Mitt to the 99 Percent: 'You're Wrong'

Mitt Romney pretty much lost it today with an apparent Occupy Wall Street protester, once again revealing a typically tone-deaf, 1960s "America: Love It or Leave It" mentality.

Romney was walking the rope line outside his headquarters in Charleston, S.C. on Thursday when a person off-camera asked, "What would you do to support the 99 percent seeing as how you're part of the 1 percent?" That's a fair question, but Romney's testy response suggests that he thinks folks who ask such things must support communist or dictatorial regimes in Cuba, North Korea, China etc.

He ends this diatribe saying, "America is right, and you're wrong." That's Mitt's answer for a simple question like "what would you do to support the 99 percent?" In other words, he's saying, "Don't you peasants bother me with such things."

 

 

 

 

 

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Comments

[mijjy]

12:22 PM on 01/23/2012

Wow, the hubris of this guy. I think Russia, & Putin would LOVE him the best - seems to be what he's looking for. Maybe HE'S the one who'd be better served going to China, etc. Methinks he dost protesteth TOO much!

[capitaldysfunction]

02:49 AM on 01/22/2012

Right wingers like Romney have been playing the same "I'm-a-patriot-you're not!" game since FDR. It's all part of the Republican class war games, deserving of an instant shouted response equally offensive.

[Ralphiec88]

07:33 PM on 01/21/2012

The question was a total gift to Romney. What better way to shore up his credentials with suspicious FOX acolytes than to publicly trash a supposed OWSer? Romney was correct, the question was naive class warfare stuff (face it, every recent president was at least wealthy if not a millionaire). A better question is: was the guy asking it from OWS or from the Romney campaign.

[Elizabeth BullDavie]

05:06 PM on 01/21/2012

Someone asks Romney a reasonable question and gives him an opportunity to make a powerful statement of support. Instead he seizes the moment to belittle the questioner and basically imply that all Americans are one and there are not different rules for the 99% vs. the 1%. He even says Obama is trying to be divisive, of all things. I am shocked by his ignorance and denial of a real issue; and as someone with a net worth of $200 million who effectively pays a tax rate of about 8%, the fact that he states that we are all in the same boat just shows how out-of-touch with reality he really is. Sad.

[Ralphiec88]

09:59 PM on 01/20/2012

Apparently we're supposed to read the article but not actually watch the video. Mitt's answer was quite detailed and had nothing to do with 'peasant'. That said, Mitt railing against 'dividing the country' after going after Huntsman for serving under a Democratic president is two-faced.

[Michelle List]

07:52 AM on 01/21/2012

THE QUESTION WAS:
"What would YOU do to support the 99 percent seeing as how you're part of the 1 percent?"

Nowhere did the questioner ask, say , or imply that he thought that China, Cuba, etal. were better. The implication was that another candidate might be better. Mr. Romney was being offered a chance to tell South Carolina voters how, or IF, he would represent the common person.

My take on his answer would be arrogantly, grudgingly, and with a bad attitude.

[artemrss]

06:12 PM on 01/19/2012

The more these Repubs say, the more people realize the road to a better America is absolutely not with them. THE divide is there plain to see, plain to feel, and very plain when one lives it. Those out of work have President Obama to thank for extending employment insurance so they can keep a roof over their heads and some food in their belly while they continue looking for work, those of the working poor who rely on food stamps to feed their children or themselves, know the Republican ticket would be disastrous.

It's difficult to comprehend the middle class and the working poor who agree with these ideas that somehow the country would be better off if we just walked past, just ignored hunger and poverty and bad luck in this country, that all our problems are because of the "drain" on the budget of "these" people. (Never mind, they are them, as well).

Keeping our people clothed, fed, and housed, will not bankrupt America. Please - we are not a 3rd world country, for heaven's sake. There are many reasons for our financial difficulties, and lost revenue is a very big part of it. The fixes are very simple and real, with a Romney and others like him paying less than 15% on their taxes while they pull in hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and those making less then $80,000, are paying 25%, something needs adjusting.

America is not broke, but our priorities are screwed

[Deschris]

05:32 PM on 01/19/2012

Folks this is just what we want a president that loses it, remember this when you vote.I'm not here to put money in your pockets,I like to fire people,Corporations are people too and $346,000 is nothing!!!

Obama 2012

[4 EYES]

10:15 PM on 01/19/2012

There's only ONE reason to vote for an (R) in the fall election...only one....8-)

[yogi199]

05:25 PM on 01/19/2012

How long are pending coments held up ?

[Robert SF]

03:24 PM on 01/21/2012

Until they're posted. There's really no particular pattern. So annoying.

[yogi199]

05:25 PM on 01/19/2012

Why do Politicians on Capital Hill get a free ride just for going to work just like every American in this Great Country. Congress has an 11 percent approval rating ? Capital Hill needs to live like us Americians so they understand what our needs are,and what is "important " to us. Congress lives in the clouds,they have zero idea what is imporant to us the people !

[4 EYES]

10:14 PM on 01/19/2012

Our Congresspersons are bought-and-paid-for by the 1% special interest groups...anything coming your way is just crumbs, or a prop-job to get you buy that they are doing SOMETHING for you. Just follow the money...but do it quickly - time is running out to stop them....8-)