Obama Super PAC: Romney's Agenda For Wealthy Hurting Him With Poor

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Framing the vote on Super Tuesday, the Obama-allied super PAC Priorities USA Action is out with a memo, more or less treating Mitt Romney as the nominee. The document goes through the usual litany of Romney attacks, from the verbal gaffes to the conservative policy prescriptions.

But the memo also touches on a line that seems likely to be used throughout the general election campaign, should Romney, as expected, end up the nominee.

"Romney’s agenda for the wealthy is measurably hurting him with those who are not," it reads.

This has been the attack on Romney that Democrats have hammered home after exit polling has surfaced following every primary contest. And the notion that Romney's political fortunes are being buoyed mainly by the upper class -- while likely to be decried as "class warfare" by conservatives -- was also the line that several Ohio Democratic operatives stressed in interviews with The Huffington Post on Monday.

Priorities Memo

Comments

[XTC123]

10:42 PM on 03/06/2012

I hate the Democrats and Republicans they some much like each other it is all about power and dam what the American people want or need.

[XTC123]

10:36 PM on 03/06/2012

All this information from a Super Pac does anybody see a problem with this?

[elamatt]

01:27 PM on 03/06/2012

Romney will need more than the top 1%, or even the top 10%, to be elected POTUS. What has he even offered to improve the Middle Class? And, the poor don't even Show. Up. On. His. Radar. What alternate universe does he inhabit?

[appeallawy]

01:22 PM on 03/06/2012

No matter what the politician say the American political process is owned by the wealthy and the biggest perk of all is preferential treatment borne of preferential access coupled with functionally derisive taxes. Wall Street and the Banks and Big Industry are all on WELFARE with bailouts and subsidies. Why should the taxpayer subsidize a profit-making business to do business? Why should a person on public assistance or social security or unemployment be seen as a moocher when, as a class, the biggest handouts go to the rich, viz., Romney's tax rate.

[XTC123]

10:38 PM on 03/06/2012

You said it our whole system is brought and paid for by who has the most money!

[appeallawy]

09:27 AM on 03/07/2012

Romney just bought Ohio by outspending Santorum 4 to 1 to get 1% of the vote. Imagine if the playing field were level. Romney wouldn't even be in the game.

[VISO]

12:58 PM on 03/06/2012

Finally, let's get the Obama juggernaut going already.

[apathynot]

12:53 PM on 03/06/2012

In essence, a very small group of well organized, resourceful and loud people controlling the masses. That is the GOP. Time to break the spell.

[Bufford P Tusser]

12:22 PM on 03/06/2012

Not sure why a "SuperPac" would be needed to state the painfully obvious.

[stopnlisten]

02:47 PM on 03/06/2012

Because some GOP are slow....

[Bufford P Tusser]

03:02 PM on 03/06/2012

I know it's splitting hairs, but I would phrase it as "some GOP aren't slow"

[Coleoptera]

12:18 PM on 03/06/2012

Obama is wealthy...Romney is wealthy. There are different degrees of wealth. Reading between the lines it has nothing to do with wealth...it's all about ideology. Wealth will be used to confuse the voters in this election. The voters are easily swayed by lies and inuendo...most cannot or choose not to see through the smoke and mirrors.

[Bufford P Tusser]

12:26 PM on 03/06/2012

Obama = food stamps good for hungry Americans

mitt uns = tax cuts for the wealthy good

not sure your "different degrees of wealth" argument counters the point of the article.

[appeallawy]

01:25 PM on 03/06/2012

Nobody without megabuck is in politics today. It's a rich person's sport -- like NASCAR ownership or a Kentucky Derby Winner.

[bestoftimes1]

12:09 PM on 03/06/2012

Super PAC slams Super PAC and they both protect the Rich, only in America.

[doubtingdavid]

12:19 PM on 03/06/2012

And the lefties lap it up.

[rksnj67]

12:23 PM on 03/06/2012

As well as the righties...

[Bufford P Tusser]

12:27 PM on 03/06/2012

doubt it, david.

[hoperequired]

12:07 PM on 03/06/2012

Unlike the Democrats, his plans are for ALL classes of people equally. The Democrats are purely class baiting and race baiting to further their agenda.

[Barbara DeZan]

01:05 PM on 03/06/2012

My, your post begs so many questions....vague allegations, unfounded "information" and such.

So:

1. Whose "plan" is for all classes of people equally
2. What is "his" plan
3. Examples and sources that Dems "are purely class and race baiting"
4. What is the Dems "agenda" they are looking to "further".

See what I mean?

[TBinSD]

01:15 PM on 03/06/2012

Name one plan that is "for ALL classes of people equally".

[elamatt]

01:30 PM on 03/06/2012

Can't be done; but we already know that!

[le marc]

11:58 AM on 03/06/2012

You don't a long memo to get to the core of the GOTP agenda, a brief sentence will do: Push the wealthy further ahead, push the middle class and poor further behind. Each Presidential candidate just has a slightly different version on how to accomplish that "lofty" goal.

[scottishboy]

11:58 AM on 03/06/2012

Just another attack on the rich from Media Matters and HP. I'm shocked aren't you, this took me totally by surprise.

