2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMitt: 'Banks are people'. 'They feel the same things you do'.
Romney stands outside a Fannie Mae-foreclosed home to attack Newt. But he just cant help himself:-
"The banks arent bad people". People? Again!?
"Theyre feeling the same thing that youre feeling." (Um !!!) What? - With all that bailout money, Mitt?
Yes, he said it, and more - Wapo
LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came to ground zero of the housing crisis Tuesday to assail rival Newt Gingrich over his ties to the government-backed mortgage companies that helped make it worse, a message Romney has been pushing since he landed in the state. But that meant he also had to talk about banks and he continued whats become a habit of comparing companies to people.
Romney was standing outside a Fannie Mae-foreclosed home in a struggling neighborhood telling a small crowd why theyre having so much trouble. In this case, its because of the banks, he explained. Well, the banks arent bad people. Theyre just overwhelmed right now ...
The banks are scared to death, of course, he said. Theyre feeling the same thing that youre feeling. And so they just want to pretend that all this is just going to get paid some day.
Both comments echoed the now-famous line Romney delivered from a hay bale at the Iowa state fair: Corporations are people, my friend!
The Banks. People. With Feelings. Let Mitt explain it to you.
"They just want to pretend that all this is just going to get paid some day.
Translation: 'You're going to lose your house!'.
mdmc
(29,068 posts)all that money and he just can't get it together
denem
(11,045 posts)Gave Obama an attack ad instead.
CurtEastPoint
(18,643 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)edit to say - no human being could possibly be any more out of touch with the spirit of our times than Mitt Romney.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)out of their homes...
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)For 1.5years to equal it. Make that your argument. Also my taxes are 3 times greater
muntrv
(14,505 posts)MjolnirTime
(1,800 posts)Ravens Light
(11 posts)I can't believe he would say something like tha...
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00000286
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denem
(11,045 posts)Is that a donation in your pocket or are you just glad so see me.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)When it's replayed during the GE, Bohner will finally be crying for sure.
denem
(11,045 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 25, 2012, 01:53 PM - Edit history (1)
They lose money - you lose your home
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)His head is all the way up there, isn't it?
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)nt