says when he says Detroit needed to go through bankruptcy. That makes no sense as it is a very expensive process. It is business planning.

But so it's out there the companies eventually did exactly what he had proposed (bankruptcy as well as other items he had laid out).

So he was eventually validated but it wasn't covered by the media. They would rather have us talk about a wealthy gut driving two Cadillacs.

[HamdenRice]

12:21 PM on 02/25/2012

This is not really accurate. Yes, there is managed bankruptcy, and there is bankruptcy reorganization. Both are forms of financial restructuring in which some debts are wiped out and the capital structure changed. But there is also bankruptcy liquidation -- closing down the company and selling off the parts if there are any takers, to pay off the debts. Bankruptcy reorganization and managed bankruptcy require new capital investments and without these investments, that kind of company saving bankruptcy cannot happen.

The Detroit auto companies simply could not find new money in the private sector in 2008-2009 and they were facing bankruptcy liquidation within a very short time. The bailout was essentially the administration diverting TARP money to the auto companies so that a managed bankruptcy reorganization could take place.

Romney opposed and from his rhetoric still opposes the idea of the government coming in as bankruptcy reorganization capital of last resort for an industry that the economy simply could not exist without -- certainly not the economy of the mid west. If the auto industry had had to try managed bankruptcy reorganization without a federal bailout when absolutely no private money was forthcoming, that industry would have gone through bankruptcy liquidation and there would have been tens of millions of additional unemployed people in this country and especially in Michigan.

[rubesbyu]

06:15 PM on 02/25/2012

So you agree with the Wall Street Bailouts as well then?

Bottom line the plans that Romney laid out were eventually carried out. There was money available, there always is - maybe not at the terms people like but there is money.

I have only heard from users that there was no money available. I have not seen one legitimate source that states otherwise. I am not saying that that is not the case.

Someone show me and I will happily eat crow.

[ber6965]

11:09 AM on 02/25/2012

Romney is SeverelySociallyRetarded!!!

[chris hatala]

03:35 PM on 02/25/2012

Does he have aspergers yndrome?

[ber6965]

07:56 PM on 02/25/2012

His Behavior makes you wonder.........

[rubesbyu]

08:45 PM on 02/25/2012

No. But it seems that 95% of the posters on this story do.

[Madtek]

10:57 AM on 02/25/2012

That's nice Mitt...a lot of people out here in reality land don't even have homes much less four cars to brag about! And some people are forced to live in their cars...imagine that!

[martin2]

11:06 AM on 02/25/2012

Four cars are no big deal for a multi millionaire.
The big deal with Willard is that he is looking the send our troops to one more unnecessary war.

[orange county man]

10:53 AM on 02/25/2012

What a dumb apple! He has no idea that there is a nasty recession going on. He is so going to lose to Barry.

[Gestas]

10:42 AM on 02/25/2012

Willard, Willard..."A Couple of Cadillacs" ..Is that two or maybe you don't know how many...You are like J. McCain who didn't know how many houses he had....No question about it...The Republican Party is the Party of the Very Rich....The best one is how you avoided the Vietnam War by going to France as a Missionary...Yes, France.

[martin2]

10:53 AM on 02/25/2012

He has had a revelation directly from Hell.
No longer a missionary for peace but a pusher for war.
First the Iraqi war now the war against Iran.
This he supports as long as he or any of his sons do not have to go.

[CoronaDischarge]

11:01 AM on 02/25/2012

Romney has always been for war. He was FOR the Vietnam war too, even as he DODGED service through deferments and nepotism by going to France for the LDS. A stay that by his own admission was a disaster, because he saved no souls, and apparently not even his own.

[rubesbyu]

11:00 AM on 02/25/2012

So all the candidates are cowards (except Ron Paul)?

[martin2]

11:36 AM on 02/25/2012

Yes they are. If one is not willing to go to war or send one of ones kids to die for the cause but supports the war. One is a hypocrite.

[Gestas]

01:10 PM on 02/25/2012

Let's put it this way...He is the only one of the bunch that was eligible for the G.I. Bill..

[DeeFromTheD]

10:36 AM on 02/25/2012

Romney: "Ann drives the sparkling silver Caddy on Monday, the sapphrie blue Caddy on Tuesday, the onyx black Caddy on Wednesday, the snow white Caddy on Thursday, the bright gold Caddy on Friday, the candy apple red Caddy on Saturday, and they all rest on Sunday getting detailed".

[CoronaDischarge]

10:11 AM on 02/25/2012

Who are his handlers? They should be fired. Falling 64,000 seats short of filling up a 65,000 seat venue? And then letting their "man" still go through with it? What were they thinking to not have pulled the rip cord on that?

But even then, ... even then ... NOT to have told him that the line about tree height is just not the least bit intelligent, humorous, humanizing, etc. ... i.e. remove it from his programming. It fell flat before. It was the source of scorn and ridicule for days, and then, in what was billed as a signature moment, in a must win state - his home state - they let him repeat it? Perhaps there is some voting bloc of arborists in Michigan that they are appealing to, but whoever allowed him to redeliver that line should be looking for work elsewhere after such egregious malpractice.

I mean new gaffes, unscripted meanders to nowhere ... moments that take us back to the days of vintage Bush or Quayle ... these cannot be avoided with Romney any more than cat hair on the couch. But really and truly, his campaign needs to put an electric dog collar on the man and zap him when he starts to talk about trees, or things that are already so well known to be fodder for late night comedy.

People like this CANNOT be allowed to run the country.

[BacSi]

10:34 AM on 02/25/2012

Its a well funded experienced machine Mitt has behind him.

They are just not very good.

What he said shows him tone deaf-----again.

Where he said it shows the utter lameness of his staff.

I did some advance work for an experienced Dem turned Govt Dept head back in the day. He had a moderately important policy speech to give.

LOL-----I made 4 trips to the West Coast to check on the venue he would give the speech at and to drum up attendance.

"I want them hanging off the rafters when I speak on this" Is what he said.

And its what he got.

But then he knew a little about how the public sees an empty stadium.

Sadly for Mitt his people did not.

[MansionWhirleds]

01:35 PM on 02/27/2012

love it! f 'n' f.

[kimbanyc]

10:10 AM on 02/25/2012

I SAW THE AP REPORT YESTERDAY, THEY SET UP 1200 FOLDING CHAIRS, ON;Y HALF FILLED, FOR A " MAJOR POLICY " SPEECH..........

AND ALL WE GOT WAS MORE TREE HEIGHT STUFF

[Tricia W]

10:18 AM on 02/25/2012

Empty stadium. Empty speech. Empty suit.

[sarabono]

10:06 AM on 02/25/2012

Anyone notice they were ALL American Brand Cars made by the United Auto Workers ?

I for one like rich folks buying American. That sure is a lot better than Mercedes or Lexus, neither of which are made in America.

[leea928]

10:10 AM on 02/25/2012

Of course they are, he was giving that speech in Detroit. He thinks we have forgot that he is now bragging about buying cars from companies that he wanted to let die.

[kimbanyc]

10:13 AM on 02/25/2012

REPORTS ARE THE SRX IS MADE IN MEXICO

BUT HE DOES KEEP THEM IN HIS HOMES IN CA AND MA

TWO WELL KNOWN CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN STRONGHOLDS

[rubesbyu]

11:02 AM on 02/25/2012

How dare he live in CA and MA!