The Democratic party left me a long time ago. Grew up in a Democratic family. My dad a longshoreman, union member. He said more than on one occasion, never begrudge someone who is wealthy, they maybe your boss. If your employer is not rich, your job is not stable.
Taught me two things. I want to be rich so I can hire people and envy was not a good trait.

I’m poor again, money wise, but I’ve had two successful companies and employed many folks. I’m trying to do it one more time.

The attack on the rich is not how America became great.

[NoMoreClassWar]

12:00 PM on 03/06/2012

RIGHT on, my hard working Brother! The rich make America great by making themselfs great, and one day any of us can be that great. It's called HARD WORK, and RESPECT for the man who hired us.

[scottishboy]

12:11 PM on 03/06/2012

And guess what, they pay the lions share of taxes! They are trouble and we need to make everyone else poor. That is more equal you know.

[deepthicket]

01:15 PM on 03/06/2012

You just keep working hard for the man that hired you, and keep respecting him too, brother. And don't lose your respect for him when he outsources your job to a Chinese girl making $0.80 a day; that's just making him a richer, and therefore greater, American.

[doubtingdavid]

12:33 PM on 03/06/2012

Funny, you sound exactly like me. Grew up in a demoratic family going back generations and God help you if the neighbors find out you voted for a republican. I too have been a union member (big mistake) also been poor and homeless, today looking at a comfoprtable and wealthy retirement through flat out hard work, investing in myself and never taking a dime from the government teat. I've never begrudged anyone who is wealthy that got their by their own honest efforts. Those that have their hand in my wallet on the other hand....

[scottishboy]

01:12 PM on 03/06/2012

Our system is the best ever created. It will always have cheaters as every single economic system has. You can never fix that. Aspire, yes, fix no.

Stay the course and congratulations on your ability to overcome adversity.

[NoMoreClassWar]

11:56 AM on 03/06/2012

What part of Economics is it that the Left don't get?

No poor man ever gave me a job. The wealthy are the men who build things and discover things and hire people. They work and take risks and deserve to keep what they make and make even more. And when society rewards those who are better, smarter and harder working, they in turn create jobs, giving more of us the chance to work that hard and be that productive.

But what am I saying, Libs don't want to be better they just want to take take take from working men. Not for long. The 8 Years Of Mitt Romney are coming.

[Hare]

12:02 PM on 03/06/2012

Your first paragraph is all nice and good, what you do not get is the part where the super rich accomplish those things by stepping on the rest of us, by squashing us, grinding us and throwing us into the cold night not even with a blanket. Have your wealth but do not steal from me in order to continue living your fantasy life.

[rksnj67]

12:25 PM on 03/06/2012

So far they haven't created those jobs, except in China.

[mcnallysan5]

01:35 PM on 03/06/2012

Your right. Big big business wants people living in the USA to work for near slave wages.

[Jeremy Arthur Vandelay]

11:50 AM on 03/06/2012

Please. Obama's policies vs. Romney's are about as different as the Hangover and the Hangover Pt. II

[rksnj67]

12:26 PM on 03/06/2012

People on the right and left fail to see this.

[Viper]

11:33 AM on 03/06/2012

Newts One Good Idea….

He once suggested that we look at what Germany with just a population of 82 million is doing, given it leads us in MFG/Exports and has high wages.

He then went silent beucase there was no free markets!

Here is why, because Germany/rest of world :
1. Has national industrialization plan like all other countries. Repubs AGAINST.
2. Has export Rebates of 19%,like all other countries. Repubs AGAINST.
3. Has cheaper National healthcare, not in cost of goods made. REPUBs Against.
4. Has stronger/larger Unions, 4 week min vacations, shorter work weeks, anti-outsourcing regs. Repubs AGAINST .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJp4479QaSI&feature=youtu.be
5. Has Unions on company Boards, interest free loans to MFGs. Repubs AGAINST.
6. Has 100% higher Min wages. Repubs AGAINST.
7. Spends 3 times as much on Infrastructure. Repubs AGAINST.
8. Spends very little on defense. Repubs Against.
9. Has more/stricter regulations centrally administered. Repubs AGAINST.
10. A leader in wind/solar energy. Repubs AGAINST.
11. A Leader in HighSpeed rail. Repubs Against.
12. Has earlier retirement age/higher benefits/4wk min vacations. REPUBS AGAINST.
13. Has centralized education, not thousands of local school boards fighting over evolution/Christian myths. For science/facts/history. REPUBS AGAINST.
14. Has paid for/affordable College. Repubs AGAINST.

Repubs were for insurance mandates till 2009, for Cap and trade acknowledging global warming, Deficit commission, P/R tax cuts till they were AGAINST.
!

[George From NYC]

12:32 PM on 03/06/2012

I wish I could Fav you fifty times.

Good post, wait for the sound of crickets from conservatives who have the opposite viewpoint with data to support their position.

[mcnallysan5]

01:43 PM on 03/06/2012

.

[stopnlisten]

02:50 PM on 03/06/2012

Careful...GOP doesn't like facts and figures. Want to get their attention? Lie a little bit.