Mitt Romney's Empathy Problem, cont...

Feb 3rd, 2012
by F. Grey Parker

The fallout from Wednesday's gaffe continues to mount... particularly on the right.

As I noted shortly after this blew up, Romney seemed not only detached from the common citizen but also from his own party.

A growing chorus of conservative voices is afraid that Romney's pronouncements about "the very poor" are a sign that he's exactly the kind of "Massachusetts Liberal" Newt has been portraying for weeks.

Some of them are also saying, flat out, that Mitt's just an idiot.

Mitt Romney's Empathy Problem

Feb 1st, 2012

When I wrote about Bain Capital a few days ago, I stressed that one of Mitt Romney's main obstacles come November is the perception that he lacks empathy. Now, he has handed American voters one more reason to suspect he doesn't have a clue what it's like to be an ordinary citizen in this economy.


ABC reports:

"GOP front-runner Mitt Romney said this morning that he's not concerned about the plight of the country's very poor because there are social safety nets that take care of them.

"I'm in this race because I care about Americans," Romney told CNN's Soledad O'Brien this morning after his resounding victory in Florida on Tuesday. "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it."

Obviously, this has blown up in his face.